A license means a certain document that gives the right to carry out a separate activity for its owner. This document is issued by the state licensing inspectorate.
According to the Civil Code, for the implementation of specific groups of activities, a special permit granted by the state is required. The license serves as such permission. In accordance with the law, about a hundred different types of activities fall under the licensed activity.
In addition, the law defines 19 more types of activities that are not covered by its effect. Licensing in relation to such companies is carried out in a special order. Such areas of activity include: banking, notary, foreign economic and other activities.
It is the license that serves as a special permit for the implementation of a certain type of activity, with the obligatory observance of all licensing conditions and requirements.
At the same time, licensed types of entrepreneurial activities include those groups of activities for which preliminary approval by the licensing authority is required. After all, its implementation can harm: the legitimate interests, rights, defense or security of the state, the health of citizens, the cultural heritage of the people of the Russian Federation.
In turn, getting a type of activity on the list of licensed activities will mean that its implementation is possible only after obtaining permission from a state body. Otherwise, an entrepreneur or a legal entity may be brought to administrative or even criminal liability.
At the same time, bans have been established for individual entrepreneurs to engage in certain types of activities. As a rule, these types of activities include: development, sale and production of dual-use or military products, circulation of poisons and drugs, etc.
