The procedure followed by the office when dealing with an application for a concession

The processing of a received submission at the trade licensing office

The trade licensing office that received the application for a concession will register the submission and assess whether its content is correct. If the submission also includes information that has been submitted via the CRP to other public administration authorities, the trade licensing office will transmit the relevant information within the following time limits:

Submissions to the Social Security Administration, the Labour Office or a health insurance company:

• Within 5 working days from the date of submission or from the date on which defects in the submission have been rectified.

Submissions to the tax authority:

• Within 3 working days from the date of submission.

The trade licensing office will make electronic copies of the original documents listed in Section 46(7) of the Trade Licensing Act (e.g. a document proving the legal title to use the premises where the legal person has its registered office, documents proving professional competence, etc.) and file the copies with the trade licensing register. In the future, the documents that are filed in the trade licensing register do not need to be presented again by the entrepreneur when notifying a trade, applying for a concession or notifying a change in the entrepreneur’s information, as long as the facts that are evidenced by the documents remain unchanged.

The procedure followed by the trade licensing office in dealing with a submission depends on whether the content of the submission is correct. If it becomes apparent, from the submission made, that the entrepreneur has not fulfilled a statutory obligation or has not met a statutory time limit, the trade licensing office may impose an administrative penalty (sanction).