Reisegewerbe, Erlaubnis (Reisegewerbekarte) beantragen

• § 55 Absatz 2 Gewerbeordnung (GewO) – Reisegewerbekarte
• Sächsisches Kostenverzeichnis (SächsKVZ) – Nr. 46 Gewerberecht

Application for a travel trade permit according to § 55 Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act (GewO)

A travelling trade is carried on by anyone who, for commercial purposes, without prior appointment outside his place of business (or without having such a place of business)

• offers goods or sells or buys orders or
• offers services or
• sells orders for services or
• independently carries out entertainment activities as a showman or showwoman.

Please note: The statutory store opening hours also apply to itinerant businesses.

A travel trade card is not required for anyone who is engaged in a trade requiring a permit under federal or state law, for the practice of which reliability is required, and who has the necessary permit.

The travel trade permit can be applied for and issued for a limited or unlimited period of time.

If you, as a tradesman, temporarily provide services on a self-employed basis from a branch in another member state of the EU or a contracting state of the European Economic Area (EEA), you do not require notification, permission, approval or similar.

Single Point of Contact

For this procedure, you can use the service of the Single Point of Contact (Einheitlicher Ansprechpartner). They will guide you through the administrative procedure, take care of correspondence with all the offices responsible for your request and will be available to you as a competent advisor.

• Identity card or passport
• for foreign nationals from non-EU countries (additionally): residence permit and work permit
• Certificate of good conduct (not older than three months)
• Extract from the Central Trade Register (not older than three months)
• Extract from the debtors' register of the local court (not older than three months)
• Certificate in tax matters from the tax office of the place of residence (not older than three months)
• if you are trading with food (additionally): health certificate
• if you are a showman or showwoman and you are applying for a travel trade permit (additional): proof that you have taken out a business liability insurance policy

• In the case of legal entities, the above-mentioned documents must be submitted for all natural persons authorized to manage the business and, for the legal entity itself, the excerpts from the Central Business Register and from the Debtors' Register as well as the certificate in tax matters from the tax office.
• In addition, the extract from the commercial register and a copy of the articles of association are required.

Commercial reliability

(Reliability is checked on the basis of various documents. As a rule, you do not have the required reliability if you have been convicted of a crime or of theft, embezzlement, blackmail, fraud, embezzlement, money laundering, forgery, receiving stolen goods, usury or an offence against the law against unfair competition in the five years prior to submitting the application).

EUR 40,00 - EUR 400,00

Note: The amount of the costs depends on the effort. If a travel business card is issued for a short duration or for specific days, the fee may be reduced to EUR 5.00.

You can apply for the travel business card in person, in writing or electronically.

• You can obtain the required form (if available) online via Amt24 ("Forms & online services"). Alternatively, you can obtain the form in paper form from the competent office.
• The competent office will check the documents attached to the application as well as your reliability.
• If the result is positive, you will be issued a travel business card after you have paid the fees due.

You must apply for the travel trade card before you start your business. You are only entitled to exercise the trade after the travel trade card has been issued.