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 other establishment at regular, shorter intervals at the same location;

Anyone who offers printed matter 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 expand it to include goods or services that are not customary in your trade or

you give up your traveling trade.

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 legal form of the company:

If you have your registered office in Germany, you will need: for registered companies, an extract from the register (e.g. commercial register, register of cooperatives), for unregistered companies, a copy of the articles of association

If your company is based abroad, you will need documents from the country in which your company is based to prove its legal form.

You must report your business activity immediately upon commencement. If you do not make the notification or do not do so correctly, completely or on time, you will be fined.