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Trade - organising trade fairs, exhibitions and markets am Standort Ordnungsamt Mitte - Zentrale Anlauf- und Beratungsstelle
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- Bezirksamt Mitte
- Ordnungsamt Mitte - Zentrale Anlauf- und Beratungsstelle
- Karl-Marx-Allee 31 , 10178 Berlin
- Zentrale Anlauf- und Beratungsstelle (ZAB)
- Tel.: (030) 9018-22010
- Fax: (030) 9018-23781
- E-mail: ordnungsamt-zab@ba-mitte.berlin.de
Contact person
Opening hours
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09:00-15:00 Uhr (Telefonsprechstunde)
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Tuesday
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09:00-15:00 Uhr (Telefonsprechstunde)
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Thursday
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10:00-13:00 Uhr (Telefonsprechstunde)
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Friday
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09:00-13:00 Uhr (Telefonsprechstunde)
Changes in opening hours
Derzeit ist die telefonische Entgegennahme von Anliegen nur sehr eingeschränkt möglich.
Verkehrsanbindungen
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S-Bahn
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S+U Jannowitzbrücke
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S Hackescher Markt
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S Ostbahnhof
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf
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U-Bahn
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U Schillingstr.
- U5
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf
- U2
- U5
- U8
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U Strausberger Platz
- U5
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S+U Jannowitzbrücke
- U8
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U Klosterstr.
- U2
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U Schillingstr.
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Bus
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U Schillingstr.
- N5
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Alexanderstr.
- N60
- N65
- 300
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U Strausberger Platz
- N5
- 142
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Mollstr./Otto-Braun-Str.
- 142
- 200
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U Alexanderplatz [Tram]
- N5
- N60
- N65
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U Schillingstr.
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Tram
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Büschingstr.
- M5
- M6
- M8
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Mollstr./Otto-Braun-Str.
- M5
- M6
- M4
- M8
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U Alexanderplatz [Tram]
- M5
- M4
- M6
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Platz der Vereinten Nationen
- M5
- M6
- M8
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf/Dircksenstr.
- M2
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Büschingstr.
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Regionalbahn
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf
- RE1
- RE8
- RB23
- RE2
- FEX
- RE7
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S Ostbahnhof
- RE1
- RE8
- RB23
- RE2
- RE7
- RB21
- FEX
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S+U Alexanderplatz Bhf
Information on the address of this location
Die Zentrale Anlauf- und Beratungsstelle des Ordnungsamtes Mitte finden Sie in der 11. Etage im Rathaus Mitte, Raum 1140.Payment options
- Barzahlung
- Girocard (mit PIN)
Dienstleistungsbeschreibung
Trade - organising trade fairs, exhibitions and markets
If you, as a commercial supplier, wish to organise a trade fair, an exhibition, a wholesale market, a weekly market, a special and funfair or a folk festival, you can apply for the event in question to be scheduled. This authorisation entails a number of benefits (market privileges), for example:
An exhibition is a temporary event at which a large number of exhibitors display and sell a representative range of products from one or more economic sectors or economic areas or provide information about these products for the purpose of promoting sales.
A wholesale market is an event at which a large number of suppliers sell certain goods or goods of all kinds mainly to commercial resellers, commercial consumers or bulk buyers.
A weekly market is a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors offer one or more of the following types of goods for sale:
A speciality market is generally a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors offer certain goods for sale.
A fair is generally a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors offer goods of all kinds for sale.
Activities in the sense of folk festivals can also be carried out at a speciality market or funfair.
A folk festival is generally a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors perform entertaining activities in the travelling trade and offer goods for sale that are usually offered at events of this kind.
Procedure flow:
1. submit an application for the authorisation of an event. You can do this informally in writing to the responsible public order office.
- Exemption from trade law regulations for standing trades (e.g. trade licence)
- Exemption from trade law regulations on travelling trade (e.g. travelling trade licence requirement)
- Exemption from restrictions of the Berlin Shop Opening Act (the opening hours stipulated in the notice of determination take its place)
An exhibition is a temporary event at which a large number of exhibitors display and sell a representative range of products from one or more economic sectors or economic areas or provide information about these products for the purpose of promoting sales.
A wholesale market is an event at which a large number of suppliers sell certain goods or goods of all kinds mainly to commercial resellers, commercial consumers or bulk buyers.
A weekly market is a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors offer one or more of the following types of goods for sale:
- Food, generally excluding alcoholic beverages. However, alcoholic beverages are permitted if they are made from home-grown products from viticulture, agriculture or fruit and horticulture.
- Products from fruit growing and horticulture, agriculture, forestry and fishing.
- raw natural products with the exception of larger livestock.
A speciality market is generally a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors offer certain goods for sale.
A fair is generally a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors offer goods of all kinds for sale.
Activities in the sense of folk festivals can also be carried out at a speciality market or funfair.
A folk festival is generally a regularly recurring, time-limited event at which a large number of vendors perform entertaining activities in the travelling trade and offer goods for sale that are usually offered at events of this kind.
Procedure flow:
1. submit an application for the authorisation of an event. You can do this informally in writing to the responsible public order office.
- You do not need a licence to hold private markets (e.g. flea markets). A private market is then subject to the regulations for the standing trade or the travelling trade.
- The determination of a weekly market, a funfair or a special market obliges you to organise the event.
- If you do not or no longer organise a designated fair, exhibition or wholesale market, you must notify the competent authority immediately.
Prerequisites
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Commercial supplier
You would like to have the event registered as a commercial vendor. You do not need a licence for private markets (e.g. flea markets). A private market is then subject to the regulations for the standing trade or the travelling trade -
Personal reliability
They must have the required reliability. Reliability is checked on the basis of various proofs. -
Compliance with the criteria of the trade regulations
The above-mentioned formal criteria of the trade regulations must be met for the event to be authorised. -
Suitability of the event location
The venue must be suitable for the event in question, e.g. speciality and funfairs may not be held wholly or partly in shops.
Documents required
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Application to schedule an event
You can do this informally in writing to the responsible public order office. -
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. -
Purchasing or rental contract
To prove that you have the actual power of disposal over the event rooms/areas. -
Ground plan
Floor plans of the rooms/areas intended for the event (if possible on a scale of 1:100). -
Event concept
The concept should include measures to ensure the protection of event participants from danger to life or health, as well as measures to prevent other significant disruptions to public safety or order. -
Liability insurance
Copy of a valid liability insurance of the organiser. -
For registered companies and legal entities in the process of being established: Current excerpt from the commercial register or partnership agreement
Registered companies are required to submit an up to date excerpt from the Trade Register.
Legal entities that are in the process of being established (GmbH, AG, UG) are required to submit a notarised copy of their partnership agreement or statutes as well as statements of approval by their associates. -
Conditions of participation and market regulations
Conditions of participation or market regulations governing the admission and participation of vendors for the respective event.
Fees
50.00 to 2,000.00 euros (depending on expenditure)
12.50 to 500.00 euros: Amendment or revocation of the determination (depending on the initial fee)
Legal basis
- Trade regulations (GewO) § 69 determination
- Trade Regulations (GewO) § 64 - Trade fairs
- Trade Regulations (GewO) § 65 - Exhibition
- Trade regulations (GewO) § 66 - Wholesale market
- Trade Regulations (GewO) § 67 - Weekly market
- Trade Regulations (GewO) § 68 – Speciality and funfair
- Trade Regulations (GewO) § 60b - public festival
- Berlin Code of Administrative Charges (Verwaltungsgebührenordnung - VGebO)
Average time to process request
approx. 2-6 weeks
More information
- Reisegewerbe - Reisegewerbekarte beantragen (Dienstleistung)
- Special road use - Flying street trading from sales vehicles (Service)
- Gastronomic trade - request permission for a special reason (Service)
- Informationen zu Märkten und Straßenfeste (IHK Berlin)
- Informationen zu Veranstaltungssicherheit (Berliner Feuerwehr)
- Barrier-free construction (Senate Department for Urban Development)
- Servicesite: Events, trade fairs, markets, marketing (Service Portal Berlin)
- Overview of markets in Berlin (The Official Website of Berlin)
- Directory of Berlin's weekly and flea markets (Senate Department for Economic Affairs)
- Note on data protection (Public order offices of the state of Berlin)
Hinweise zur Zuständigkeit
You can only apply to the public order office responsible for the event location to have an event organised.