Obtaining permits, licenses, certificates
Obtaining permits, licenses, certificates
In order to start a business and officially work, it is often enough to simply register an enterprise or sole proprietorship in accordance with all legal requirements. However, there are types of activities and areas of business that require a license. As stated in the Law “On Licensing of Certain Types of Economic Activity”, there are about 60 such types of activity. These are mainly production, industrial spheres, the sphere of service provision. In the mentioned law, you can find a complete list of activities that are subject to licensing in our country. Therefore, if you are planning to start your own business, be sure to carefully study the legislation on licensing.
Licensing and certification are designed to draw special attention to certain activities and goods. Free market relations involve control by the state of some types of activity, primarily entrepreneurial A license is a prerequisite for doing business in many specific areas. The document has a form established by the state and allows you to legally engage in certain types of business. There is a certain protocol for obtaining an official permit, which includes paying a state duty, preparing a package of papers and passing a series of checks.
Types of activities for obtaining a license in Ukraine
The following types of activities are subject to licensing:
- lending;
- insurance;
- electric energy;
- veterinary medicine;
- sale of alcoholic beverages;
- arms trade;
- production, installation and maintenance of medical equipment;
- notary services;
- television and radio broadcasting;
- pharmaceutical, security, educational, medical activities;
- passenger and cargo transportation.
Licenses are used in patent and copyright law. Here, the license agreement states that the owner of the rights (patent) to the invention or author’s work allows another person to use it, and the user undertakes to monitor the receipt by the patent owner of all rewards and payments due by law.
Lawyers of ICC Bondar will help to understand the complex legal regulations regarding licensing, certification and obtaining the necessary permits. They will advise on all issues, tell about all the stages of obtaining a license and help collect the necessary documentation. Specialists can also help determine the types of work you plan to do and for which you need to obtain a license. This point is very important, because adding new types of activities to an existing license is the same procedure in terms of complexity and duration as obtaining a license for the first time
Obtaining permits and certificates
Licenses and certificates: permission for some types of business
You may also need to obtain permits to carry out activities. According to the current legislation, permission is obtained
- at the start of construction,
- carrying out works of increased danger,
- trading activities and some others.
The list of types of hazardous work for which the mandatory permit procedure is provided can be viewed in the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine N1107 dated October 26, 2011 “On Approval of the Procedure for Issuing Permits for Performing High-Danger Works and for the Operation (Use) of Machines, Mechanisms, equipment of increased danger”.
Licensing and certification in business is the obtaining of special permits that clearly regulate the conditions and requirements that the state imposes on the enterprise’s activities in one direction or aFirst of all, these are industries in which work is related to health and danger to people’s lives. It can also be an activity that affects national interests, for example, from the development of minerals.
You can start practical work only after obtaining a license, otherwise there is a risk of incurring administrative and sometimes criminal liability.
Standards for obtaining licenses and certificates
The quality characteristics of products and services are determined by an independent organization that issues a corresponding document called a certificate. Management system, personnel, certain works can also be evaluated.
Unlike licensing, certification can be both mandatory and voluntary. Many companies, in order to increase the level of trust in their goods and services on contractual terms, invite independent experts who establish compliance of certification objects with state and international requirements. However, there is a list of goods for which it is mandatory to go through this procedure and obtain the corresponding document.
The main task solved by licensing and certification is the protection of consumers from goods and services of inappropriate quality, ensuring the safety of products for human life, health, and the natural environment.
All permits have an expiration date, after which you will need to renew your license. For example, the term of validity of a building license issued for the first time is 3 years, and for a second one – 5 years. In some cases, when, for example, the company that received the license changed its name or director, it will be necessary to reissue the license
The procedure for reissuing or extending a license, in particular a construction license, does not differ in its essence from the initial obtaining of a license.
Lawyers of ICC Bondar are ready to help you so that the procedure for issuing permit documentation or a license does not take a lot of time and effort. We have more than 15 years of experience in the field of obtaining permits and licenses and know all the nuances of this procedure. If you plan to carry out licensing of certain types of activities, we are ready to provide advice, familiarize you with all stages of licensing, prepare the necessary documents and obtain a permit or license as quickly as possible.