Obtaining licenses and permits

If you are about to run a business in Azerbaijan, you should definitely know the types of business licenses and permits your company must get. This is to ensure your business legally exists and operates in a jurisdiction.

Obtaining business licenses is one of the initial steps for starting a business. The requirements are different across jurisdictions. They also depend on business entity types and business industry. Let’s define the term and see how to obtain a business license with the ALC.

Types of Business Licenses & Permits in Azerbaijan:

1. Types of activity requiring a license (except the cases related to national security

1. Toxic industrial waste:
   1. recycling
   2. disposal
2. Private medical activity
3. Private medical activity:
   1. drugs production
   2. wholesale of drugs
   3. retail sale of drugs
4. Precursors:
   1. production
   2. import
   3. export
   4. transit transportation
5. Educational activities:
   1. pre-school educational institutions
   2. educational institutions (including lyceums and gymnasiums)
   3. first level vocational special education institutions (vocational schools
      and vocational lyceums)
   4. secondary education institutions
   5. higher education institutions
   6. additional education institutions
   7. vocational secondary religious educational institutions
   8. higher religious education institutions
6. Communication services:
   1. telephone (wired)
   2. radio trunk and cordless phones
   3. cellular (mobile) communication services (indicating the technological
      standard)
   4. IP-telephony (Internet telephony)
   5. organization of telecommunications channels in the country
   6. organization of international telecommunication channels
   7. data transmission
   8. express mail service
7. TV and radio broadcasting:
   1. National TV broadcasting
   2. TV broadcasting across Baku city
   3. regional TV broadcasting
   4. national radio broadcasting
   5. radio broadcasting across Baku city
   6. regional radio broadcasting
   7. additional information broadcasting
   8. cable network broadcasting with a number of subscribers up to 5000
   9. cable network broadcasting with a number of subscribers more than 5000
   10. Satellite broadcasting
   11. activities to ensure satellite broadcasting of foreign TV and radio channels via encoders
8. Storage of waste of radioactive and ionizing radiation substances
9. Transport of dangerous goods
10. Liquid and natural gas facilities:
    1. installation
    2. operation
11. Mining works, mining and drilling
12. Activity related to installation and repair of elevators
13. Operation of amusement parks
14. Installation and repair of lifting equipment, metallurgical equipment, pressure boilers and tanks
15. Diagnostics of equipment and technical devices operated at potentially dangerous facilities and production of other technical inspections
16. Fire protection measures:
    1. fire protection of enterprises and settlements on a contractual basis
    2. manufacture, sale and testing of fire-fighting equipment
    3. installation, maintenance and repair of fire protection means and systems
    4. repair of firefighting accessories, repair and maintenance of primary firefighting equipment, and  restoration of quality of fire-fighting equipment
17. Engineering and surveillance in buildings and structures, construction of which requires authorization
18. Construction and installation works of buildings and structures which require construction permit
19. Design of buildings and structures, which require construction permit  and use of information procedure
20. Private veterinary medical activity
21. Veterinary drugs:
    1. production
    2. sale
22. Plant protection equipment and agrochemicals:
    1. production
    2. import
23. Organization of individual hunting farms
24. Supply of raw materials of wild medicinal plants for manufacturing purposes
25. Manufacturing of various types of seals and stamps