Collections: Permission requirement

Source: BUS Rheinland-Pfalz

In Rhineland-Palatinate, collections require permission if they are collected by direct action from person to person (e.g. in the case of door-to-door or street collections).

Please contact

for collections within a district: to the district administration or, in a city not belonging to a district, to the city administration,
for supra-regional collections: to the Supervisory and Service Directorate (ADD), Department 23.

You can also contact the Single Point of Contact for administrative matters.

The German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) provides information and evaluations of organizations that collect donations. According to its own information, the DZI documents around 1,000 donation organizations in the social, especially humanitarian and charitable sector in its charity archive. The DZI answers inquiries from private individuals, companies, authorities and the media against reimbursement of costs.

Further information is also available from the German Donations Council.

Collections: Permission requirement

Who should I contact?

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