Food is the most important thing for people, and everyone can't live without it, so the catering industry still has great development prospects. At least, the market it faces is very large. If you want to enter the catering industry, you need to apply for relevant qualification certificates first. Then, does the catering industry need to apply for an environmental permit? Let's take a look at it together. 1. Does the catering industry need to apply for an environmental permit? The catering industry needs to apply for the following documents: 1. Handling the Business License: A business license is the most basic condition for a restaurant to run. 2. Handling of Catering Service License: The former health supervision department was replaced by the food and drug supervision department to supervise the catering service link and handle the catering service license at the same time. 3. Handling of "Environmental Approval": Environmental approval is an indispensable step in the process of opening a restaurant license. It mainly includes: oil smoke pollution, waste water pollution, noise pollution and solid waste pollution. 4. Handling of "Fire Control Procedures": Restaurant operators should submit application forms and restaurant location plans; Receive the Approval Form for Key Industries of Fire Safety, and the competent fire department will send fire inspectors to check and accept it. 5. Handling of the Tax Registration Certificate: Within 31 days from the date of obtaining the business license, you should apply to the local tax bureau for the local tax registration number. Small restaurants opened by individual industrial and commercial households have to pay 5% business tax.

2. How many types of permits can the environmental permit system be divided into? Permits used in environmental management can be roughly divided into three categories: 1. Permits for preventing environmental pollution, such as pollutant discharge permits and marine dumping permits. 2. Permits for preventing environmental damage, such as forest cutting license, hunting license, mining license, fishing license, etc. 3, the overall environmental protection permit construction planning permit management procedures are: application-review-decision-supervision-disposal

3, how to punish sewage discharge for environmental pollution crime? According to Article 338 of the Criminal Law and Article 46 of the Amendment (8), anyone who, in violation of state regulations, discharges, dumps or disposes of radioactive wastes, wastes containing infectious disease pathogens, toxic substances or other harmful substances, which seriously pollutes the environment, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention and shall also or shall only be fined; If the consequences are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined. 1. Whoever constitutes a crime of environmental pollution shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined. 2. Whoever constitutes a crime of environmental pollution, with especially serious consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined. The so-called "especially serious consequences" refers to: (1) the interruption of water intake from centralized drinking water sources in urban areas above the county level for more than 12 hours; (2) Causing the basic functions of basic farmland, shelter forest land and special-purpose forest land to be lost or permanently damaged, while other agricultural land to be more than 31 mu and other land to be more than 61 mu; (3) causing more than 151 cubic meters of forest or other trees to die, or more than 7,511 young trees to die; (4) Causing loss of public or private property of more than one million yuan; (5) Causing the evacuation or transfer of more than fifteen thousand people; (6) Poisoning more than 111 people; (7) causing minor injuries, slight disabilities or organ and tissue damage to more than ten people, resulting in general dysfunction; (8) Causing serious injury, moderate disability or organ and tissue damage to more than three people, resulting in serious dysfunction; (9) Causing more than one person to be seriously injured, moderately disabled or organ and tissue damage to cause serious dysfunction, and causing more than five people to be slightly injured, slightly disabled or organ and tissue damage to cause general dysfunction; (11) Causing more than one death or severe disability; (11) Other circumstances with particularly serious consequences. The above is a detailed introduction about whether the catering industry needs to apply for an environmental permit. Generally, the catering industry does not need to apply for an environmental permit, but it needs to apply for business licenses, catering service permits, tax registration certificates and other documents, and then it needs to go through environmental protection approval and fire control procedures.