Licensing in the field of architectural, urban planning and construction activities

According to Article 28 of the Law on Permits and Notifications, certain types of activities or actions (operations) in the field of architectural, urban planning and construction activities are subject to licensing.

According to the Rules for the provision of public services in the field of issuing licenses in architectural, Urban Planning and Construction activities and the Unified Qualification requirements for the licensed architectural, Urban Planning and construction activities, in order to obtain a category 3 license for construction and installation work, it is necessary:

1. pay10 MCI license fee;

2. Certified engineering and technical workers according to the requested subspecies;

3. availability of a production base on the right of ownership (economic management or operational management) and (or) lease for a period of at least one year (with state registration in the legal cadastre), equipped with:
1) administrative and industrial buildings or premises necessary to perform the declared types of work, a subspecies of the licensed type of activity. At the same time, administrative, industrial and other buildings or premises of the production base can be combined, if this does not contradict the requirements of the occupational safety and health system during work, and also does not violate the working conditions of administrative, technical and production workers.
2) workplaces organized in accordance with working conditions

4. availability of minimal material and technical equipment on the right of ownership (economic management or operational management) and (or) lease, including a minimum set of equipment, control and measuring devices, machines and mechanisms that are installed in accordance with the technical requirements for the performance of construction and installation works, depending on the technical requirements for the declared works of the subspecies of the licensed type activities in accordance with Annex 3 to these Unified Qualification Requirements and the list of documents confirming compliance with them, to carry out activities in the field of architecture, urban planning and construction;

For category 2, in addition to the above, the licensee's work experience of at least five years is required, while the work experience is calculated from the date of receipt of a license or other equivalent permit for foreign persons to carry out construction and installation works, or work experience of at least five years as a licensee of category III, while in case of termination licenses work experience is canceled;

The presence of at least five completed construction projects of the second technically simple and (or) third level of responsibility as a general contractor with the submission of documentary evidence (copies of signed acts of commissioning of the facility), or the presence of at least ten objects of the first and (or) second levels of responsibility on which the licensee has implemented work under subcontracting agreements, with submission of documentary evidence (copies of signed acts of work performed). For foreign persons, an equivalent document is taken into account as the submission of a documentary confirmation.

For category 1, in addition to the above, the licensee must have at least ten years of work experience, or at least seven years for a person who carried out construction and installation work for offshore oil and gas projects in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, or at least five years of work experience as a category II licensee. Work experience is calculated from the date of receipt of the license, and in case of termination of the license, work experience is canceled.
For foreign persons, an equivalent permit for construction and installation works is taken into account as work experience;

The presence of at least ten completed construction projects of the first and (or) second levels of responsibility as a general contractor with the submission of documentary evidence (copies of signed acts of commissioning of the facility), or at least twenty objects of the first and (or) second levels of responsibility, on which the licensee has implemented work under subcontracting agreements, with the submission of documentary evidence (copies of signed acts of completed works). For foreign persons, an equivalent document is taken into account as the submission of a documentary confirmation;