The Foreign Agents Law

The Parliament of Georgia has already adopted and is introducing laws that will significantly complicate, even endanger our work.


Enforced from August 2024, the foreign agents law (officially the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence) requires non-commercial organizations and media outlets to register in a special state registry of “organizations bearing the interests of a foreign power” if at least 20% their income comes from foreign sources. For refusal to register, excessively high fines will be applied.


The law authorizes the Ministry of Justice to monitor and request any kind of information, including personal data, from civil society and media organizations, any time on the basis of a decision of a state official or based on an anonymous letter/notification by anyone.


The legislation bears similarities to the laws currently in effect in Russia and Belarus.

The law poses a threat to the work of DOCA, similar to most civil society organizations in Georgia, classifying them as "agents of a foreign country". Some production companies, that are registered as non-commercial entities, might also be labeled so.