Engineering Business Report and Transfer (Succession) Report Filing

Procedure

Procedure

1. 01

   Choose the business type and specialized fields: File as an engineering business for engineering activities in general, or as an engineering consulting business for research, planning, advice and guidance only. Select specialized fields (e.g., roads and airports, water supply and sewerage, air quality management) under the technical sectors of Annexed Table 1, and meet the reporting standards separately for each field.

2. 02

   Check technical personnel standards: An engineering business needs at least 3 technical-track engineering technicians including 1 special-grade technician; a consulting business needs at least 1 special-grade technician. A professional engineer counts as 1 special-grade and 1 entry-grade technician, and personnel must work exclusively on engineering activities, so employment at other companies and recognized fields and grades are checked.

3. 03

   Prepare the office and attachments: Obtain a certificate of engineering technicians held from the Korea Engineering and Consulting Association, and prove the office with a building register certificate or lease agreement. A corporation also prepares its corporate register certificate, and the trade name, representative and address on all documents are matched to the report.

4. 04

   Prepare and file the report with the Association: Attach the personnel deployment table by specialized field (Form No. 8-2) and other attachments to the engineering business report (Form No. 8) and submit them to the Korea Engineering and Consulting Association. To add a specialized field in the same technical sector, at least 3 technicians including 1 advanced-grade or higher technician in that field are required.

5. 05

   Respond to the notice and supplementation requests: Acceptance is notified within 30 days of receipt, and if supplementation is needed, a deadline of up to 3 months is set. If no notice is given within the period, the report is deemed accepted on the day after the period ends, and a report certificate is issued upon acceptance.

6. 06

   Succession on transfer and change reports: On acquisition, merger or inheritance, file the succession report (Form No. 12) within 30 days of the event, and check the previous business's sanction history with a confirmation of administrative disposition history before the acquisition. A change report is filed within 60 days when the trade name, representative, place of business, specialized field or technical personnel change.

Filing route

Filing route

Deadlines & processing notes

Deadlines & processing notes

Basic documents

Basic documents

The effect of sanctions imposed on the previous business passes to the transferee for 1 year from the date of the disposition, and pending sanction procedures may continue, so check the sanction history with the confirmation of administrative disposition history before signing the transfer agreement.