The Open Governance Permanent Parliamentary Council and the Advisory Group heard the report on implementation of the 3rd action plan and the commitments and activities of the action plan for 2018-2019.

The meeting was attended by the Secretary General of the Parliament, Mr. Givi Mikanadze and the Deputy, Shota Goshadze.

In summer, 2018 the Parliament has endorsed the 3rd open governance action plan. According to the Chair of the Council, Irina Pruidze, the plan is quite an ambitious with many commitments for the Parliament to become more open and to allow the society being better involved in the Parliamentary activity. “We will formulate sundry working groups to work on the commitments”, - she noted.

According to the Chair of the Procedural Issues Committee, Giorgi Kakhiani, the openness plan has become the integral part of the national openness action plan. “I believe that we will be as successful in fulfillment of this action plan as for the preceding action plans. Georgia is considered as one of the leading countries in terms of the Parliamentary Action Plan at the international forums amongst all the states participating in this process”, - he mentioned.

Sundry commitments under the action plan are already reflected in the new Rules of Procedure. “It concerns the Parliamentary openness, public involvement in legislative activity, budgetary process and the Code of Conduct, namely the Rules of Procedure reflects the set-up of the Council of Ethics and the Parliament will also discuss adoption of the Code of Conduct”.