1. Regulated Activities

Those carried out in places where products and consumer goods are extracted, produced, manufactured, transformed, processed, prepared, manipulated, purified, fractionated, packaged or repackaged, imported, exported, stored, dispatched, transported, bought, sold, transferred, or used (food, additives, beverages, water for human consumption, bottled or not, drugs, medicines, pharmaceutical supplies, correlates, products, and equipment of interest to health, cosmetics, beauty products, sanitizers, household cleaning products, hygiene items, and pesticides, among others) or where services of interest to health are provided; including all types of health care units, specialized or not, and other related activities.

Paragraph 3 of article 8 of Supplementary Law 197/2018 also expressly lists a series of other activities covered by the same condition, such as daycare centers, concert halls, clubs, hotels, shopping centers, stadiums, among others.

These establishments can only operate after issuing a Health Operating License (LSF).

2. Related activities

Those that must be controlled by the municipal health agency, considering the risks arising from environments and places of collective use, where any economic, commercial, industrial, and service activity is carried out by a legal entity in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro. In other words, in practice, all others, of a permanent nature, that do not qualify as “regulated activity”.

In order to operate, these establishments must apply for a Health License for Related Activities (LSAR).

3. Transitory activities
Ancillary activities at events held in public or private areas, which involve, among other things, the sale of food and drink, emergency medical care, pet exhibitions, agricultural festivals, art shows and circuses.

In order to operate, these establishments must apply for a Health License for Transitional Activities (LSAT).