apply for restart of business after interdiction

Submit an informal written or electronic (e.g. by e-mail) application to the competent authority for reinstatement of your business activity and the required documents.
The competent authority will check whether you can be permitted to carry out your business activity again on the basis of your evidence. For this purpose, it makes a prognosis decision with regard to the future proper exercise of your trade.
If the requirements are met, you will receive a positive decision.

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.

• Website - Single point of contact Rhineland-Palatinate

The reasons that led to the prohibition no longer exist.
The competent authority must also be able to forecast that you will carry out your trade properly in future on the basis of your behaviour in the meantime.

• Details of the intended activity
• Details of the place where you intend to carry on the trade
• Proof of how you have made a living since your trade was banned and whether you have worked as an employee
• Certificate of good conduct
• extract from the central trade register
• Extract from the debtors' register and certificate from the insolvency court (available from the competent local or insolvency court)
• Current certificates: from the trade tax office, tax office and social insurance agency

Special features in the case of payment arrears:

If you had payment arrears at the time of the previous trade ban, then you must submit current certificates from the trade tax office, tax office and social insurance agency. These certificates must contain information on

• the amount of any outstanding arrears, separated into main and secondary claims
• the period from which the main claim, if any, originates
• repayment agreements concluded after the trade ban, their date of conclusion, regulations and compliance with them
• the implementation of compulsory collection measures, their nature and success

special features in the event of a change of residence:
If you have moved after the trade ban at that time, then the certificates from the debtor file of the insolvency court, the tax office and the trade tax office are required from both the current authorities and the authorities responsible at the time of the trade ban.

The costs are based on the respective administrative fee regulations of the Land as well as on the fee statutes of the bodies responsible under Land law.

• Application: at the earliest 1 year after prohibition, in exceptional cases also earlier possible

• § 35 Absatz 6 Gewerbeordnung (GewO)

• Opposition
• Administrative court action

- Forms: no

- Written form required: no

- Online procedure possible: yes (if offered)

- Personal appearance required: no

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