The competent authority has banned you from practicing your trade due to unreliability. However, you would now like to resume your commercial activity. After one year, or earlier if there are special reasons, the authority may allow you to resume your trade upon application.

The prerequisite is that you can prove to the competent authority that the reasons that led to the prohibition of your trade no longer exist. Based on your conduct in the meantime, the competent authority must also be able to predict that you will carry out your trade properly in the future.

As a rule, you can only be re-authorized after one year. This period is considered appropriate in order to demonstrate to the authorities that the reasons for unreliability have ceased to exist by changing your lifestyle. For overriding reasons - for example economic or structural policy reasons - the exercise of the trade may be permitted again earlier in exceptional cases. This applies, for example, in the event that the resumption of the trade creates additional jobs or enables creditors of your business to reduce their debts by generating income in your business to repay debts. The mere cessation of the circumstances justifying unreliability is not sufficient to shorten the one-year period.