---
title: "PermissionHeld"
description: "a registration, a licence, an approval or a certification one party holds in one country in one role, as a regulator's register records it"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/permissionheld
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# PermissionHeld

a registration, a licence, an approval or a certification one party holds in one country in one role, as a regulator's register records it

[figure: PermissionHeld is a fact at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | fact |
| scope | follows |
| key | the holder, the register and the identifier |
| store | postgres |
| family | market |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `holder` | `id` | yes | the entity |
| `kind` | `one of registration \| licence \| approval \| certification` | yes |  |
| `register` | `id` | yes | the source, a regulator's register |
| `identifier` | `text` | yes | as the register writes it |
| `country` | `text` | yes |  |
| `role` | `one of maker \| importer \| distributor \| licensee \| operator \| affiliate \| provider \| payer` | yes |  |
| `since` | `date` | yes |  |
| `until` | `date` | no |  |
| `evidence` | [EvidenceRef](/concepts/evidenceref) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns PermissionHeld directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.