Apply for authorization to practice a further craft requiring approval

Online application:

• Go to the website of your local Chamber of Skilled Crafts or to the service portal of your federal state and select the right online service.
• The online service will guide you through the application step by step.
• You can submit the required documents digitally.

Written application:

• Go to the website of your local Chamber of Skilled Crafts.
• Download the application forms for granting a license to practice.
• Complete the forms in full and send them to your local Chamber of Skilled Crafts along with the required evidence of your skills.
• Your application and the evidence will be examined by the Chamber of Skilled Crafts. If the evidence is not sufficient, you may be required to take an expert examination.
• After your documents have been checked, you will receive a license to practice and a notice of registration if the requirements are met.
  

Contact the Chamber of Crafts in whose district the commercial establishment is located.

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.

• Website - Single point of contact Rhineland-Palatinate

Chamber of Crafts in whose district the commercial establishment is located.

The following requirements must be met:

• A craft subject to licensing is already being practiced on the basis of an existing entry in the register of crafts.
• Proof of the required knowledge and skills, taking into account previous professional experience and activities; possible means of proof are, for example, appraisals by experts, work certificates or further training.
• The standard for the proof of qualification is the masterly qualification for the craft subject to licensing for which the authorization to practice is being sought.

• Application for the issuance of an exercise authorization
• Proof of identification
• Proof of professional practical and theoretical knowledge in the craft subject to licensing for which you wish to be entered in the register of crafts. This includes:
• Work references,
• certificates of further education,
• certificates of having passed parts of the master craftsman's examination
• Confirmation of regular participation in preparatory courses.

The specific fee results from the fee schedule of the Chamber of Crafts, which is available on the Chamber's website.

You can only exercise the other craft requiring authorization once it has been entered in the register of crafts. An authorization to practice must therefore be applied for at an appropriately early stage.

• § 7a Handwerksordnung (HWO)
• § 7b Handwerksordnung (HWO)

Legal action may be taken against a rejection of an application for entry in the register of skilled crafts. Depending on the federal state in which the application was submitted, a preliminary procedure must first be carried out. Information on the existing legal remedies can be found in the instructions on legal remedies in the notices.

12.09.2023

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.