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By Mushvig Mehdiyev

The government has updated the list of documents required for licensing the construction activities in Azerbaijan.

The Cabinet publicized its new requirements on September 26 in an effort to protect the environment and cultural heritage in the country.

From now on the recultivation and restoration activities will be carried out through verbal permission of relevant bodies in the sites which the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry has announced as polluted.

Additional permission will also be required in case the construction activities have negative physico-mechanical or physico-chemical effects on the stationary historical and cultural monuments. The same permission will be required for the construction work carried out in the areas nearby the historical and cultural monuments.

The Cabinet of Ministers has confirmed the single form of authorizing the exploitation of buildings in Azerbaijan.

The Cabinet approved the list of buildings, which do not require technical supervision.

Hereby no technical supervision will be applied on the single-storey buildings, which are not designed for living or production activities, the single-storey production sites, which do not require sanitary protection zones, and the single-storey construction facilities. The parameters for buildings out of technical supervision are maximum six meters of roof length and width, as well as 1,000 square meters area.

Additionally, technical supervision is not applied for the existing buildings and their parts, which have passed the inspection and are used without change of any parameters.