The Bill (Reg. No. 1364) reduces the list of types of business activities subject to licensing through relevant amendments to the Law ‘On Licensing of Certain Types of Business Activities´
and several special laws regulating the relations in question in individual business sectors.
The Committee agrees with the need to simplify the procedures giving a right for certain types of business activities, but, at the same time, emphasises the inadmissibility of some of provisions included in the Bill.
The People´s Deputies state that cancellation of licensing of several types of business activities violates the basic principles of the State Licensing Policy, endangers the environment, health and safety, and security of the State´. This applies to licensing of collection and metallurgical processing of ferrous/nonferrous scrap metals; collection, primary processing of waste and scrap precious metals and precious stones, precious stones of organogenic origin, semiprecious stones; import of chemical current sources; rearing of pets (dogs, cats, exotic and decorative animals) in breeding centres, training of dogs and training of experts in these areas; wholesale trade in seeds; carrying out topography, geodetic and mapping jobs, etc.
The Committee also stresses separately the inadmissibility of cancelling of licensing of topography, geodetic and mapping jobs, since traceability of geodetic measurements, correctness and accuracy of imaging of objects on-site, and their characteristics on topographic maps and plans require the compliance of their operators, with strict professional, organisational and technological requirements, which can be achieved through licensing of this type of activity. Cancellation of licensing can lead to negative consequences due to an incorrect presentation of state frontier lines, limits, gas and oil and product pipelines, a system of industrial, hydrotechnical and other engineering structures, subsurface communications, etc, which can above all put at risk the State security. Information on the operators in this case will be lost, making it impossible to effect supervision and monitoring of their activities, and result in the placement of large quantities of low quality products on the market.
The outcome of these discussions was that Committee members resolved to recommend to the Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship Committee that allowance should be made for these proposals when introducing the Bill on the Parliamentary floor, and during its preparation for the Second Reading,