Process description
Service requests
The service may be requested in person, by post and by electronic means.
When requesting a service in person, the client shall turn to the City Development Department of Riga City Council, leaving the documents in a specially designed filing cabinet.
When requesting the service by mail, the customer shall submit a completed application with the documents attached thereto.
When requesting a service electronically, the client shall submit a submission, which has been prepared in conformity with the regulatory enactments regarding the drawing up of electronic documents, certified with a secure electronic signature and time stamp. For construction cases initiated after 31.12.2019. the service may be requested in the Construction Information System (BIS).
Receipt of services documents required:
- an application duly completed (Confirmation regarding the operational readiness of the building, building or civil engineering);
- an execution plan (with a building accommodation, external engineering networks constructed for it and other structures constructed at the same time);
- the case of the cadastral survey of the structure or group of premises;
- an opinion on the operational readiness of the utility network;
- a works journal;
- instruments for the adoption of major structures and covered works;
- the report of the building supervisor regarding the implementation of the plan of construction surveillance;
- temporary energy performance certificate;
- an author-monitoring journal, if an author-supervision has been performed during the works;
- other documents in conformity with the requirements of the regulatory enactments regulating construction.Receipt of services
The deed regarding the acceptance of a building or part thereof in operation may be received in person in the City Development Department of Riga City Council, Dzirnavu Street 140, Riga, presenting a personal identification document (authorised person - mandate) or electronically in the Construction Information System (BIS).
In case of refusal: a decision regarding refusal to take into service shall be sent in a registered mail or electronically to the e-mail indicated in the application or in the Construction Information System (BIS).
Documents can be received on Tuesday from 9.00 to 13.00, on Thursdays from 13.00 to 17.00. In order to request receipt of documents, a previous record must be made by calling the Call Centre of the City Development Department of Riga City Council by telephone: 67105800.