Improving Air Quality Instruments and Vehicle Emission Standards in Georgia

Air pollution is a major health concern for Europeans. Georgia ranks third in the world (according to WHO data from 2016) in terms of mortality attributed to indoor and outdoor pollution, which, globally, causes more than seven million premature deaths each year.

In 1999 Georgia adopted the Law on Environmental Air Protection, which has among its objectives to ‘support the gradual adoption, on the territory of Georgia, of the legal standards established in the EU, in the field of environmental air protection against pollution’.

In the 2014 EU-Georgia Association Agreement Chapter 3 on environmental policy includes air quality as one of its commitments. The EU is deeply committed to strengthening its ties with Georgia, driven by a shared concern for environmental well-being, in particular in relation to air quality, and the health of its citizens.

In this context, the EU's Green Connectivity Programme for Georgia envisages concrete actions to improve air quality in Georgia through a range of activities including investments and projects.

FIIAPP and SAIDC (Slovak Agency for International Development Cooperation) jointly implement a project, which plans to: improve air quality management instruments, air quality monitoring, implement EU vehicle emission standards, and reduce air pollution to better protect the health of citizens in Georgia.

This action focuses on improving air quality in Georgia to protect the health of its citizens. To this end, it will strengthen its administration's capacities for monitoring, analysis and regulation of the air quality sector, considering that ambient air pollution is one of the country's most serious environmental challenges.

Project objectives

General objective

Contribute to the improvement of air quality to better protect the health of Georgian citizens.

Specific objective

Fortalecer la capacidad de las instituciones ambientales de Georgia para mejorar los instrumentos de calidad del aire y los estándares de emisiones de vehículos.

Contribución del proyecto a los ODS