Applying for re-authorization of a trade after prohibition

• Submit an informal written or electronic (e.g. by email) application to the competent authority for re-authorization of the commercial activity and the necessary documents.
• If you resume the activity after the re-authorization, you must at least submit a trade notification to the competent authority at the same time. The resumption is to be assessed as a new start of the trade.
• If you have previously had a permit revoked due to unreliability, which is legally required for the exercise of the trade, you must apply for a new permit before resuming your commercial activity requiring a permit. The same applies if a new permit requirement has been introduced in the meantime.
• The competent authority will check whether you can be permitted to carry out your commercial activity again on the basis of your evidence. To this end, it will make a prognosis decision with regard to the future proper exercise of your trade. Allow 4 to 6 weeks for the examination procedure. In individual cases and depending on the scope of the inspection, it may take longer.
• If the requirements are met, you will receive a positive decision.

More information

Legal remedy

• Appeal
• Administrative court action

• Further information on the intended activity
• Information on the location of the intended business activity
• Certificate of good conduct in document type OG (for submission to an authority)
  

  (to be applied for at the local registration office responsible for your residence)

• Information from the central trade register in document type 9
  

  This can be applied for via the trade registration office. The Senator for Economics, Ports and Transformation -Commercial Affairs-, Katharinenklosterhof 3, 28195 Bremen should be specified as the recipient when applying.

  If a legal entity is planned as the operator, information for this legal entity and the entire management is required.

• Certificate in tax matters of the tax office
  

  (to be applied for at the tax office of the place of residence)

• Extract from the list of debtors of the enforcement court
  

  The debtors' register can only be inspected online at www.vollstreckungsportal.de. Registration is necessary here. You will then receive a PIN by post, which you can use to start your search. The result of your query must be printed out and enclosed with your application.

• Information from the insolvency court as to whether proceedings have been opened
  

  (to be applied for at the district court of the place of residence)

• Proof of how you have secured your livelihood since the trade ban and whether you have worked.
• Current certificates: from the trade tax, tax offices and social insurance agencies
• In the event of a change of residence:
  

  current and previous certificates from the insolvency court, the tax office and the trade tax office (at the time of the trade ban)

• Depending on the case, further documents may be requested to check your reliability.
• In the event of payment arrears at the time of the previous trade ban:
  

  Current certificates from trade, financial and social authorities regarding arrears, repayment agreements and enforcement measures.

500,00 EUR in the case of an ordered re-permission to exercise the trade. Should it be necessary to reject the application for reinstatement, the fee will be reduced by 25 to 75 % depending on the effort involved in accordance with Section 9 (2) of the Bremen Fees and Contributions Act (Bremisches Gebühren- und Beitragsgesetz).

What deadlines must be paid attention to?

Application: at the earliest 1 year after prohibition, in exceptional cases also possible earlier

How long does it take to process

Not specified. Please contact the responsible office

• § 35 Gewerbeordnung
• Kostenverordnung der Wirtschaftsverwaltung (WKostV)
• § 9 Abs. 2 Bremisches Gebühren- und Beitragsgesetz