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The system of delivery of licenses, certificates and permissions is not functioning as protection of people from dangerous goods anymore. It has become a mechanism of discrimination, the source of unfairness, excessive expenses and blocking creative potential and people’s initiatives. It has become an obstacle for the entrance to the market, first of all for those who need a job and additional earnings – the youth, women and having many children families. There is 90% of subjects of small- and medium-sized business which have to obtain different kinds of permission. At average a Belarusian enterprise has to obtain 6 permissions. They are delivered by 50 state bodies. They follow more then 200 laws. Obtaining 1 document takes around 2.5 months. General expenses for obtaining all the permissions make up around $1400. Even officials of regulating state bodies themselves cannot say exactly how some procedures must be implemented.

73% of enterprises cannot start the production of goods and services without obtaining the license. The average term of obtaining the license is 45 days. And this costs more than $200. Many enterprises have to pay to their employees only for standing in queues in numerous state bodies. The procedure of prolongation of the license is not any simpler than its obtaining. There is no a common informational resource where one can find the information on what documents are required for obtaining a sanction for doing some activity. There is lack for a comprehensive list of the documents. The requirements for obtaining permissions and licenses has nothing to do with the consumer rights. The practise of so called «expediency» licensing does exist. In this condition the system appears as a source for bureaucratic abuse, bribes and blocking creative motivation of people.

We believe that a good partnership of business and the authorities would appear in legislative form of the next issues:

    Ø abolishment of licensing trade by retail and other kinds of commercial activity, which do not threat the life of citizens, their health and the environment also;
    Ø unification of all kinds of permissions into one normative document (for example the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus ‛On licensing of separate kinds of activity“ July 14 2003 # 17);
    Ø  affirmation of a comprehensive list of documents (not being subject to a wider interpretation) required for obtaining licenses and permissions, and the order of the obtaining;
    Ø Establishment of the administrative responsibility for persons issuing licenses (permissions) if they require to provide documents and lay claims to licensee that are not foreseen by the statements on the order to issue licenses (permissions); 
    Ø unification of the order and procedures of obtaining licenses and permissions in all the state bodies;
    Ø reduction of the list of documents that are necessary to obtain licenses and permissions;
    Ø bringing the statements on licensing of separate kinds of activity in correspondence with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus ‛On licensing of separate kinds of activity“ July 14 2003 # 17 in regards to the terms for which the licenses are issued;
    Ø abolishment of the norm on stop of a license` duration with regards to reorganisation of a legal person.