Trading License
You want to set up a business and have to register your business or even have to get a license? Then you should get information on the legal requirements.
Detailed information
The aspect of daily life "Business Start-Up" also offers more information.
Note: If you want to provide a service in Baden-Württemberg as a German, as a member of another EU/EEA State (EU-/EWR-Staat) or as a Swiss national, which is included in the EU Services Directive, you will find under "Self-employment Online" (Selbständigkeit online) detailed information for the specific requirements, which you have to meet, and how to get to the electronic procedure management.
To the procedures and services
- Applying for a certificate of competence for the commercial handling and trading of substances with a risk of explosion
- Applying for a licence to render legal services out of court
- Applying for a licence to run a private hospital
- Applying for a permit for care services
- Applying for a permit for the commercial purchase and handling of explosive materials
- Applying for a permit for the importation of medicines
- Applying for a permit for the manufacture of medicines
- Applying for a permit for the trade of broker, property developer, construction supervisor or loan broker
- Applying for a printout from the Commercial Register (Handelsregister)
- Applying for a public house licence
- Applying for a rental vehicle permit
- Applying for a special-use permit for roads in built-up areas
- Applying for a taxi permit
- Applying for entry in the register of craftsmen
- Applying for entry in the register of craftsmen for entitlement to practise an additional craft
- Applying for information from the register of craftsmen
- Applying for registration in the Register of Brokers
- Applying to operate a pharmacy
- Changing the address of a business
- Commercial goods transport – applying for permission
- Commercial installation of gaming machines with winning possibilities
- Cross-border provision of services by craftsmen from other EU/EEA states
- Deregistering a business
- Directory of businesses which do not require a permit and are similar to crafts - applying for registration
- Entry in the register of craftsmen - applying for an exemption approval in accordance with § 8 HWO
- Entry in the register of craftsmen - applying for entitlement to practise in accordance with § 7b HWO
- Financial investment brokers - applying for a permit
- Inspection of the Commercial Register
- Itinerant Trade License
- License for amusement arcades
- License for auctions
- License for financial services providers according to the German Banking Act
- License for Insurance Brokers and Insurance Consultants
- License for pawnbrokers
- License for security services
- License to manufacture or trade in weapons
- Notification of a seasonal wine tavern ("Straußwirtschaft")
- Operation of medical transport - applying for a permit
- Product-specific insurance brokers - Applying for a permit exemption
- Prohibition of business due to unreliability
- Registering a business
- Registering to sell non-prescription pharmaceutical products
- Registering with the Commercial Register (Handelsregister)
- Registration in the Register of Craftsmen - Exemption for EU citizens (in accordance with § 9 Abs. 1 HWO) - application
- Requesting an excerpt from the Central Trade Register
- Requesting information from the Trade Register (Gewerberegister)
- Temporary license for restaurants
- Trades requiring inspection
- Viewing the legal services register (Rechtsdienstleistungsregister)