The Law of Ukraine On Licensing of Certain Types of Economic Activity

As amended by the Laws of Ukraine
N 1969-III of September 21, 2000,
N 2120-III of December 7, 2000,
N 2209-III of January 11, 2001,
N 2257-III of February 8, 2001,
N 2344-III of April 5, 2001,
N 2628-III of July 11, 2001,
N 2664-III of July12, 2001,
N 2745-III of October 4, 2001,
N 2759-III of October 4, 2001,
N 2905-III of December 20, 2001,
N 2953-III of January 17, 2002,
N 2984-III of January 17, 2002,
N 3073-III of March 7, 2002,
N 3077-III of March 7, 2002,
N 380-IV of December 26, 2002,
N 411-IV of December 26, 2002,
N 546-IV of February 20, 2003

(On January 16, 2003, the present law will be amended according to
the Commercial Code of Ukraine N 436-IV of January 16, 2003)

This Law shall specify the types of economic activity subject to licensing, the procedure of their licensing and establish the state control in the sphere of licensing, as well as responsibilities of subjects of economic activity and licensing bodies for violation of legislation in the sphere of licensing.

Article 1. Definition of Terms

Terms in this Law shall be used in the following meaning:

cancellation of the license – deprivation of licensee of a right to conduct a certain type of economic activity;

production (manufacture) – activities, directed at production of goods, which include all stages of manufacturing process, as well as sales of goods of own production;

economic activity- any activity, including entrepreneurial activity, of legal entities and physical persons- subjects of entrepreneurial activity, related to the production (manufacture) of goods, trade, providing services, execution of works;

licensee – a subject of economic activity, obtaining a license for performing certain economic activity subject to licensing;

license – document of a state standard, certifying the licensee’s right to conducting economic activity, specified in this document, within the established term under condition of fulfillment of terms of licensing;

terms of licensing – an exhaustive list of organizational, qualification and other special requirements, established with observance of requirements, determined by laws, which are compulsory for execution while conducting economic activities subject to licensing;

licensing – issuing, reissuing and cancellation of licenses, issuing of license duplicates, performing of license files and registers of licenses, as well as supervision of observance of terms of licensing by licensees, issuing of directives on removal of violations of terms of licensing terms and directives to remove violation of legislation in the sphere of licensing;

body of licensing – body of executive power, established by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine or a specially authorized executive body of councils for licensing certain types of economic activity;

license fee – one-off payment, made by a subject of economic activity for obtaining of the license;

repeated violation – repeated violation of certain terms of licensing by a licensee within the validity period of the license after application of sanctions for a similar violation;

directive to remove violations of terms of licensing – decision of a licensing body or a specially authorized licensing body on the necessity to remove violations of terms of licensing by the licensee within the established terms;

directive to remove violations of legislation in the sphere of licensing – decision of a specially authorized licensing body on the necessity to remove violations of legislation in the sphere of licensing by the licensee or a licensing body within the established terms;

subject of economic activity –a legal entity, registered according to the specified procedure, which performs economic activity irrespective of its organizational-and-legal form and form of ownership, except bodies of state power and bodies of local government, as well as physical person – subject of entrepreneurial activity;

trade – any transactions, carried out according to the agreements on sales and purchase, barter, delivery and other civil-and-legal agreements, providing for the transference of right of ownership to products;

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