Dienstleistungsportal Bayern

Description

Prerequisites

You would like to become self-employed in a trade that does not require a license or a trade similar to a trade.

Procedure

Notification of the start must be submitted immediately to the Chamber of Skilled Crafts in whose district the commercial establishment is located. The entry is then made in the business register.

Special notes

You can become self-employed in trades that do not require a license and in trades similar to trades without any special licensing requirements.

Deadlines

The start or end of the independent operation of a craft that does not require a license or a craft-like trade as a standing trade must be reported immediately.

Required documents

• Registration of a trade or business (may be submitted at a later date)

• Copy of the proprietor's identity card or comparable identification document

Forms

Please select a location in "Localization" so that the address of the responsible authority can be filled in.

• Prefillable Form, Bavaria-wide: Formloser Antrag (mit Unterschrift)

  Please note

  This form has to be signed and sent to the responsible authority. You can sign the form manually and send it by email/fax or sign the form electronically with your qualified electronic signature an send it by (secure) email. If the responsible authority has set up a De-Mail account, you can also send the form by De-Mail using an sender-confirmed message.

Fees

• approx. 70 - 153 EUR
  
  Electronic payment via online banking is possible. Information on this is provided by the relevant Chamber of Skilled Crafts.

Legal bases

• §§ 18 - 20 Gesetz zur Ordnung des Handwerks (Handwerksordnung - HwO)

  zulassungsfreie Handwerke und handwerksähnliche Gewerbe

• Gebührenordnung der Handwerkskammer

Links to more information

• Anlage B zum Gesetz zur Ordnung des Handwerks (Handwerksordnung - HwO)

  Verzeichnis der Gewerbe, die als zulassungsfreie Handwerke oder handwerksähnliche Gewerbe betrieben werden können

Related issues

• Vocational training in the skilled crafts; application for recognition of professional qualification to train
• Craft; determination of necessity of craft registration.
• Crafts law; notification of cross-border provision of services in a craft requiring a license
• Register of Craftsmen; Application for registration
• Register of Craftsmen; application for authorization to practice or exemption from registration
• List of unlicensed trades or trades similar to trades; application for information