OBTAINING A LICENSE FOR CARRYING OUT ACTIVITIES WITH FUEL

According to Art. 15 of the Law of Ukraine of December 19, 1995 № 481/95-VR "On State Regulation of Production and Circulation of Ethyl, Cognac, and Fruit Alcohol, Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco Products, Liquids Used in Electronic Cigarettes, and Fuel" (hereinafter Law № 481) storage of fuel is carried out by business entities of all forms of ownership with a license.
Entrepreneurs receive fuel storage licenses for each fuel storage location.

Licenses for the right to store fuel are issued by the authorized bodies of the executive power at the location of fuel storage facilities for a period of five years.

To attention! A business entity has the right to store fuel without obtaining a license for the right to store fuel in places of fuel production or places of wholesale fuel trade or places of retail fuel trade, for which relevant licenses have been obtained.

A license for the right to store fuel is not obtained for fuel storage places used:

• enterprises, institutions and organizations that are fully supported by state or local budget funds;
  enterprises, institutions and organizations of the state reserve system;
• by business entities to store fuel that is consumed for their own production and technological needs exclusively at oil and gas production sites, drilling platforms and that is not sold through retail outlets.

Business entities that carry out, in particular, fuel storage exclusively in consumer containers up to 5 liters, do not receive a fuel storage license.

The license is issued on the basis of an application submitted on purpose, by mail or in electronic form, to which is attached a document confirming the payment of the annual fee for the license.

The application specifies the type of economic activity for which the business entity intends to obtain a license (in particular, fuel storage).

To obtain a license for the right of wholesale or retail trade in fuel or for the right to store fuel, together with the application, certified copies of the following documents must be submitted by the applicant:

• documents confirming the right of ownership or the right to use a land plot, or other legally prescribed land use right to the land plot on which the object of wholesale or retail fuel trade or fuel storage is located, valid on the date of submission of the application and/or on the date of entering such information object into operation, of any purpose;
• act of commissioning of the object or act of readiness of the object for operation, or certificate of acceptance into operation of objects completed by construction, or other documents confirming the acceptance of objects into operation in accordance with the legislation, for all objects in a place of wholesale or retail trade in fuel or storage of fuel, necessary for wholesale or retail trade in fuel or storage of fuel;
• permission to carry out work of increased danger and operation (use) of machines, mechanisms, equipment of increased danger.

Copies of such documents are not submitted if they are available in open state registers, if the details of such documents and the names of the relevant registers are indicated in the application for the issuance of a license for the right to wholesale or retail trade in fuel or to store fuel.

If the specified documents are issued (issued) to a person other than the applicant, such applicant additionally submits documents confirming his right to use the corresponding facility.

Business entities that store fuel that is not sold to other persons and is used exclusively for their own consumption or industrial processing do not submit copies of the specified documents. In the application, such business entities indicate the use of fuel for their own consumption or processing, the total capacity of tanks and containers used for fuel storage, and their actual location.