Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
Only a few activities not requiring a travel trade license must be reported. Please check whether you need to notify the competent authority before taking up an activity that does not require a travel trade license.
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Basic information
The following activities that do not require a travel trade license must be reported to the competent authority:
- Anyone who offers goods for sale or solicits (sells) or purchases orders, offers services or solicits orders for services in the municipality of their place of residence or commercial establishment, provided the municipality has no more than 10,000 inhabitants
- Anyone who sells food or other everyday goods from a non-fixed sales outlet or other establishment at regular, shorter intervals at the same location
- Anyone who offers printed matter for sale on public roads, streets, squares or in other public places.
If you carry out one of the above-mentioned activities that do not require a travel trade license, you must notify the competent authority of the start of your trade, unless you have already registered it in accordance with other provisions of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act.
You must also make a notification if
- you change the object of the trade or expand it to include goods or services that are not customary in your trade or
- you give up your traveling trade.
Requirements
- Start of a notifiable itinerant trade for which there is not already an obligation to notify under the Trade Regulation Act.
- To ensure that you comply with your obligation to notify in good time, you must:
- complete the relevant application form and send it to the competent authority before starting your activity
- enclose the required documents with the application form
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Procedure
- You can register a travel trade or a "travel trade card-exempt activity" in person, in writing or electronically.
- Once you have submitted the application and all documents are complete, the competent authority will check whether all requirements for notification have been met.
- If all documents are complete, you have fulfilled your obligation to notify.
- You may only commence your activity once you have fulfilled the obligation to notify.
- If you have any questions, please contact the responsible office.
More information
Legal remedy:
- Objection
- Administrative action
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Necessary Documents
- Completed application form
- Identity card or passport (copy)
- If applicable, residence permit with the note "Gainful employment permitted" if the applicant does not come from a state of the European Union, the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland
- For proof of the legal form of the company:
- If your company is based in Germany, you will need:
- for registered companies, an extract from the register (e.g. commercial register, register of cooperatives)
- for unregistered companies, a copy of the articles of association
- If your company is based abroad, you will need documents from the country in which your company is based to prove its legal form.
- If your company is based in Germany, you will need:
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Competent Department
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Section Z60: Commercial Affairs – The Senator for Economic Affairs, Ports and Transformation Abschnitt Z60 Gewerbeangelegenheiten - Die Senatorin für Wirtschaft, Häfen und Transformation
- +49 421 361-0
- Katharinenklosterhof 3, 28195 Bremen
- gewerbe
@wht. bremen. de
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Fees / Costs
Please contact the responsible office.
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Deadlines & processing time
What deadlines must be paid attention to?
You must report your business activity immediately upon commencement. If you do not make the notification or do not do so correctly, completely or on time, you will be fined.
How long does it take to process
Please contact the responsible office.
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Legal Bases
- § 14 Absatz 1 Satz 2 und 3, Absatz 4 bis 12 Gewerbeordnung (GewO)
- § 15 Absatz 1 Gewerbeordnung (GewO)
- § 55a Gewerbeordnung (GewO)
- § 55c Gewerbeordnung (GewO)
- Verordnung zur Ausgestaltung des Gewerbeanzeigeverfahrens Gewerbeanzeigeverordnung (GewAnzV)
- Section 15(1) of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
- Section 55a of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
- Section 14(1), second and third sentences, and paragraphs 4 to 12 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
- Section 55c of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
- Regulation on the Organisation of the Business Registration Procedure – Business Registration Regulation (GewAnzV)
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Updated on 23.09.2026