Tbilisi. Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) published an information about Organizations Exempt from the Environmental Impact Assessment (2010-2013).

IDFI received the list of organizations that are unrestricted from the Environmental Impact Assessment in 2010-2013 from the Ministry of Environmental and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia along with  the copies of the applications of the mentioned organizations requesting the permit for the Environmental Impact Assessment,  submitted to the Ministry.

"Based on the received set of documents, in 2010-2013, in total,  24 projects were unrestricted from the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and majority of the Project (12 projects) were given permission in  2012, the projects which had been producing asphalt and explosive substances".

Source:idfi.ge