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order to carry out some business and transport
activities or provide certain services,
sole proprietors and company administrators
must register in the relevant registers,
rolls or lists, including the: Register
of Tradespeople, the
Register of Unscheduled public transport
vehicle drivers, Register
of traders, manufacturers and importers
of precious metals. For some of activities,
registration is compulsory, but it has
to be combined with licenses, authorisations
or other administrative acts, allowing
applicants to exercise the right they
acquired through registration. Such activities
include Bread-making
and Milling Activities
Restaurants
and Bars
Entrepreneurs who intend to undertake
catering activities (such as restaurants,
eating-houses, pizzerias, bars, pubs,
etc.) have to register in the Register
of Tradespeople (Rec) of the Chamber of
Commerce. Only registration applications
filed by people meeting specific moral
and professional requirements are accepted.
Professional skills are attested by certificates
of attendance of vocational training courses
or by passing an exam before an ad hoc
commission established by the Chamber
of Commerce. Exceptions are people who
have already carried out business activities
in their own name or on behalf of third
parties for a given number of years. Beside
registration, a municipal authorisation
is required.
Taxi
and unscheduled public transport vehicle
drivers
Unscheduled public transport services
complement scheduled (railway, road and
air) transport services. Such complementary
communal or individual passenger transport
services are provided on demand. Taxi
drivers must registered in a specific
Register established by the Chamber of
Commerce. Before registering, their professional
skills are tested, with particular reference
to their geographical knowledge of the
area and of the local toponymy. Registration
is required in order to obtain a licence,
provide taxi services and obtain an authorisation
to rent vehicles with drivers.
Traders
in precious metals
People selling ingots, bars, laminated,
trimmed and, in general, semi-processed
platinum, palladium, gold and silver,
and manufacturing or importing precious
metals must apply for registration in
the Register of Traders, Manufacturers
and Importers of precious metals. Registration
is required in order to sell, manufacture
and import noble metals, and also to have
ones metals and products to be sold hallmarked.
Bakers
In order to establish a bakery, a permit
issued by the relevant provincial Chamber
of Commerce is required. Granting of the
aforesaid permit depends on specific parameters,
to be assessed by the Chamber of Commerce,
including the number of already established
bakeries and the volume of production
in the area where the new bakery should
be set up.
After obtaining said permit, an application
has to be filed for a licence allowing
start-up. Such licence is issued by the
Chamber of Commerce, after assessing the
equipment efficiency and its compliance
with the relevant technical and sanitary
requirements.
Once the permit and licence have been
obtained, the business activity can start
and an application can be filed for registration
either in the Business Register, or in
the Register of Handicraft Firms.
Mills
In order to run a milling facility, to
mill, transport or process cereals, a
licence is to be obtained from the territorially
competent Chamber of Commerce. Applications
for licences must indicate the place where
the facility should be installed, and
include a description of the equipment
utilised, the milling methods and the
facility’s potential daily production
capacity.
The Chamber of Commerce issues the aforesaid
licences after hearing the advice of the
Labour Inspectorate (Ispettorato del lavoro),
with a view to ascertaining the technical
requirement compliance and milling capacity;
it also hears the advice of the Local
Health Unit (ASL), with respect to sanitary
requirement compliance.
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