Governmental Order No. 456 regarding validation of the list of lines of activities subject to special permit (licence) and institutions authorized to issue such permits (licences)

On the List of Lines of Activities Subject to Special Permit (License) and Bodies to Issue Such Permits (Licenses) Decision of the Government of the Republic of Belarus № 456 of 21 August, 1995 (Decision contains all the later amendments and additions. Last amendments of this Decision: Decision of the Government of the Republic of Belarus № 277 of February 28, 2002) With the object of perfecting the state regulation of the activity of economic entities (legal entities and individuals), the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus decides: 1. To approve the list of lines of activity that require a special permit (a license), and bodies to issue such permits (licenses), hereinafter, the List. 2. To establish that all special permits (licenses) for the right to exercise the lines of activity enumerated in the List approved by the present Decision and which have been issued prior to this Decision, are valid within the entire period for which they have been granted. 3. Ministries and other central bodies of administration, oblast executive committees and Minsk City Executive Committee, state concerns should: in accordance with the List, by 1st October 1995, to introduce amendments (as required) into legislation in force which regulates licensing of all lines of activity under their responsibility; to ensure bringing this Decision to the notice of, and abiding by, all the enterprises and organizations within their jurisdiction. 3-1. To establish that special permits (licenses) to exercise separate line of activities associated with specific goods (works, services) shall be issued by the republican bodies of state administration, on the ground of a decision made by the Interagency Commission for Military and Technical co-operation and Export Supervision under the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus. 4. To recognize the decisions of the Government according to the list attached to be invalid. Approved by Decision of the Government of the Republic of Belarus № 456 of August 21, 1995 List of Lines of Activities Subject to Special Permit (License) and Bodies to Issue Such Permits (Licenses) National Bank Banking activity, in accordance with the List of lines of activities which, in conformity with legislation, are subject to licensing External audit of banks and non-banking financial (credit-and-financial) organizations. Ministry of Architecture and Construction Design and survey *1) activity for construction, development, reconstruction and capitalized repairs of I and II Liability Class objects/sites (including design works associated with the reconstruction and preservation of historical and cultural monuments), residential houses (blocks) of all types, as well as the working out of urban development and design and laying-out documentation Execution of construction and erection and special works (with exception of projects works on which are to be licensed by other ministries and other central bodies of administration) Production of glass bottles intended for bottling, storage and transportation of alcoholic beverages Exercise of engineering supervision under construction *1) Licenses for surveying activity shall be issued subject to availability of a license to conduct topographic-and-geodesic works in the territories assigned for development Ministry of Foreign Affairs excluded Foreign trade activity with regard to specific goods (works, services) Provision of paid services on establishing and registration of enterprises, representation offices and branches in foreign states; opening of accounts in foreign banks Ministry of Internal Affairs Manufacture of seals and stamps *2) Production, sale and repair of cold non-military steels (weapon), hunting, sport-oriented and gas weaponry, including gas containers, and ammunition thereto Detective activity Operation, maintenance and control of fire-hazardous and highly explosive production facilities and sites of mass gathering; a list thereof should be determined by the Chief Fire-fighting Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Design, assembly, adjustment and technical maintenance of automated fire-fighting equipment and anti-smoke protection Conduction of tests of substances, materials, articles, equipment and building constructions for fire hazard and fire-resistance Organisation and functioning of (sub) units meant for fire prevention and extinguishing at enterprises, in establishments and organizations Production and capitalized repair of fire-fighting technique (vehicles and equipment), outfit/tackle and accoutrement, rescue property, individual protection apparatuses, fire extinguishers, fire-suppressing substances and other fire-protection facilities; trading in such products Production of flame-resistance substances and fulfillment of works with their utilization Training and further retraining of drivers of transport vehicles Manufacture and repair of stove heating systems Scientific, technical, expertise and consulting activities in the field of fire safety *2) With the exception of military units and agencies of the Ministry of Defense, State Security Committee and Chief Frontier Troops Administration, for which the procedure of seal and stamp manufacture is determined by the said central bodies of power Association “Okhrana” (Guards) Under the Ministry of Internal Affairs Guarding their personnel on the staff by the state bodies, enterprises, establishments, organizations, irrespective of forms of ownership Guarding by the state bodies, enterprises, establishments, organizations, irrespective of forms of ownership, of objects (property) belonging thereto Design engineering, installation, adjustment and maintenance of guard means and systems (except of individual facilities) Ministry of Public Health Medical activity in the lines of activity approved by the Ministry of Public Health Pharmaceutical activity in the lines of activity approved by the Ministry of Public Health Production, sale (bulk and retail), installation, adjustment, maintenance and repair of medical equipment articles and medical-oriented items Education, post-diploma training and professional development of specialists of medical and pharmaceutical profiles at higher and secondary educational establishments (subdivisions) by the lines of activity to be approved by the Ministry of Public Health, subject to the availability of a license of the Ministry of Education for organization of a corresponding educational establishment (sub-units) Training and professional development of specialists in courses of medical profile according to the line of activity approved by the Ministry of Public Health Ministry of Housing Facilities and Public Utilities Operation and maintenance of networks, constructions, structures and equipment facilities of water supply and water allotment services Ministry of Culture Production of cinema and video products (shooting), copying and display and hire thereof excluded Import to the territory of the Republic of Belarus for sale, as well as production for sale and dissemination of, products of erotic character Ministry of Forestry Logging Soft resin procurement Sap Procurement Sawing and planing production Ministry of Defense Development, production, marketing and repair of armaments and ammunitions, means of protection, military equipment and spare parts thereto, completing items and devices, if they are not used in other sectors, as well as special materials and special equipment for production of the same Development, production, marketing and repair of space rocket complexes, telecommunication and control systems thereto Elimination (destruction, utilization, burial) and re-mediation of obsolete military and technical means and ammunition, development of special technologies and equipment for the purpose Carrying out research-and-development works and fundamental exploratory studies to create armaments and military technique Ministry of Education Organization of colleges, vocational and secondary specialized and higher educational establishments, as well as educational establishments (structures) for retraining and professional improvement of personnel, with the exception of educational establishments organized by the bodies of state administration of the Republic of Belarus Ministry of State Property Management and Privatization Operation of a specialized investment fund accumulating registered privatization cheques "IMUSCHESTVO" (Property) Organization and running auctions and bidding for selling property rights and other objects of state property Provision of realtor services when making deals involving objects of property Expert works for estimation of property introduced as non-money contribution to the statutory fund of the legal person* *for the objects of intellectual property –at presence of the license of the State Patent Committee Committee on Readjustment and Bankruptcy under the Ministry of State Property Management and Privatization Activity as a manager in cases on economic insolvency (bankruptcy) (code of the Common Classifier of Sorts of Economic Activities, Productions, Services - 74119) Ministry of Emergencies and Protection of Population from the Consequences of the Disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station Control and monitoring of radioactive contamination of the environment, alimentary products, and articles of household Committee for Supervision of Safe operations in Industry and Nuclear Power Engineering *3) Development, production, reprocessing, storage, transportation (including transit), sale of industrial explosive substances Production, storage, extraction, application, transportation (including transit), utilization (re mediation) of radioactive materials and products based thereon, as well as transportation (including transit), storage (warehousing) and burial of radioactive wastes Design, construction, manufacture, assembling, adjustment, diagnostics, operation, repair and servicing of radiation devices and installations, object of nuclear power engineering, as well as production of technological equipment therefore and means of radiation protection Design, production, installation, start-up and setting up, diagnostics, operation and repair of object under the supervision of the boiler supervision inspectorate, loading and tackling machinery and structures, high-pressure equipment and instruments, mine lifting mechanisms, mining, geological prospecting, oil-extracting, bore-welling, metal smelting and casting equipment, equipment and installation for mining and chemical production and processes, with possible formation of explosion-hazardous media Design, construction, operation of production facilities and sites, with possible formation of highly explosive media (mixture of gases, vapors and dust with air and other oxidants; substances prone to transformation by explosion), as well as production facilities and sites with dangerous substances, storage and transportation (including transit) of the same Design, construction, installation, adjustment, operation and repair of gas-supply equipment and systems; production of articles therefore Design of mining production facilities and sites of excavation of minerals, including fresh and mineral subterranean water, therapeutic mud, as well as special underground structures not associated with mining of minerals Professional training through the system of vocational training, at enterprises and in organizations, private educational establishments of personnel of entities and productions under supervision *4) Mining of minerals (with exclusion of peat and sapropelles, or pond mud) Construction and/or operation of underground structures, not associated with minerals mining *3) With the exception of sites and objects of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Chief Administration of Frontier Troops which are subject to control of respective services of the above-mentioned bodies of power. *4) With the exception of the activities to be licensed by the Ministry of Education and Science Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Protection Treatment, burial (warehousing) and transportation of toxic wastes of production and consumption, as well as pesticides (subject to the availability of an expert conclusion of the Ministry of Public Health) Marketable procurement (purchasing) of growing-wild plants/herbs (their parts), mushrooms, technical and official raw materials of vegetable nature or their industrial processing and sale Utilization of wild animals (with the exception of fish stock) Production, storage, use in economic activity, recycling, utilization of ozone-depleting substances in accordance with the List of substances subject to regulation agreed by the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Ozone-Depleting Substances of 16th September 1987 Geological study of mineral wealth (survey and prospecting of deposit fields, preparation of prospective sites for construction, development and exploitation of underground structures (not associated with mining) Production of peat and sapropelles (pond mud), collection of mineralogical, paleonthological and other unique geological materials Committee for Fish Resources Protection Marketable fishing and catch of aqueous invertebrates, as well as the organization amateur fishing on a payment basis State Committee on Land Resources, Geodesy and Cartography Establishment (reconstruction) of land-plot borders for owners, landowners and land users, as well as protected territories Fulfillment of topographic and geodetic, cartographic and air-photographic works, as well as edition of maps Ministry of Industry Production of TV-sets Production of intricate radio-electronic apparatuses and its units, their maintenance and repair, with the exception of operations for internal use Manufacture of cash registers, technical maintenance and repair thereof Manufacture of electronic scales, their technical servicing and repair Production of instruments for measuring control and adjustment of water, gas and power consumption (supply), their technical servicing and repair Production of corking materials to seal glass bottles intended for bottling, storage and transportation of alcoholic beverages Selling by legal entities and individual enterpreneurs of tractors being produced in the Republic of Belarus providing that such legal entities and individual enterpreneurs are not producers of such tractors Production of aluminum, lead, zinc, tin, copper. Molding of ready-made items and prepared raw materials made of aluminum and heavy non-ferrous metals Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Informatics Utilization of frequency resources and technical facilities with off-the-range radiation that are intended for free use Design, construction and operation of telecommunication and informatics networks, systems and constructions Provision of telecommunication services Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs Sowing, growing and sale of cultures containing drugs and toxic substances Veterinary practices Production of food spirits, alcohol-containing liquid food extracts, wine, beer, vodkas, liqueur and cognac and tobacco products Design, construction, operation and capitalized repair of hydro technical and amelioration structures Production, purchasing and selling of medicinal and preventive remedies for veterinary purposes Realization of a therapeutic and preventive complex of measures during infectious diseases of animals Processing and preserving of fish and fish products Processing and preserving of meat and meat products Production of dairy produce Ministry of Trade Import the tobacco goods Belarusian State Power Concern (In co-ordination with the Ministry of Economics) Installation, adjustment, diagnostics, repair and operation of power stations, block-stations and electrical networks, electro- and thermo-mechanical equipment (with the exception of objects and sites under the Boiler Supervision Inspectorate) for the same Belarusian State Concern on Oil and Chemistry (in co-ordination with the Ministry of Economics) Wholesale and retail trade in oil products Ministry of Transport and Lines of Communications Passenger and freight transportation (with the exception of in-house technological needs of an economic entity and city motor transportation) by road, river and sea, as well as carrier and expedition activity Construction, testing, maintenance, inspection, repair and reconstruction of waterways, artificial structures thereon, as well as engineering support of the same on water transport Assessment of motor and water vehicles (with the exception of those which are subject to vehicle declaration, in which case they are assessed by the Ministry of Transport and Lines of Communication in the established order specified in Decision of the Cou8ncil of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of 12th March 1997, ¹ 190 Committee on Motor Roads under the Ministry of Transport and Lines of Communications Execution of works associated with the construction, reconstruction repair and maintenance of motor roads of public use and artificial structures thereon Ministry of Labour State Migration Office under the Ministry of Labour Foreign labour power intake to the Republic of Belarus Provision of employment abroad for citizens of the Republic of Belarus Ministry of Finance Organization and administration of republican lotteries Organization and administration of local lotteries Auditing activity State Assay Supervision Inspectorate Using in production, treatment and processing, purchasing, selling, storage, diagnostics and assessment, expertise of noble metals and precious stones, jewels, pearls, amber of all types and conditions *5) Manufacture, including the placement of orders with other economic entities, repair (restoration) of jewelry, household and other items made of noble metals and precious stones, pearls, amber; trade in them, storage, pawning *5) Use of noble metals and their compounds only for analysis purposes and activation of printed-circuit boards is not subject to licensing. Committee on State Symbols Development and manufacture of state symbols, securities blank-forms and documents with a certain degree of protection, special materials for protection thereof from forgery Committee on Noble Metals Mining and extraction, collection, treatment (extraction) of noble metals and precious stones from scrap and wastes Mining, treatment and use of fumed oak, amber Securities Inspection Professional and exchange activity associated with securities, as well as with government securities Committee for Insurance Activity Inspection (under the Ministry of Finance) Insurance including free-will insurance, obligatory insurance and reinsurance *)(code of the Common Classifier of Sorts of Economic Activities, Productions, Services - 660) Insurance mediation, including selling of certificates "Green Card" *) (code of the Common Classifier of Sorts of Economic Activities, Productions, and Services - 67201) Audition of insurance organizations (code of the Common Classifier of Sorts of Economic Activities, Productions, Services - 74121) Committee for Insurance Activity Inspection under the Ministry of Finance shall issue a permit (license) for each type of free-will insurance, obligatory insurance and insurance mediation with indication of respective code of the Common Classifier of Sorts of Economic Activities, Productions, Services. Ministry of Economy excluded Ministry of Justice Private notary practice Solicitor practice and provision of legal services, with the exception of private notary practice, professional protection of rights and juridical rights of individuals and legal entities in criminal, civil cases and administrative offences in investigation and judicial bodies *6) Dissemination of legal information *6) When a license for advocate practice is issued, a legal services license is not required; however, the legal services license does not grant the right for advocate practice. Ministry of Social Security Delivery of pensions and benefits/grants Activity in the field of providing social services to families and certain categories of citizens State Committee on Printing Publishing activity Printing activity Production of labels, counter-labels, collerettes to be used for decorating bottles for storage and transportation of alcoholic products Ministry of Sport and Tourism Tour-operator activity Tour-agent activity Department for Humanitarian Activity at the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus Receipt and distribution of humanitarian aid Organization of health-improvement for children abroad State Customs Committee Exercising activity as a customs agent Exercising activity as a customs carrier Establishing of duty-free shops Organization of customs (bonded) warehouses Organization of temporary (appraiser's) stores State Committee on Aviation Administration and support of air transportation of passengers, luggage, fright and mail items on commercial bases Air vessels, passengers, luggage, freight and mail items servicing activity at airports and airfields Aircraft works to ensure needs of legal entities and individuals, including those to be performed in the air space of foreign states Activities to support aircraft works Preparation/training of specialists of adequate level, in accordance with the list of air service personnel positions Development, production and operation, technical servicing, current and capitalized repair of air vessels, aircraft engines and air screws, as well as their revamping, re-equipment, field follow in in accordance with technical bulletins of a designer and/or manufacturer Activity of public associations in the field of aviation to prepare specialists of adequate level, in accordance with the list of air service personnel positions, to ensure flights of general-purpose air vessels intended for sports, training, advertisement and other purposes State Center for Information Safety under the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Development, production, marketing, assembly, adjustment, servicing of hardware and software means for information protection and control of its security, special materials and equipment for production such means, soft- and hardware for protection against unauthorized access, including those with the use of cryptography. Special research on protection of technical facilities from leakage, works on detection of information unauthorized information tapping/pick off systems and control of its security State Security Committee Development, production/ marketing, operation and repair of code technique Committee on Archives and Office Work Preparation of an image of the Republic of Belarus National Emblem by polygraphy, made of metal, plaster-cast and other materials, as well as carved in wood, made by chasing/stamping and other three-dimensional forms Use of information from documents stored in the National Archive Fund of the Republic of Belarus and State Record Offices and Registries State Patent Committee Assessment of objects of intellectual property as part of nonmaterial assets State Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification Production, repair, calibration, sale and rental of measuring instrumentation State Committee for Energy Saving and Control Inspection of enterprises, establishments and organizations for power consumption and use Belarusian State Association for Stocking-up, Treatment and Delivery of Scrap and Wastes of Ferrous and Non-ferrous Metals Stocking-up (purchasing) of scrap and wastes of ferrous and non-ferrous metals (licenses are to be granted on co-ordination with the Ministry of Economics, on terms specified in decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of 31st July 1995, ¹ 403) Belarusian Republican Union of Public-utility Establishments Types of paid services to the people: repair, painting and making foot ware; repair and sewing of clothing, fur and leather articles, head ware and textile haberdashery items; repair and technical servicing of household machines and appliances; repair and manufacture of fabricated metal products; manufacture and repair of furniture; chemical cleaning and dyeing; laundry services; photographic atelier, photo- and film-development laboratory services, photographing in the open, making photos; hairdressing services; services of enterprises to hire items, excluding hire of cinema and video products Belarusian State Concern for Production and Selling Pharmaceutical and Microbiological Product The right to produce and wholesale trade, store (as a kind of free enterprise activity) rectified industrial ethyl alcohol, denatured ethyl alcohol; production of non-alimentary alcohol-containing products Regional and City *7) Executive Committees Retail trade and trade-and-production activities Retail trade in alcoholic products Retail trade in tobacco products Storage (as a kind of free enterprise activity) of alcoholic products Storage (as a kind of free enterprise activity) of tobacco products Organization of pawnshops 8*) Archaeological excavations (subject to the availability of an expert conclusion from the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus) Organization, administration and support of shooting-ranges/galleries, bowling-alleys, casino, machines for playing games, totalizator (per each object) Motor transport transportation and carriage within cities Sale of trucks and passenger buses by economic entities that are not manufacturers thereof Wholesale trade Oblast and Minsk City Executive Committees Organization of comprehensive schools, lyceums, gymnasiums, Sunday schools under educational establishments on co-ordination with the Republican State Inspection of the Educational System of the Republic of Belarus, as well as boarding schools for children, orphanages and social and pedagogic centers Rendering assistance to individuals in self-education in forms of "people" university, school, lecture-hall, national and cultural (other) center, and courses. Wholesale trade of alcoholic products Wholesale trade of tobacco goods Wholesale trade *9) *7) In cities/towns with division by districts, licenses shall be issued by city/town executive committees. *8) In case of dealing with noble metals, precious stones, jewelry, pearls, amber and articles made with them, availability of a license issued by the State Assay Supervision Inspection under the Ministry of Finance is an obligatory requirement *9) Licenses for wholesale trade shall be issued only by the Minsk City Executive Committee. * unofficial translation *