Economic operators carrying sop commercial activities, service provision, and public catering activities (corresponding to the CAEN codes provided in the Annex) are obliged to submit documentation in order to obtain the operating agreement, respectively the operating license for carrying out public catering activities.

It is not necessary to obtain the operating license in the following situations:

• for the headquarters of the economic operator where only office activity is carried out without involving public access, except in cases where authorization is expressly requested, justified by the requirement of a legislative act (e.g. organization of auctions, courses, bank loans, etc);
• for the work points of legal persons with non-profit purpose (associations, foundations, etc) who do not carry out commercial or service provision activities;
• for food and non-food product manufacturing activities that are carried out in industrial areas provided for in the Urban Zoning Plan (P.U.Z.) and which do not involve the sale of products through own sales structures;
• for spaces with an exclusive profile of gambling and betting;
• for law offices, headquarters of public notaries, judicial executors, judicial liquidators, mediators, accounting experts;
• for medical offices, medical analysis laboratories and medical clinics;
• for financial intermediation activities (currency exchange, insurance, etc);
• for other forms of legal organization that operate under special laws.