Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card

The following activities that do not require a travel trade license must be reported to the competent authority:

• Anyone who offers goods for sale or solicits (sells) or purchases orders, offers services or solicits orders for services in the municipality of their place of residence or commercial establishment, provided the municipality has no more than 10,000 inhabitants;
• Anyone who sells food or other everyday goods from a non-fixed sales outlet or another establishment at regular, shorter intervals at the same location;
• Anyone who offers printed works for sale on public roads, streets, squares or in other public places.

If you carry out one of the above-mentioned activities that do not require a travel trade license, you must notify the competent authority of the start of your trade, unless you have already registered it in accordance with other provisions of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act.

You must also make a notification if

• you change the object of the trade or extend it to goods or services that are not customary in your trade or
• you give up your travel trade activity.

• § 14 Trade Regulations (GewO)
• § Section 15 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
• § Section 55a of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
• § Section 55c of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
• Trade Notification Ordinance (GewAnzV)

• Completed application form
• Copy of identity card or comparable identification document / If applicable, residence permit with the note "Gainful employment permitted" if the applicant does not come from a country of the European Union, the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland
• For proof of the corporate legal form:
  • If you have your registered office in Germany, you will need: an extract from the register (e.g. commercial register, register of cooperatives) for registered companies, a copy of the articles of association for unregistered companies
  • If your company is based abroad, you will need documents from the country in which you are based to prove your legal form.

• You can register a travel trade or a "travel trade card-free activity" in person, in writing or electronically.
• Once you have submitted the application and all the documents are complete, the competent authority will check whether all the requirements for notification have been met.
• If all documents are complete, you have fulfilled your duty of disclosure.
• You may only commence your activity once you have fulfilled the notification obligation.