Resumption of economic activities for business sector

Due to the nationwide state of emergency, restrictions were imposed on economic activities as well. In order to safely, swiftly and sustainably renew the economic activities, on 24 of March,2020, the general and detailed sectorial recommendations on the prevention of the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at workplace have been elaborated and is still developing, based on the economic needs.

In parallel with the dissemination of information, the companies, with an intention to renew economic activities have been inspected in advance after registration their activities in the electronic program of the MoIDPLHSA. The inspection process from 27^th of April is managed and coordinated  by the Labour Conditions Inspections Department (LCID) with support of the specially created electronic platform, by which the tasks are automatically distributed over the respective administrative bodies responsible for the monitoring of compliance with recommendations. All the daily inspections are accumulated in LCID and the results of the inspected facilities are made together with inspectors after investigation one by one.  Apart from the Labour Conditions Inspection Department of the MoIDPLHSA the following governmental entities are involved in the process of  inspection and monitoring of business sector activities: Municipal services, LEPL Social Service Agency, Department of Environmental Supervision, LEPL National Food Agency, LEPL Revenue Service, LEPL Technical and Construction Supervision Agency, LEPL Regulation Agency for Medical and Pharmaceutical Activities. 

Before the inspection management process was organized by MOESD, 520 companies were inspected in cooperation with the LEPL Technical and Supervision Agency. From May 1 to June 13, 2020 the recommendatory inspections carried out in advance, a total of 11 520 business facilities were inspected on the basis of these measures from which  4048 facilities were satisfied, 2494 facilities weren’t satisfied, 4628 facilities weren’t ready for inspection. 25 sectoral Recommendations has been adopted and in the basis of the close cooperation with responsible state institutions and appropriate field business representatives there are still going the development of the recommendations. After proactive inspections and all the hundreds of awareness rising activities LCID started planned inspections, which is containing sanction mechanism under the regulations. For 15 of June the 26 facilities were inspected, from which 16 facilities were fined about 160000 Gel because of the violation of the norms.