SET UP A BUSINESS >Business activities requiring a business start-up statement
   
 

After registering in the Business Register, for some businesses (including Fitters, Garages, Cleaning, Disinfection, Deratization and Sanitation Companies, companies dealing with the Production of margarine and hydrogenated edible fats and running the relating storage facilities, and businesses carrying out porterage activities),the assessment of their compliance with specific technical requirements and technical skills has to be carried out. In fact, the above-mentioned registration is just a provisional one, and it is only confirmed after the ascertainment of the relevant requirements.

Fitters
Under specific safety provisions, in order to perform the installation, modification, upgrading and maintenance of radio, television and electronic systems; heating and air-conditioning systems; water systems and sanitary fixtures; liquid gas transport and utilisation systems; lifts and fire systems; as well as systems for the production, distribution and use of electricity in civil-use buildings, a specific authorisation is required. The businesses that intend to carry out such activities must submit the Start-up Statement (Dia) to the Business Register (Register of Handicraft Firms for the latter). Businesses can immediately start operating, but continuation of their activities is only allowed if they meet the relevant requirements, which are ascertained by the Chamber of Commerce within sixty days of start-up. Only after said assessment is made their registration is confirmed.

 

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Car mechanics, motor mechanics, body repairmen, car electricians and tyre dealers
In order to open a garage, a car electrical repair shop, a body repair shop or a tyre shop, it is necessary to submit a start-up statement to the Business Register (Register of Handicraft Firms for the latter).

Said statement must indicate the specific type of activity to be carried out, and guarantee compliance with the repair shop-related requirements in terms of space available, minimum equipment; moreover, the name of the senior engineer must be specified (principals or senior engineers, should they be persons other than the principals, must meet the relevant health, moral and professional requirements).

Professional qualification can be acquired by carrying on the car-repair trade for three years over the last five years. For people with a technical-vocational state college certificate, or a technical secondary school certificate issued by a state technical college, one-year working experience is enough, as it is the case for people who qualified as skilled workers after attending a training course formally authorised by regional authorities. A technical-scientific university degree alone, without any working experience, is sufficient to have one’s technical-professional skills acknowledged.

After submitting their start-up statement, businesses can immediately start operating, but continuation of their activities is only allowed if they meet the relevant requirements, which are ascertained by the Chamber of Commerce within sixty days of start-up statement submission.


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Cleaning Companies
People who intend to carry out cleaning, disinfection, deratization and sanitization activities must submit a start-up statement to the Business Register or Register of Handicraft Firms, as the case may be, affirming they meet the economic-financial, technical and organisational skills and honourability requirements. The Chamber of Commerce verifies compliance with the aforesaid requirements, within sixty days of start-up statement submission, and only after it is ascertained registration is confirmed.

 

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Margarine and hydrogenated edible fats
In order to produce solid edible fats, other than butter and pork fat, for commercial purposes and run wholesale storage facilities for the aforesaid products, it is necessary to submit a start-up statement to the Chamber of Commerce. Said statement must indicate the place where the relevant facility is to be installed, and the file must include a description of the equipment utilised and the processing methods, a scale map of the premises and a sanitary certificate. The Chamber of Commerce enters businesses in the Business Register once each file’s compliance with the relevant requirements is ascertained.

 

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Porterage
People who intend to carry out porterage activities must submit a start-up statement to the Registry or, for Handicraft Firms, to the Provincial Handicraft Committee, stating that they meet the relevant honourability, economic, financial and organisational requirements. After ascertaining they meet the aforesaid requirements, the Chamber of Commerce confirms their registration. Such procedure is provided for by Decree n. 221 dated June 30, 2003, issued by the Minister of Production Activities.

 

Businesses carrying out porterage activities

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