Dear Nika,

Thanks for your e-mail,

Unfortunately it’s not possible to provide this information in such a short notice and particularly taking into account that XXXI Annex of the AA (Public Health) falls under the Dynamic Approximation with the EU and number of the respective EU Directives and Regulations from the Annex has already been changed within the EU acquis and the process of updating the AA (XXXI Annex) is underway. Together with the MOH, we launched consultations with the EU regarding update of the XXXI Annex which also involves update of the terms for implementation. Despite the fact that Annex was verbally agreed even before start of Pandemics, we have not yet received any feedback from the EU services regarding the father steps. As you might note, this issue was subject of discussion at the end of the latest Sub-Committee meeting.

For more clarity, I am attaching the XXXI Annex (Clean/initial) and also the one with applicable changes agreed with the EU. As for the indicative timelines, you will find them within the Annex itself: - for instance where there is an indication that “Directive's provisions shall be implemented within six years of the entry into force of this Agreement” that means it should have been met in 2020. Changes are mainly apply to those provisions which terms has run out and new implementation terms has to be defined after update of the annex.

Best regards,

David

Dear David,

I hope you are doing well and sage the colleagues  in DG SANTE asked us to provide  them with indicative timeline for the legislative alignment checks to be performed for Georgia in relation to the Association Agreement (AA) and the domain of Public health acquis foreseen in 2021-2022.