Apply for exemption from insurance intermediaries

You can apply for permission exemption in writing:

• Download the application form on the website of your local Chamber of Commerce. Complete this completely.
• Then send it to your competent Chamber of Commerce with the necessary documents.
• As soon as you have provided all the information and the documents are complete, the Chamber of Commerce decides on your application.
• After a positive examination, you will receive the exemption from the permit and, if necessary, will be entered in the insurance intermediary register.
• The exemption from the permit is valid for an indefinite period. It does not end until you do without it. Under certain conditions, the Chamber of Commerce may revoke or revoke the exemption from the permit and have you deleted from the intermediary register.

Note: As a rule, your local Chamber of Commerce also offers an online procedure.

Your local Chamber of Commerce

• Identify the chamber of commerce responsible locally
• Find a procedure through the network of points of contact for your state

Your local Chamber of Commerce

• Identify the chamber of commerce responsible locally

• They mediate the insurance only as a supplement to other products or services (accessory)
  • Example: A car dealer also provides car insurance when selling cars
• You are carrying out your duties:
  • on behalf of one or more insurance intermediaries with permission or
  • on behalf of one or more insurance companies
• Your client makes a statement about:
  • Your personal reliability,
  • Your qualifications and
  • Your orderly financial situation
• You have taken out professional insanity insurance. Currently, a minimum cover total of:
  • EUR 1,276,000 for each insured event and
  • EUR 1,919,000 for all claims in a year in total

• Copy of your valid identity card or passport
• for proof of corporate legal form:
  • at headquarters in Germany:
    • extract from the commercial register or the partnership register, in the case of companies registered in a register, otherwise
    • a copy of the social contract
  • at registered office abroad: documents from the country of residence proving the legal form
• Declaration by the client, i.e. the insurance company or the super-intermediary, about your personal reliability, your qualifications and your orderly financial situation

For legal entities, you only need to fill in the application form for the legal entity itself. You must submit all personal documents for all persons entitled to the management. For the legal entity, you also need an excerpt from the business central register.

Partnerships are not eligible for authorisation as such. Therefore, every managing partner needs permission. For each of these persons, you must submit a completed application form and all personal documents.

Attention: Your Chamber of Commerce can request additional documents to verify personal reliability. Some of the documents submitted may not exceed a period of forfeiture at the time of the decision (not only at the time of filing). Please check with your Chamber of Commerce.

• The fees for the exemption of authorisation for product insurance intermediaries and for registration in the insurance intermediary register vary according to the Chamber of Commerce.

No

Note: You may not start your activity until you have received the exemption.

Depending on the Chamber of Commerce.

• Section 34d paragraph 6 Trade Code (GewO)

Forms: you will receive from your responsible Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Online procedure possible: partly, depending on the Chamber of Commerce

Written form required: yes

Personal appearance necessary: no

20.09.2019