The European Commission releases a report on visa liberalization.

" The Commission considers that since then Georgia has made the necessary progress and

undertaken all the required reforms to ensure effective and sustainable achievement of the

remaining benchmarks. All the measures identified in the third progress report have been

taken. The legislative and policy framework, the institutional and organizational principles,

and the implementation of procedures throughout the four blocks comply with European and

international standards.

Based on this assessment, and given the outcome of the continuous monitoring and reporting

carried out since the launch of the EU-Georgia Visa Liberalization Dialogue in June 2012, the

Commission considers that Georgia meets all the benchmarks set in respect of the four

blocks of the second phase of the VLAP. Taking into account overall relations between the

EU and Georgia, the Commission will present, early 2016, a legislative proposal to amend

Regulation (EC) No 539/2001.

The Commission will continue actively to monitor Georgia"s continuous implementation

of all benchmarks under the four blocks of the VLAP through the existing association

structures and dialogues, and, if necessary, through ad hoc follow-up mechanisms, "- is stated in the report.