Presentation of Company Reports in an Electronic Form and Provision of Their Accessibility (GE0062)

Presentation of company reports in an electronic form and provision of their accessibility; In the framework of this commitment, presentation of electronic reports by enterprises will allow the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission to: create a trustworthy database, conduct a multi-sided analysis of the information obtained, keep an eye on the dynamics of the enterprise indicators, monitor fulfillment of licensing conditions and in the shortest possible time to provide stakeholders with systematized information. Introduction of the electronic report system will assist companies and facilitate efficient application of the Commission administrative resources and information accessibility. The aim of the commitment is to create a special electronic platform of report submission by enterprises in order to ensure mobility and transparency of the mentioned process. Date of Implementation: 2016-2017; Issues to be Addressed: Currently enterprises submit reports about their activities to the Commission in a hard copy only (document shall have a signature of a relevant head or responsible person before its submission). This fact somehow complicates processing and systematization of the information in the shortest possible time. Main Objective: Develop a form and system of report submission by the enterprises that will provide the Commission with detail and complete information electronically so that the information will be processed and publicly accessible.

21. Presentation of company reports in an electronic form and provision of their accessibility

Commitment Text:

In the framework of this commitment, presentation of electronic reports by enterprises will allow the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission to: create a trustworthy database, conduct a multi-sided analysis of the information obtained, keep an eye on the dynamics of the enterprise indicators, monitor fulfillment of licensing conditions and in the shortest possible time to provide stakeholders with systematized information. Introduction of the electronic report system will assist companies and facilitate efficient application of the Commission administrative resources and information accessibility.

The aim of the commitment is to create a special electronic platform of report submission by enterprises in order to ensure mobility and transparency of the mentioned process.

Responsible institution(s): Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission

Supporting institution(s): None

Start date: Not provided ...... End date: December 2017

Commitment Aim:

The Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC) committed to introduce a normative act, which would allow licensees to submit company reports electronically. The GNERC wanted to improve systematization of information submitted by companies as reports were submitted in hard copy. Electronic submissions would simplify systematization of the information and allow more efficient data analysis.

Status

Midterm: Complete

By the midterm, the commitment was fully implemented. The electronic platform for report submissions was launched in January 2017. GNERC adopted necessary normative acts for electronic report submission by licensees. According to a GNERC representative, this system was fully functional, and companies could submit their quarterly and yearly reports in electronic format. However, until July 2018, companies still had to submit hard copies as well, before the Law of Georgia on Electronic Documents and Reliable Electronic Service-Provision came into force. This law’s enactment enables GNERC to officially accept company reports in electronic form. [99] For more information, please see the 2016–2017 IRM midterm report. [100] 

Did It Open Government?

Access to information: Did Not Change

Civic participation: Did not change

Public accountability: Did not change

The GNERC changed regulations to allow electronic submission of company reports, which enables more efficient data systematization and analysis. The commitment was a big step forward in optimizing internal processes of the GNERC. However, the initiative is fully internally oriented and does not publicly disclose more information.

Carried Forward?

The commitment was not carried into the new Action Plan 2018−2019.

[100] Lasha Gogidze and Tamar Gzirishvili, Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM): Georgia Progress Report 2016-2017 (OGP, 30 Apr. 2018), https://bit.ly/2NIr097.