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The International Relations and Mutual Legal
Assistance Unit carries out its functions according to the
regulation of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia and the regulation of the
Public International Law Department adopted by the Minister of Justice.
While carrying out the functions the Public International Law Department is
guided by the domestic as well as the international (multilateral, bilateral
agreements) legislative acts.
Namely:
International legislative acts:
1.
European Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, Strasbourg,
20 April 1959 and It’s Additional Protocol.
2. Convention on legal assistance and legal affairs in civil, family and
criminal matters, Minsk, 22 January 1993.
3.
European Convention on Information on Foreign Law, London, 7 June 1968.
4. Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction,
Hague, 25 October 1980.
5.
European Agreement on the Transmission of Applications for Legal Aid,
Strasbourg, 1 January 1977.
Bilateral treaties on mutual legal assistance in civil, family and
criminal matters:
1. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Bulgaria
on mutual legal assistance in civil matters;
2. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Azerbaijan
on legal assistance and legal affairs in civil, family and criminal matters;
3. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Armenia on
legal assistance in civil matters;
4. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and Turkmenistan on mutual
legal assistance in civil and criminal matters;
5. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine on legal
assistance and legal affairs in civil and criminal matters;
6. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Turkey on
mutual legal assistance in civil, trade and criminal matters;
7. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Uzbekistan
on legal assistance and legal affairs in civil, family and criminal matters;
8. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and Greece on legal assistance
in civil and criminal matters;
9. The treaty between the Republic of Georgia and the Republic of Kazakhstan
on mutual legal assistance in civil and criminal matters.
Internal legislative acts:
1. Law of Georgia on “Cooperation between the International Criminal Court
and Georgia”;
2. Law of Georgia on “Private International Law”;
3. Other Legislative Acts
The main functions of the Public International Law Department are:
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With the aim of rendering
legal assistance in civil, family and criminal matters examining the
applications, letters and motions of Georgian and foreign natural and
legal persons; organization of transferring them to the relevant organs
and their final fulfilment;
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Preparing treaties on legal
assistance and organization of their fulfilment;
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Organization of enforcement
of decisions rendered by foreign judicial organs;
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Provision of cooperation
between the foreign justice bodies;
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Cooperation with the
International Criminal Court.
The International Relations
and Mutual Legal Assistance Unit takes part in the work of the following
committees and sub-committees of the Council of Europe:
European Committee on Legal Co-operation (CDCJ);
Project Group on Administrative Law (CJ-DA);
Group of Specialists on Nationality (CJ-S-NAT);
Committee of Experts on Remand in Custody and its Implications for the
Management of Penal Institutions (PC-DP);
Committee of Experts on the Treatment of Sex Offenders in Penal Institutions
and in the Community (PC-DS);
Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH);
Committee of Experts for
the Improvement of Procedures of the Protection of Human Rights (DH-PR)
Committee of Experts for
the Development of Human Rights (DH-DEV)
Committee of
Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the
Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL)
Group of States against
Corruption (GRECO)
Committee of experts on family law
(CJ-FA)
Monitoring Committees:
Europeen Comittee for the Prevention of
Torture (CPT)
European Commission
against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
International Criminal Court:
Cooperation with the International
Criminal Court
International Child Abduction:
Implementation of the Hague 1980
Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
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