Licensing of activities and licensing procedure

Licensing of entrepreneurial activities inThe Russian Federation is conducted on the basis of the requirements set forth in Law 99-FZ, where Part I contains a full list of business lines for which the registration of appropriate permits (licenses) is required. In the current version of the law, this list currently contains 49 names of such species.

It should be noted that legislation in this areathe region is becoming more liberal. The number of businesses subject to licensing is constantly decreasing. So, the previous version of the law contained a list of 105 items. It is also important that some of the provisions of this new law on the terms of the law are not fully enforced. This is because it takes time to take appropriate measures to exclude certain activities from the lists. The current version of the law provides that the licensing of activities in Russia, which are excluded from the list, is carried out on temporary orders of the Government of the Russian Federation.

The legal act No. 99-FZ, which regulateslicensing of activities, is enforceable in all cases where the law establishes the need for licensing, except for the following cases:

1) production of nuclear energy;

2) manufacture and turnover of alcohol-containing materials and alcohol;

3) actions to protect state secrets;

4) credit activity;

5) exchange activity;

6) operations with assets;

7) the activities of investment funds and specialized depositories and their management;

8) work of pension funds;

9) clearing activity;

10) implementation of insurance services.

For these lines of businessbusiness special procedures are provided. They are established by specially developed and adopted normative acts. In addition, the licensing of activities in certain areas can be carried out in accordance with other legislative acts of the Russian Federation, in particular, the provision of communication services, radio and television broadcasting, access to Internet networks, detective and security activities, and the provision of educational services. The succession of legislative acts is ensured by the provision of Act No. 99-FZ stating that licensing of types of activities not mentioned in it ceases immediately from the moment the law comes into force.

As provided by law, licensing of speciesactivity begins with the preparation of documents for the registration of a license, which has an indefinite nature. Moreover, if the rules and terms of licensing were changed during the validity of the license that has already been received, then after the expiration of its validity period, only those licensed in accordance with the new law should be reissued. It also establishes that any information on licensing documents is open and must be provided on demand no later than five days after the date of the request.

To establish the reliability of information andverification of documents submitted by the applicant for the licensing of activities is given 45 days from the moment the licensing body receives documents from the applicant. The procedure for licensing and issuing relevant documents is universal and extends to the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The law does not establish any simplification with regard to its passage. In the course of the procedure, which provides for the licensing of certain types of entrepreneurial activity, the documents that the applicant submitted to the licensing authority are inspected, as well as the visits of representatives of this body together with the employees of the prosecutor's office to further acquaintance with the circumstances of the declared business.