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Construction licensing and Resolution No. 256: how to organise construction work in 2026

For many years, Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 256 set the licensing conditions for construction of facilities with medium and significant consequence classes. Owners and contractors therefore continue to search for a ‘licence under Resolution 256’ when they need to understand requirements for personnel, equipment and types of work.

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The transition involves the client, designer, contractor, technical and design supervision, the expert organisation and certified responsible professionals. Their details become part of the project’s digital record.

When the service is required

In 2026, the task is to translate the familiar licensing request into the current system: determine the consequence class, prepare the design, appoint certified professionals, formalise the right to commence work and maintain the data in the electronic construction system.

For the owner, the analysis of construction requirements should be linked to the financial model, contractual framework and launch timetable. Each formal step should produce a clear commercial result: the right to operate, raise finance, enter into contracts, pass bank due diligence or commence the project without a gap between the documents and the actual activity.

Work begins by defining the scope of the task. UBC analyses the source information, separates mandatory actions, internal decisions and counterparty documents, and then develops a procedure appropriate to the scale of the project and the organisational model for construction of CC1, CC2 and CC3 facilities.

What has changed in the procedure

Previously, a construction organisation submitted information on organisational, staffing, technological and special requirements, and the licence obtained confirmed the right to perform the listed works at facilities of the relevant complexity.

Under the current system, the key document for a specific project is a notification for CC1 or a permit for CC2 and CC3. The contractor’s competence is evidenced by its professionals, experience, contractual structure and ability to comply with design and construction requirements.

Digitalisation has reduced some technical steps but increased the importance of accurate source data. Registers and electronic accounts compare information more quickly, so names, authority, addresses, activity codes, financial indicators and project documents should be reconciled before filing.

Comparing the former and current procedures preserves terminology familiar to the market while showing which document, registration number, decision, notification or register entry evidences lawful activity in 2026.

Comparison of approaches: previously and in 2026

Sequence and main stages of the service

The work is best organised in stages. This approach allows the commercial objective, document package and responsibilities of participants to be aligned in advance and the result to be controlled at each stage.

1. identify the facility and determine its consequence class;
2. check land rights, source data and design documentation;
3. appoint designers, contractors and supervision professionals;
4. prepare a notification for CC1 or a permit application for CC2/CC3;
5. verify registration of the document and the information in the electronic system;
6. organise execution of the works, as-built documentation and commissioning;

Each stage ends with a verifiable result: an approved decision, a filed package, a registration number, an extract, a permit, a registered issue or other evidence appropriate to the service. This control allows the project to move to the next stage of organising construction of CC1, CC2 and CC3 facilities without losing the underlying business logic.

What is needed to start work

An initial assessment does not require every possible document. It is sufficient to prepare the information needed to identify the applicable procedure and draw up an exact list of further actions:

• title or other rights to the land plot and the client’s documents;
• planning conditions and restrictions, technical conditions and the design brief;
• the approved design and an expert report where required;
• qualification certificates of the responsible professionals;
• construction, design, design-supervision and technical-supervision contracts;
• registration numbers of the notification, permit and related documents;

Where some documents are held by a bank, depository, premises owner, designer, auditor, foreign participant or public authority, this is recorded separately in the working list. Requests can then be sent in parallel instead of making the entire timetable dependent on a single source.

Service-specific and organisational considerations

Even where filing takes place online, the main work remains managerial. Within the company, responsible persons should be appointed, source data agreed and consistency ensured across the documents supplied to the registrar, bank, regulator or counterparty.

Analysis of construction-activity requirements normally involves management, accounting, legal, technical and finance teams. Their decisions should be based on one agreed set of source data and one approved version of the documents.

Risk arises when a company limits itself to finding an old licence form and fails to verify the documents for the specific facility. Even an experienced contractor should commence work only after the client has completed the proper permitting formalities.

It is useful to maintain a milestone register showing what has been approved, who signed it, when it was filed, which number was assigned, where the electronic original is stored and who is responsible for the next deadline. Long-running processes should also have a calendar for reporting, updates and change notifications.

• control of the consequence class when the project changes;
• verification of the authority and current details of responsible persons;
• alignment of the actual works with the design and contract;
• maintenance of as-built documentation in the prescribed system;
• preparation of the complete package for commissioning the facility;

What you receive as a result

For the owner, a proper result is not an isolated certificate or system entry, but the ability to conduct the chosen activity lawfully and predictably, enter into contracts, receive payment and evidence the company’s status to partners.

The practical result is a facility for which the client and contractor have an approved design, a qualified team and a registered right to carry out the works.

Once the formalities are completed, the company has a working basis for organising construction of CC1, CC2 and CC3 facilities: staff understand the sequence of actions, documents are available for verification, and the owner can see how the legal and administrative framework supports sales, settlements, financing and project development.

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