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Requirement of Permissions and Licenses

Business licenses are required to operate any business in India to avoid fines or closures. Before receiving assistance, entrepreneurs must obtain necessary clearances and licenses required by relevant authorities for various acts and rules. These include trade licenses, health/food licenses, VAT registration, excise registration, factory act registration, employee fund clearances, and professional tax. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSA) requires all food businesses to be registered or licensed. No food business can operate without a valid license and complying with sanitary and hygienic requirements. These conditions aim to ensure food businesses maintain proper sanitary standards for each food category. Food businesses are responsible for complying with F

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Requirement of Permissions and Licenses

Business licenses are required to operate any business in India to avoid fines or closures. Before receiving assistance, entrepreneurs must obtain necessary clearances and licenses required by relevant authorities for various acts and rules. These include trade licenses, health/food licenses, VAT registration, excise registration, factory act registration, employee fund clearances, and professional tax. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSA) requires all food businesses to be registered or licensed. No food business can operate without a valid license and complying with sanitary and hygienic requirements. These conditions aim to ensure food businesses maintain proper sanitary standards for each food category. Food businesses are responsible for complying with F

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REQUIREMENT OF PERMISSIONS AND LICENSES

Business licenses are required to start any type of new business in India as government
agencies can fine or close a business operating without the required licenses. Before
according necessary approval for any assistance, the authority concerned demands that
the entrepreneur should obtain the necessary clearances and/or licenses, as may be
required as per statues from the relevant authorities relating to various Acts and rules
framed there under. An illustrative list of such licenses/clearances is given below:

S. No. Type of Licenses or Clearances

1 Trade license or Trade Certificate of Enlistments

2 Health license or Food license

3 VAT registration

4 Central Excise registration and clearance

5 Licenses or registration under the Factories Act, 1948

6 Employees State Insurance and Provident Fund clearances

7 Professional Tax

The Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Business)
Regulations, 2011 (hereinafter referred to as "License and Registration Regulations")
govern the aspect of license and registration of a food business operator. Under
Regulation 2.1 of the License and Registration Regulations, all food business operators
in the country are required to be registered or licensed in accordance with the License
and Registration Regulations. Hence, no person shall commence any food business
unless a valid license is possessed by the food business operator, and the conditions
with regard to safety, sanitary and hygienic requirements have to be complied with at all
times by them.

One of the prime purposes of these conditions is to ensure that the food business
operator maintains sanitary and hygienic standards as specified in each food category. It
is hereby recognized and declared as a matter of legislative determination that in the
field of human nutrition, safe, clean, wholesome food is indispensable to the health and
welfare of the consumer of the country. It shall be the deemed the responsibility of the
food business to comply with the labeling, safety and health and sanitary requirements
laid down in the License and Registration Regulations. The labeling requirements are
specified under the regulations and they need to be complied with at all times especially
with regard to pre-packaged goods.

The FSSA being a central act has to be complied with by all the food business operators
in the country. However, India being a big market, each state may have their local laws
which may also need to be complied with. Some of the other approvals and licenses that
a food operator may be required to obtain from various authorities under other laws
include: health and trade licenses from the municipal corporation of the relevant area,
environmental clearance, no-objection certificate for fire prevention and safety,
registration under the police act of the respective city/state, verification certificate under
the Standards of Weig

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