Itinerary trade permission at the location Ordnungsamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf

Itinerary trade permission

You are considered to be carrying on an itinerary trade, if you are offering goods or arranging or acquiring orders or offering services or arranging for services by order,

• in a commercial manner and independent of previously placed orders,
• outside of a registered,
• place of business,

Such activities require permission (itinerary trade card).

This includes in particular

• dvisits to homes or businesses (door-to-door selling) independent of previously placed orders,
• offering goods and services in streets or on squares,
• entertaining activities as show people or travelling performers (trades typical of public festivals).

Any extension of the activities or the offered goods or services requires renewed permission and will be added to the existing itinerary trade card upon application.

The itinerary trade card is valid nationwide.

Any additional staff members must hold a duplicate or a certified copy of your itinerary trade card.
The itinerary trade card or its copy or duplicate must be carried during the itinerary trade activities.

There are a few activities that do not require an itinerary trade card.
Those include

• sale of food products or other everyday consumer goods, provided that these are sold from non-stationary i.e. from mobile sales outlets at the same place at regular short intervals,
• offering printed media as a street vendor (mobile newspaper sales)

In these cases, your trade must only be registered with the competent Public Order Office for your place of residence. No verification of reliability is carried out in these cases.

Online processing

Service provided online

Prerequisites

• Personal reliability
  Reliability is verified based on the certificate of good conduct and the statement from the Commercial Central Register

Documents required

• Certificate of good conduct
  Certificate of good conduct from the German Federal Central Criminal Register for presentation to an authority (certificate type 0).
  The certificate must be applied for in the municipality of residence (in the case of Berlin at any Citizens’ Office) for presentation to an authority. This means that it will be sent directly to the relevant authority. The certificates must be no older than three months. They can also be applied for with the Federal Office of Justice.
  Required: electronic identity card or electronic residence permit and card reader
• Excerpt from the Commercial Central Register, regarding a natural entity
  Statement from the Commercial Central Register for natural entities, for presentation to an authority (certificate type 9).
  The certificate must be applied for in the municipality of residence (in the case of Berlin at any Citizens’ Office) for presentation to an authority. This means that it will be sent directly to that authority. The certificates must be no older than three months.
  They can also be applied for with the Federal Office of Justice.
  Required: electronic identity card or electronic residence permit and card reader
• Excerpt from the Commercial Central Register, regarding a legal entity
  Statement from the commercial central register for legal entities, for presentation to an authority (certificate type 9).
  The statement must be applied for with the competent Public Order Office for the place of business.
• Excerpt from the Trade Register
  Registered companies are required to submit an up to date excerpt from the Trade Register when applying. Legal entities that are in the process of being established (GmbH, AG) are required to submit their partnership agreement or statutes.
• ID-Card of the German national
  Identity card or other official identification including a photograph
• Instruction pursuant to the Infection Protection Act
  only required if food items are being offered

Forms

• Application for an itinerant trade card

Fees

Legal basis

• Trade Regulations

More information

• CCI Berlin - fact sheet itinerant trade
• Infection protection law
• Online application certificate of good conduct, excerpt from the Commercial Central Register
• Information about privacy