opted on 14 May, 1999 defines those business activities which can be carried out only by licenses issued by the corresponding state agencies.
The law lists those types of business activities about which corresponding state bodies must be notified. The law does not cover export-import relations, environmental control and utilization of natural resources, electric power, oil and natural gas, communication and post services, where licensing procedures are regulated by special legal acts.
Activities to be Licensed and Licensing Agencies . The types of business activities that require obtaining a license and the respective state licensing agencies are as follows:
a) Insurance activities and intermediary (agency) services in the field of insurance - Insurance State Supervision Service of Georgia;
b) Banking activities, activities of foreign currency exchange points - National Bank of Georgia;
c) Production, repair of and trading with arms and ammunition - Ministry of Justice of Georgia (Within the limits defined by National Security Council of Georgia);
d) Air transportation of passengers and goods or/and carrying out aviation related work at the territory of Georgia, maritime transportation and hauling - Ministry of Transport and Communications of Georgia;
e) Activities of the regulated participants of the securities market (brokerage companies, brokers, stock exchanges, central securities depositary and securities registrars) - Ministry of Finance of Georgia;
f) Organizing lotteries and other money-making games - Ministry of Finance of Georgia;
g) Production of medicines and substances that are subject to special control, medicines used in veterinary, activities of health care organizations - Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Protection;
h) Activities of diagnostic centers for technical examination of motor vehicles-Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia;
i) Design - Construction works - Ministry of Urbanization and Construction of Georgia (in the cases defined by the law);
j) Activities of auditing firms - Parliamentary Council on Audit Activity of Georgia;
k) Activities of private educational institutions - Ministry of Education of Georgia;
l) Production and repair of metrological and measurement equipment - Department of Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Georgia;
m) Production of food products (including child's food products) and tobacco - Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Georgia.
Notification about Carrying Out Activities . The following fields of activities are subject for compulsory notification of the relevant state agencies as defined in this paragraph :
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