Parliament passed with its third and final reading on June 29 constitutional amendment according to which lawmakers will have to adopt an organic law to define special status of planned new city, Lazika, on Georgia’s Black Sea coast.
The organic law has yet to be drafted.
President Saakashvili, who first announced about the idea to build the country’s “second largest city” between Anaklia, close to breakaway Abkhazia, and Kulevi in the north from port town of Poti in December, said on June 15, that English law system would be introduced in Lazika for commercial transactions, instead of a codified civil law, which Georgia’s legal system is based on.