Craft or trade similar to a craft that is not subject to licensing; notification
If you start a business in an unlicensed craft or craft-like trade, you must notify the Chamber of Crafts and have yourself entered in a register.
Description
You can become self-employed in crafts that are not subject to licensing and in crafts similar to crafts without any special licensing requirements. You must immediately notify the Chamber of Crafts in whose district your commercial establishment is located of the operation of an admission-free craft or a craft-like trade and have yourself entered in the register of admission-free crafts and crafts-like trades.
Upon registration in the register of crafts and crafts-like businesses that are exempt from registration, the business becomes a member of the Chamber of Crafts and is obligated to pay dues in accordance with the dues regulations of the respective Chamber of Crafts.
Prerequisites
You would like to become self-employed in an unlicensed trade or a trade similar to a trade.
Procedure
Notification of commencement must be made without delay to the Chamber of Crafts in whose district the commercial establishment is located. Thereupon, the entry in the business register takes place.
Special notes
In the trades that are not subject to licensing and in the trades similar to trades, you can become self-employed without any special licensing requirements.
Deadlines
The beginning or end of the independent operation of a craft that is exempt from registration or a craft-like trade as a standing trade must be reported immediately.
Required documents
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Registration of a trade or business (may be submitted at a later date)
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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.
Links to more information
Status: 14.04.2023
Responsible for editing: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Landesentwicklung und Energie
- Online transactions, Bavaria-wide
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- Prefillable Form, Bavaria-wide
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- Fees, Bavaria-wide
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