Some 320 businesses have achieved in recent months municipal authorization to be made ​​operational within 10 days, by simplifying administrative Cartagena City Council began implementing last April. 149 of these businesses are newly created and about 170 are businesses that have obtained authorization to continue working with new owner.
Total operating licenses granted so far this year, total 495, a figure that exceeds the total of licenses granted during 2011, which was 480.
The area councilor Urbanism, Environment and Heritage, Joaquin Segado, recalled that this measure applies to exempt activities, ie, which do not require prior environmental impact statement. 70% of businesses are Cartagena and such that these measures benefit a vast majority of entrepreneurs and small businesses.
The ordinance regulating the activities Express came into force last April 9 and reduces licensing terms to ten days.
Segado considers this as a clear commitment to the small and medium enterprises, as a period of a week and a half, any entrepreneur can have everything ready to go legally.
The employer has less bureaucracy, less waiting time and increased safety for operating your business.
The council has reported that the City will pursue this line of support to business initiatives responsible for regulating the declaration that the automatic licenses are not exempt establishments under dim ensions.
The ordinance streamlines administrative simplification of licensing activity, replacing the licensing process for a simple advance notice, in activities that do not require special procedures: specifically, all relating to change in ownership, new store activity of no more than 1,000 square meters or bars without music.
Among small businesses authorized business of clothing, jewelry, offices, business offices, bakeries, stationers and hairdressers, among others.
The employer must communicate with 10 days' notice of its intention to launch a business and must submit three documents: the statement of responsibility for meeting the requirements, the technical certificate and certificate of urban facilities.
With this documentation, you can start your business legally.
The ordinance also stipulates that all documentation is submitted in electronic form, with which all files are hosted on secure servers that can access the technical and legal.
Outside the scope of the license are ready activities requiring special environmental permits, as in the case of livestock, and taking place in a location protected from the standpoint of equity or listed buildings, which will have to continue its passage usual.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena