Apply for a travel trade license

Once you have submitted the application for a traveling trade license to your competent authority and all documents are complete, the competent authority will check whether you meet the relevant requirements.

If all documents are complete, you will receive the requested travel trade license.

In Rhineland-Palatinate, the local trade offices are responsible.

Alternatively, you can contact the Single Point of Contact in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Single Point of Contact is a public body through which you can handle all administrative procedures and formalities required for the commencement and exercise of your service activity and for the recognition of a foreign professional qualification. Further information can be found on the website of the Point of Single Contact.

• Einheitlicher Ansprechpartner in Verwaltungsangelegenheiten

• Commercial reliability

(Reliability is checked on the basis of various documents. As a rule, you do not have the required reliability if you have been convicted of a crime or of theft, embezzlement, extortion, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, forgery, receiving stolen goods, usury or an offense against the Unfair Competition Act in the five years prior to submitting the application).

• Identity document
  • Identity card or other official identification document with photo (not required for electronic applications).
  • Residence permit if the applicant is not a national of an EU country.
• Certificate of good conduct for presentation to an authority
  • according to document type O.
• Extract from the central trade register for submission to an authority
  • according to document type 9.
• Current excerpt from the commercial or association register
  • Registeredcompanies should submit a current extract from the register when applying. Legal entities in the process of being founded (GmbH, AG) submit the articles of association or articles of incorporation.
• If applicable, certificate from the public health department confirming instruction in accordance with the Infection Protection Act
  • According to the regulations of the Infection Protection Act, this is only required when manufacturing, treating or placing food on the market

Is based on the respective administrative fee schedule of the federal state or on the fee statutes of the authorities responsible under federal state law.

The itinerant trade license must be issued before the start of the activity, so it is necessary to submit the application in good time (several weeks before the intended start of operations).

If you have applied for a permit for a traveling trade activity, the permit is deemed to have been granted if the authority has not made a decision on your application within three months of receiving the complete documentation

It is an offense to operate without the required travel trade license.

If the documents are complete, the application will be processed promptly.

• § Section 55 of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act (GewO)
• §§ Sections 55a, 55b of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)

• § Section 55 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)

• Appeal (depending on national law, the appeal may be excluded)
• Administrative court action

• Online procedure possible: yes (if offered)
• Written form required: no
• Personal appearance required: no

If you have a traveling trade card, you are obliged to carry it with you while carrying out your trade. If you use a sales outlet or other facility (e.g. a sales trolley), you must display your surname and first name or company name visibly on the outside.

Self-employed entertainment activities as a showman or showwoman or as a showman or showwoman belong to the traveling trade and require a traveling trade card on the part of the person running the business. If the person running the business does not work at the location of the performance themselves, they must provide the employees present there with a duplicate of the traveling trade license.

Anyone who is self-employed as a showman or showwoman or who carries out an insurable activity in the traveling trade must take out liability insurance for himself and the persons employed in his business to cover personal injury and property damage caused by his or their activity and maintain it for the duration of his activity.

03.04.2025