Our employees only speak German in the office and on the phone.

Apply for a permit to supply / dispense certain hazardous substances and mixtures in accordance with ChemVerbotsV

  • Unternehmensstart und Gewerbezulassung

If you wish to place particularly hazardous substances or mixtures on the market for private end users, you require a permit from the competent authority.

  • Basic information

    If you wish to supply substances or mixtures to private end users or make them available to third parties on a commercial basis or independently as part of a commercial enterprise, which must be labeled in accordance with the CLP Regulation (Regulation EC No. 1272/2008) with

    1. one of the hazard pictograms GHS06 (skull with crossed bones) or
    2. GHS08 (health hazard) and the signal word Danger, and one of the hazard statements H340, H350, H350i, H360, H360F, H360D, H360FD, H360Fd, H360Df, H370 or H372

    you require a permit.

    Before you intend to supply or make products available at retail, you must check the need to apply for a permit.

    Your company will receive this permit if you employ at least one person who

    • has proven their expertise in accordance with Section 11 (1) of the Chemicals Prohibition Ordinance (ChemVerbotsV),
    • has the necessary reliability and
    • is at least 18 years old.

    In the case of companies with several establishments, there must be a person who meets these requirements in each establishment where substances and mixtures covered by Annex II ChemVerbotsV are offered.

    The permit may be restricted to individual hazardous substances and mixtures or to groups of hazardous substances and mixtures. It may be granted subject to conditions. Conditions may also be imposed retrospectively.

    The following do not require a permit

    • pharmacies
    • Manufacturers, importers and distributors who supply the aforementioned substances and preparations only to resellers, professional users or public research, testing or teaching institutions

    Requirements

    At least one person in the company who

    • has proven their expertise in accordance with the Chemicals Prohibition Ordinance (ChemVerbotsV),
    • has the necessary reliability and
    • is at least 18 years old.

    Companies receive the permit if they employ persons who meet these requirements in every business premises where substances and mixtures covered by Annex II ChemVerbotsV are offered.

  • Procedure

    You can apply in writing to the competent authority for a permit to supply particularly hazardous substances, mixtures and products to private end users in accordance with the ChemVerbotsV.

    Once you have submitted the application and all documents are complete, the competent authority will check whether you meet all the requirements.

    If you meet the requirements, you will be granted a permit for the supply and distribution of hazardous substances and mixtures as defined in Annex 2 column 1 ChemVerbotsV to private end users.

    You may only start the activity once you have received the permit.

    More information

    Proof of expertise is a prerequisite for the granting of a permit. Qualified persons are

    • Druggists (under certain conditions),
    • pharmacists or pharmacists,
    • Pharmacy engineers or pharmacy engineers,
    • Pharmaceutical-technical assistants or pharmaceutical-technical assistants,
    • pharmacy assistants or pharmacy assistants,
    • certified pest controllers or pest controllers or
    • persons who have completed vocational training as pest controllers.

    For these persons, the legislator assumes that they have acquired the expertise as part of their training.

    Legal remedy:

    • Administrative court action
    • Objection

  • Necessary Documents
    • Documents proving that you meet the above requirements for the issue of a permit:
      1. Copy of the certificate(s) of competence of all competent persons
      2. Copy of the certificate of attendance of the last training course attended in accordance with Section 11 (2) ChemVerbotsV for all competent persons
      3. Certificate of good conduct of document type O for submission to authorities of all competent persons
      4. Identity card of the applicant

  • Competent Department

  • Fees / Costs

    102,00 EUR bis 700,00 EUR Issuance of a permit according to § 6 ChemVerbotsV
    Fee in case of rejection: according to time spent in accordance with the hourly rate of the General Cost Ordinance (AllkostV) Bremen in the currently valid version

  • Deadlines & processing time

    What deadlines must be paid attention to?

    You may only start work once you have received the permit.

    How long does it take to process

    1 day bis 14 days from completeness of the documents depending on expenditure

  • Legal Bases

Feedback on quality

Your feedback will help us to identify and solve problems. You will not receive a personal response. Please do not submit any personal data.

Did you find what you were looking for?
How do you rate this page?*
*Mandatory field

This page has been automatically translated by DeepL. We cannot guarantee that the translation is correct.

The official information in German is complete and correct. 16.01.2026

Dienstleistungen · syfq nzm