Show travel trade or travel trade card free activity

• You can file a notification of a travel business or a "travel business card-free activity" in person, in writing or electronically.
• Once you have submitted the application and all documents are complete, the responsible office will check whether all requirements for the notification have been met.
• If all documents are complete, you have fulfilled your obligation to notify.
• Only when you have fulfilled the obligation to notify, you may start your activity.

Please contact the local municipal administration of the independent municipality, the association of municipalities or the municipal administrations of the independent and district towns of your usual place of residence.

For cases under Section 55 c GewO, the local Chamber of Industry and Commerce is also the point of contact.

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

Start of a notifiable traveling trade for which a duty of notification does not already exist according to the Trade Regulation Act.

To ensure that you comply with your duty of notification in good time, you must

• complete the relevant application form and send it to the competent authority before commencing your activity

• attach to the application form enclose the required documents

• Completed application form
• Copy of identity card or comparable identification document / If applicable, residence permit with the note "Erwerbstätigkeit gestattet" if applicant is not from a country of the European Union, the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland.
• For proof of entrepreneurial legal form:
  • If you have your company's registered office in Germany, you will need: in the case of registered companies, an extract from the register (e.g. commercial register, register of cooperatives); in the case of unregistered companies, a copy of the articles of association
  • If you have your company headquarters abroad, you will need documents from the country of domicile proving the legal form.

Is based on the respective administrative fee regulations of the state or on the fee statutes of the bodies responsible under state law.

You must immediately report your trade activity with admission. If you do not report, do not report correctly, do not report completely or do not report in time, you will be fined.

In case of written or electronic notification, you will receive the receipt of your notification in a timely mannerprovided that the notification form complete and correctly filled out and the required documents are available.

• § Section 14 (1) sentences 2 and 3, (4) to (12) GewO
• § 15 Para. 1 GewO
• Trade Notification Ordinance (GewAnzV)
• § Section 55c Trade Regulation Act (GewO)

• § Section 55a "Travel trade license-exempt activities" Trade Regulation Act (GewO)

• Objection (depending on state law, the objection may be excluded)
• Administrative law action

• Written form required: no
• Online procedure possible: yes
• Personal appearance required: no

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