Order No. 538 of the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources on the approval of methods for calculating damage to the environment. Country/Territory Georgia Document type Regulation Date 2006 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Environmental fees/charges Offences/penalties Geographical area Asia, Black Sea, Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, Western Asia Abstract This Order establishes the procedure of calculation of the damage of environment caused by the violation of legal norms provided for by the acting legislation, which stipulates the damage caused by the application of natural resources and/or in the process of industrial activity and income which is not received by the State and which would have been received in case of proper implementation of legal norms established by the legal acts of Georgia. Action of the methods shall be applied on the objects of regulation, which on the whole territory of Georgia, including territorial waters, airspace, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf are providing the application of natural resources, or/and any economic and industrial activity effecting the environmental conditions. Calculation of the damage caused to the environment takes place in each case when by the authorized organ on the real damage caused to the environment resulting from the violation of legal norms with the action (inaction) taken by the regulating object became known. Full text English