Dienstleistungsportal Bayern

Description

Prerequisites

The licensing requirements are set out in Section 13 (1), (5a) of the Passenger Transportation Act and the Ordinance on Professional Access to Road Passenger Transportation.

• The entrepreneur or the persons appointed for the management must be reliable.
• The entrepreneur or the persons appointed for the management must be professionally suitable.
• The company must be secure and financially viable.
• The company's registered office or place of business must be in Austria (in the sense of commercial law).
• No threat to traffic efficiency

Procedure

You must apply to the responsible district government for approval to operate a bundled on-demand service.

The district government conducts a hearing procedure. As part of this process, it requests comments from other bodies, including the following

• Municipalities,
• trade supervisory authorities,
• the Chamber of Industry and Commerce
• the relevant trade unions and professional associations.

After the deadline for the comments has expired, it makes a final decision on the application and informs the applicant in writing of the result.

Deadlines

None

Note: If you wish to apply for a permit renewal, a permit application with required documentation must be submitted to the appropriate office well in advance of the expiration of the expiring permit.

Processing time

Usually, the competent body will decide on your application within three months of submission of the verifiable application.

The period can be extended by a maximum of three additional months. The prerequisite is that the competent body has announced this in good time (within the first three months) in a written interim decision.

Required documents

• In particular, the following documents are required:

  • General map showing the area in which the transport is to be carried out
  • Planned tariffs
  • Description of the bundling / registration process and planned bundling rate
  • Information on the emission standards of the vehicles used
  • Information on the accessibility of the vehicles used
  • Proof of personal reliability (not older than three months at the time of application).
    • Extract from the Federal Central Register (certificate of good conduct)
    • Information from the central commercial register
    • Extract from the driver suitability register
  • Extract from the commercial or cooperative register (certified copies)
  • Copy of the articles of association and the list of shareholders
  • for legal entities: Proof of authorization to represent the company
  • Proof of financial capacity (not older than three months at the time of application):
    • Clearance certificates from the tax office
    • Certificate of no objection from the responsible municipality
    • Certificate of no objection from the social security authorities:
      • from health insurance companies with which you insure or have insured employees, and
      • for yourself, if you are or were voluntarily or privately insured.
    • Clearance certificate from the employers' liability insurance association
    • Equity certificate and - if required - additional certificate (not older than twelve months at the time of application)
  • Proof of professional suitability
  • if you appoint other persons to manage the company, you must submit the following documents for them:
    • Certificate of good conduct
    • Information from the central business register
    • Extract from the driver suitability register
    • Proof of professional suitability
    • Proof of employment (employment contract)

  The competent body may request further documents

Legal bases

• § 50 Personenbeförderungsgesetz (PBefG)
• Verordnung über den Betrieb von Kraftfahrunternehmen im Personenverkehr (BOKraft)
• § 15 Abs. 2 Zuständigkeitsverordnung (ZustV)

Remedy

Filing an objection with the authority that issued the administrative act.

Related issues

• Line-demand transport; application for a permit