Decree No. 548 of the National Regulatory Commission on Energy and Public Utilities validating the Regulation on the procedure of licensing of activities subject to regulation by the Commission.

This Decree establishes the procedure for issuance, renewal, suspension and revocation of licenses for the types of economic activities subject to regulation by the National Regulatory Commission on Energy and Public Utilities. It shall be applicable to the following activities: (a) hydropower generation, transportation, distribution and supply to consumers; (b) transportation, storage and distribution of oil and natural gas; and (c) generation of thermal energy, transportation and distribution thereof, and centralized water supply and centralized effluent waste water discharge (sewerage). The application for a license must contain information on the licensee: (a) for the legal entity - full name, identification code, location, list of separate units within which the business activity to be licensed is planned; (b) for individual entrepreneur - surname, name, patronymic (if any), place of residence, taxpayer's registration card registration number (not requested from natural person who, due to his or her religious beliefs, refuses to accept a taxpayer's registration card registration number and informed the appropriate supervisory authority and has a stamp in passport (in which case a copy of this stamp shall be submitted) and consent to the processing of personal data in order to ensure compliance with the requirements of the acting legislation. In the case of transfer of the right to carry out the economic activity for which the license has been obtained, from the licensee who was an individual entrepreneur to another individual who is his heir, such license shall be renewed in the name of the heir within one month from the date of acquisition on condition of compliance with the requirements of the relevant licensing conditions.