Blanket Licensing Restricts Market Entry

This provision requires all meteorological service providers to obtain licenses from the Authority, extending beyond safety-critical functions (like aviation forecasting) to capture general weather data services, analytics, and any "meteorological transactions." This creates substantial market entry barriers through mandatory licensing, criminal background checks, equipment inspection fees, and Authority-determined requirements (30). Unlike typical OECD practice that licenses only safety-critical meteorological functions, this blanket requirement affects weather data aggregators, agricultural technology companies, climate analytics startups, and any business engaged in meteorological transactions - creating compliance costs and administrative delays that exceed democratic norms for non-safety-critical information services.