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Decree № 48. On approval of Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for international and inter-town passenger and cargo transportation, forwarding services carried out by air transport in the Azerbaijan Republic

Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic

Decree № 48

On approval of Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for international and inter-town passenger and cargo transportation, forwarding services carried out by air transport in the Azerbaijan Republic

Baku, 9 March, 1998

With the purpose of implementation of Decree of President of the Azerbaijan Republic «On approval of list of activities requiring special permit (license)» dated 4 October, 1997 637, Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic takes decision:

1. To approve «Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for international and inter-town passenger and cargo transportation, forwarding services carried out by air transport in the Azerbaijan Republic» (enclosed).

2. This Decree comes into force from the date of its signing.

Prime-minister of the Azerbaijan Republic

A. RASI-ZADE

Became stale according to the Decree 173 as of 7 November, 2002 («LegalActs»).


Approved
by Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers
of the Azerbaijan Republic
48 dated 9 March, 1998

Regulations

on issuance of special permits (licenses) for international and inter-town passenger and cargo transportation, forwarding services carried out by air transport in the Azerbaijan Republic

I. General

1.1 These Regulations have been prepared based on the Law of the Azerbaijan Republic «On business activity», Air Code of the Azerbaijan Republic, «Regulations on issuance of special permits (licenses) for some kinds of business activity» approved by Decree of President of the Azerbaijan Republic 543, dated 27 January 1997, and Decree of President of the Azerbaijan Republic «On approval of list of activities requiring special permit (license)» 637, dated 4 October, 1997 and specify procedure of issuing special permit (license) for international and inter-town passenger and cargo transportation, forwarding services carried out by air transport (hereinafter «license»).

1.2 License issued by State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» based on this Regulations is official document permitting legal entities, irrespective of form of property and organization-legal form, and also physical persons involved in business activity without formation of legal entity (hereinafter - «applicants»), to carry out the following kinds of activity:

1.2.1 international passenger and cargo transportation, carried out by air transport;

1.2.2 forwarding services.

Separate license is issued for each specific kind of activity specified in this clause.

An applicant involved in several kinds of activity may have several licenses.

1.3 Applicants might carry out activity specified in the license in an established order and in specified term only after they have been given license based on these Regulations.

1.4 Foreign legal entities and physical persons, subsidiaries and representations of foreign legal entities must obtain license for certain kinds of activities in compliance with these Regulations if there is no inter-state agreement about recognition in the Azerbaijan Republic of licenses on said kinds of activities obtained by them in their countries.

1.5 Issued license (copy of license) may be used only by the license owner, it may not be transferred to other persons, and will not apply to legal entities whose constitutor is the owner of the license, to other persons carrying out joint activity with the owner of the license, including activity based on agreement about cooperation.

Provisional issuance of license to a person acting on behalf of the owner of license based on individual agreement (contract), or contract of agency, is not recognized transfer of a license to another person.

II. Procedure of issuance of license

2.1 To obtain license for international and inter-town passenger and cargo transportation, forwarding services carried out by air transport, an applicant should submit to State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» the following documents:

2.1.1 application for obtaining license.

Application shall specify:

  • for legal entities - name of legal entity, its organization-legal form, legal address, account number, name of bank, kind of activity1;
  • for physical persons - name, middle name, surname, data of identity certificate (series, number, date of issuance and issuing body, address), kind of activity1;

2.1.2 copies of constituent documents of the enterprise;

2.1.3 copy of certificate on state registration of the enterprise;

2.1.4 copy of certificate about registration of physical person carrying out business activity, in tax inspection;

2.1.5 document confirming payment of state duty for obtaining the license;

2.1.6 copy of document confirming right of an applicant for use of each of objects indicated in application (right for property, leasing, use, etc.);

2.1.7 the following conditions are obligatory for issuance of a license2:

  • copy of operational certificate, giving the right for use of aircraft to the applicant;
  • document about suitability of the aircraft for flight;
  • register of aircraft;
  • permit for radio-station of aircraft;
  • instruction for flight exploitation;
  • copy of insurance police of aircraft;
  • copy of insurance police about responsibility of the aircraft owner before third parties;
  • copy of the document confirming correspondent qualification of the aircraft’ personnel;
  • copy of certificate about state registration of aircraft in the Azerbaijan Republic (for rented aircraft - provisional registration on the territory of the Azerbaijan Republic);
  • document, confirming compliance of ordered route with provisions of inter-state agreement about air communication or the agreement substituting it.

2.1.8 the documents specified in sub-clauses 2.1.1-2.1.6 are required when issuing the license for forwarding services.

2.2 It is forbidden to demand from the applicant to submit documents other than those specified in these Regulations.

2.3 State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» accepts application for a license and documents envisaged in these Regulations, registers them in special book, studies them and if there are no faults or grounds for refusal - takes decision about issuance of license within 15 days from the date of registration.

If any faults have been found in submitted documents, applicant should be notified in writing as such, and within 5 days after elimination of faults and re-submittance of documents, these documents are studied and relevant decision is taken.

If decision about refusal in license is taken in accordance with terms of these Regulations, an applicant shall be informed as such, in writing with indication of reasons.

Should the last day of the term specified in this clause fall on holiday, the next working day will be regarded the last day of the term.

2.4 Refusal in issuance of the license takes place in the following cases:

2.4.1 failure to submit documents envisaged in these Regulations;

2.4.2 when data contained in the documents submitted by the applicant are inaccurate or false;

2.4.3 when obligatory conditions required for the applicant to implement certain kind of activity are absent;

2.4.4 if the applicant or invited specialists have no relevant qualifications for implementation of activity envisaged by these Regulations;

2.4.5 if two years have not yet passed after the license obtained by the applicant for said kind of activity was annulled on the initiative of the body, having issued the license;

2.4.6 if the applicant applied during the period of suspension of the license for certain kind of activity on the initiative of the body, having issued the license, which had been obtained earlier;

2.4.7 in other cases envisaged by legislation.

2.5 After elimination of circumstances which became the reason for refusal, the applicant will have the right to apply to State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» for a license in accordance with these Regulations, and if the applicant disagrees with refusal he will have the right to apply to law court.

2.6 On liquidation of the enterprise, organization, company or termination of validity of certificate on implementation of business activity granted to physical person, license granted to legal entities and physical persons also becomes null and void.

In case of re-organization of legal entity, change of its name, data in identity certificate of physical person, loss of license, the applicant should apply for re-issuance of the license within 15 days.

Procedure of re-issuance of the license is same as for its issuance.

During the term of re-registration of the license, its owner acts based on the former license (copies of license issued for separate objects), and should the license be lost - based on provisional permit of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» (copies of license issued for separate objects). Provisional permit signed by head of State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» and certified by seal is issued after all documents for re-registration of the license have been submitted.

III. License

3.1 The following is indicated in the license:

3.1.1 stamp of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari»;

3.1.2 for legal entities - name and legal address of the enterprise, organization and company which have been given the license;

3.1.3 for physical persons - name, middle name, surname, data of identity certificate (series, number, date of issuance and issuing body, address);

3.1.4 kind of activity for which license has been issued;

3.1.5 term of validity of the license;

3.1.6 procedure of implementation of respective kind of activity;

3.1.7 registration number of the license and date of issuance.

3.2 License is signed by head of State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» (deputy head during his absence) and notified by the seal of State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari».

IV. Term of validity of the license

4.1 License is issued for the period of two years.

4.2 Extension of the term of license validity is done in same order as its issuance.

4.3 Out of date license and its copies are considered invalid.

V. Copy of license

5.1 If licensed kind of activity is to be carried out at separate (in terms of territory) objects, an applicant shall be given copy of license for each separate object specified in application, with indication of its address.

5.2 If an applicant, after obtaining the license, desires to carry out activity at separate (in terms of territory) objects, or to increase a number of such objects he must submit the following documents to the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» to obtain copies of licenses for new objects:

5.2.1 application with indication of registration number of the license, date, kind of activity, number and addresses of new objects;

5.2.2 documents for the objects as envisaged by sub-clauses 2.1.6-2.1.7 of these Regulations.

5.3 State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» investigates application concerning issuance of copies of the license based on clauses 2.3 and 2.4 of these Regulations and takes relevant decision.

5.4 Copy of license is official document given to the license owner for each separate object, which is issued on the license form, with indication of requisites of the license itself, where word «copy» is added in the upper right corner, and address of the object is indicated in the box «Address». Said document will be signed by head of the body or, during his absence, by his deputy, notified by the seal of the body and will authorise to carry out activity specified in this copy.

5.5 Issued copies of licenses are registered at the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari».

5.6 If copy of a license gets lost, license owner should apply to the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» to get new copy.

5.7 Payment for issuance and re-registration of a copy of license is not taken.

VI. Procedure of use of license and control

6.1 When carrying out certain kind of activity based on these Regulations owners of the license must observe the following regulations:

6.1.1 safety of flights;

6.1.2 shipping of dangerous substances and matters by air transport;

6.1.3 behaviour on the aircraft;

6.1.4 transportation and tariffs;

6.1.5 international flights and other rules, arisen from Air Code of the Azerbaijan Republic.

6.2 State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» carries out control over observance of regulations regarding the license.

6.3 Authority of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» includes the following:

6.3.1 control over observance of normative-legal acts and license regulations concerning implementation of kind of activity specified in the license;

6.3.2 requests and obtaining data and references on issues which could arise in the course of inspection from the license owner;

6.3.3 writing act on results of inspection with indication of faults and term for their elimination;

6.3.4 warning the owner of the license about necessity to liquidate found faults;

6.3.5 investigation of the case on suspension or annulment of the license.

6.4 During inspection the owner of the license must provide access of representatives of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» to the objects under inspection, to create normal conditions for inspection and supply all relevant documents.

6.5 Act in two copies is issued based on results of inspection. Act is signed by representatives of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» and license owner (head of the enterprise). In case of refusal to sign the act, it is noted in the act. Explanation of the license owner (head of the enterprise) is enclosed with the act. One copy of act remains with the license owner.

6.6 Whenever necessary, State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» may enlist to inspections carried out under these Regulations, representatives of relevant organisations.

VIII. Suspension or annulment of the license

7.1 The license is suspended by the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» in the following cases:

7.1.1 when the owner of the license submits such application;

7.1.2 if the owner of the license fails to observe normative acts, or activity of the applicant is stopped by relevant state bodies based on legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic;

7.1.3 insolvency of the owner of license has been confirmed by legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic;

7.1.4 violation of terms and obligations which are required for implementation of certain kind of activity under these Regulations, has been established;

7.1.5 in other cases envisaged by legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.

7.2 Within 5 days from the date when decision about suspension of the license has been taken, State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» notifies in writing the owner of the license and state tax inspection bodies about this decision.

Should circumstances which resulted in suspension of the license change, the license might again become valid after application of the owner. License shall be regarded restored after relevant decision of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari»; the owner of the license and state tax inspection bodies are notified about such decision in writing, within 5-day term.

7.3 The license is annulled by the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» in the following cases:

7.3.1 when the owner of the license submits such application;

7.3.2 unreliable data are found in documents submitted for obtaining the license;

7.3.3 owner of the license has violated procedures of use of the license;

7.3.4 there is such decision of the law court;

7.3.5 on liquidation of legal entity and termination of validity of certificate which has been issued to physical person involved in business activity;

7.3.6 in other cases envisaged by legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic.

7.4 Within 5 days from the date when decision about annulment of the license has been taken, State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» notifies in writing the owner of the license and state tax inspection bodies.

7.5 Decision taken about suspension, annulment or restoration of the license validity will apply also to copies of licenses issued based on these Regulations for individual objects.

7.6 State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» keeps register of issued, registered, suspended, restored and annulled licenses.

VIII. Responsibility

8.1 Heads and officials of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» are responsible in accordance with current legislation for violation or improper observance of legislation of the Azerbaijan Republic concerning licensing.

8.2 Decisions and actions of directors and officials of the State Concern «Azerbaijan Hava Yollari» may be appealed against in the law court in accordance with established order.

8.3 Persons (entities) carrying out kinds of activity specified in these Regulations without license are responsible in line with existing legislation.


1 If kind of activity indicated in application is to be carried out at individual (in terms of territory) objects, number and addresses of such objects will be also specified in application.

2 Each object of the applicant, which will carry out the objects specified in application should correspond to these conditions.


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