Leistungen A-Z

• Each city/municipality has different forms that you can have sent to you in advance
• Written form required: no
• Personal appearance on site when applying: no
• Online procedure possible: yes

You are engaged in a travelling trade if you offer goods for sale on a commercial basis without a prior order (appointment) and are active outside your commercial establishment (Section 4 (3) GewO) or without having such an establishment. The same applies if you seek out (distribute) orders for goods or purchase goods, offer services or seek out orders for services or carry out entertainment activities as a showman or in the manner of a showman.

However, there are also activities that can be classified as travelling trade, but for which there is no obligation to obtain a permit. You do not need a travel trade permit in the following cases:

• You occasionally offer goods for sale at trade fairs, exhibitions, public festivals or on special occasions with the permission of the competent authority;
• you sell home-grown produce from agriculture and forestry, market gardening, fruit-growing and horticulture, poultry farming and bee-keeping as well as hunting and fishing;
• you carry on one of the activities referred to in Section 55(1)(1) of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act in your municipality of residence or in the municipality of your commercial establishment, provided that the municipality has no more than 10 000 inhabitants;
• you supply milk or, in the case of this activity, milk products on the basis of a licence pursuant to Section 4 of the Milk and Margarine Act.
• They broker or conclude insurance contracts within the meaning of Section 34d(6) or (7)(1) and (2) of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act (Gewerbeordnung) or building society contracts as insurance intermediaries or provide advice on insurance within the meaning of Section 34d(2)(1) in conjunction with Section 34d(7)(2) as insurance advisers or are employed in the business of such an insurance adviser.
• They exercise a trade requiring a licence under federal or state law, for the exercise of which reliability is required, and already have the necessary licence;
• They broker financial investments as financial investment brokers or advise third parties on financial investments within the meaning of section 34f(3)(4), also in conjunction with section 34h(1)(4) of the GewO, or are employed in the business of such a broker;
• They broker real estate loan agreements or advise third parties on such agreements within the meaning of Section 34i(4), also in conjunction with Section 34i(5), GewO;
• They distribute foodstuffs or other goods for daily use at regular, shorter intervals at the same location from a non-fixed sales outlet or other facility;
• They offer printed matter for sale on public ways, streets, squares or other public places.
• They seek out other persons in the course of their business.
• They are active at an event established in accordance with Section 69 of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act (GewO) under Title IV (trade fairs, exhibitions, markets).

• The granting of a travel trade permit requires the applicant to be reliable in the sense of trade law.

• Identity card or passport with registration certificate from the municipality of residence
• Certificate of good conduct for submission to authorities from the registration office of the main place of residence
• Extract from the commercial register from the registration office of the main place of residence
• Certificate in tax matters from the responsible tax office
• In the case of legal entities, a certificate in tax matters from the tax office for them as well.
• If applicable, an extract from the commercial register of the country in which the main place of business is located (only for legal entities).
• If necessary, a translation of the extract from the commercial register (only for foreign legal entities)

Is based on the respective administrative fee regulations of the state or on the fee statutes of the bodies responsible under state law.

Supplement State of Brandenburg:

The costs are based on sections 2.2.9 et seq. of the Ordinance on Administrative Fees in the Portfolio of the Minister for Economic Affairs, Labour and Energy (MWAEGebO)

You can apply for the travel trade card at your local municipality or city administration/trade office. To do this, contact the municipality or city administration in which you have your usual place of residence or in which the future business will have its registered office.

The activity may only be commenced once the travel trade card has been issued.

The trade licensing offices of the local authorities, independent municipalities, association municipalities, co-administrative municipalities, co-administrative municipalities and independent cities are responsible.

• Sections 55, 55a, 55b, 55f of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act (GewO) in conjunction with the Showmen's Liability Ordinance (SchauHV), 57 (2) and (3), 60b GewO

• §§ 55 ff. Trade Regulations (GewO)
• § Section 55 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)

In some cases, you may also have to provide additional documents or evidence. Please clarify this with your responsible office.

In the case of legal entities (GmbH, Unternehmensgesellschaften, AG, registered cooperatives), the application form only needs to be completed for the legal entity itself. All personal documents must be obtained for all natural persons entitled to manage the company (e.g. certificate of good conduct for submission to the authorities) or submitted (e.g. personal papers).

In the case of partnerships which are not themselves eligible for a permit (GbR, KG, OHG, PartG, GmbH & Co. KG), each managing partner requires a permit (travel trade card), so that an application form and all personal documents are required for each one.

• Business start-up portal of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on the subject of trade/travel industry

Hessian Ministry for Economy, Energy, Transport and Housing