Process description
Service requests
The service may be requested electronically in the Construction Information System (BIS).
Service requests documents required:
1. the submission “Explanatory Memorandum to the Engineering (Preservation)” has been completed.
2. documents certifying the right of possession or use, except in one of the following cases:
2.1. the initiator of construction shall be the owner of the immovable property;
2.2. the initiator of construction is the owner or possessor of an installation for which a protection zone has been determined;
3. conciliations according to the design of the construction;
4. a project for the performance of civil engineering conservation works;
5. an act of cultural and historical inventory, if the engineering structure is a cultural monument;
6. a project for the organisation of works, if the local government has indicated it in the decision regarding the preservation of the civil engineering;
7. a mandate where the documents are submitted by the authorised person;
8. Other documents.Payment of service
In accordance with the binding rules 01.12.2022of the Riga City Council No. RD-22-164-sn “On the local government fee for issuing a building permit and the local government fee for accepting the intention of building, making a note in an explanatory article”, the fee to accept the explanatory memorandum shall be paid:
1) for natural persons 1 decision - EUR 50;
2) for legal persons 1 decision - EUR 100.
The Properties:
Riga municipality
Reg. No 90011524360
Latvian branch of luminor Bank AS
Account No. LV82RIKO0020100000002
The following shall be exempt from payment of the fee:
1) persons with Group I and Group II disabilities, disadvantaged persons and repressed persons, if they are carried out
construction projects and construction for their own needs (construction sites - apartments, single-apartment or two-apartment residential houses, farm buildings, garage for individual use);
2) the recipients of a construction permit, if the construction has been financed in full for the resources of the local government budget or the construction of a social residential house is carried out in accordance with a decision of the local government;
3) electricity supply merchants who are licensed or comply with the regulations regarding regulatable types of public services, if the planned construction (the object of the construction intention) will be owned or used by the energy supply merchant and will be directly utilised for the production or transmission of electricity;
4) State administrative bodies.Receipt of services
Construction planning documents can be received electronically in the Construction Information System (BIS).