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Business - registering a trade requiring supervision

Anyone wishing to carry out a trade requiring supervision must, in addition to a trade notification, also prove their personal reliability. The following activities are trades requiring supervision:

1. buying and selling (second-hand goods trade) of

• high-quality consumer goods, e.g. consumer electronics, cameras, video cameras, carpets, furs, etc.
• motor vehicles and bicycles
• precious metals and alloys containing precious metals or corresponding goods
• precious stones, pearls and jewellery
• scrap metals

2. credit agencies, detective agencies
3. arranging marriages, partnerships and acquaintanceships
4. operation of travel agencies and arrangement of accommodation
5. locksmith services, distribution and installation of building security equipment
6. manufacture and distribution of special theft-related opening tools

Online processing

Service provided online

Prerequisites

• Personal reliability
  Reliability is checked on the basis of various forms of evidence. The applicant must provide information from the Federal Central Register (certificate of good conduct) and information from the Central Trade Register.

Documents required

• Trade registration (Gewerbeanmeldung)
  Possible online; or you can use the business registration form.
• Identity document
  Identity card or other official identification document with photo (not required for electronic application). Residence permit if the applicant is not a national of an EU country.
• Certificate of good conduct for presentation to an authority
  To verify personal reliability, information from the Federal Central Register (certificate of good conduct) is required for submission to an authority (document type O).
  The information must not be older than three months.
• Excerpt from the central business register for presentation to an authority
  To verify personal reliability, information from the central business register is required for submission to an authority (document type 9).
  The information must not be older than three months.
• Up-to-date 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.
• Declaration of consent of the shareholders
  Only for business notifications of legal entities in the process of formation
• Supplement for authorised representatives
  In the case of business registrations for legal entities with multiple representatives

Forms

• Trade registration (Gewerbeanmeldung)
• Supplement to the application for authorised representatives
• Declaration of consent of the shareholders

Fees

Legal basis

• Trade regulations (GewO) § 38 - Trades requiring supervision
• Trade Regulations (GewO) § 14 Sec. 1 - Duty of disclosure
• Trade Registration Ordinance (Gewerbeanzeigeverordnung or GewAnzV)
• Schedule of Administrative Fees (Verwaltungsgebührenordnung (VGebO))

More information

• Information about privacy