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Would you like to occasionally offer goods for immediate sale at trade fairs, exhibitions, public festivals or on special occasions? Then you need a permit from the competent authority and do not require a traveling trade card.

If you wish to offer goods for immediate sale at a trade fair or exhibition, a public festival (e.g. community festival, marksmen's festival, inauguration celebrations, etc.) or as part of another special event, you require a permit from the competent authority, but not a traveling trade card.

You must apply for the permit from the competent authority.

If you are already in possession of a traveling trade license that entitles you to offer certain or all goods for sale, this is sufficient. In this case, you no longer require an additional permit to sell at the aforementioned events.

Once you have applied for a permit, the competent authority will decide whether to approve your application to sell the goods. The competent authority issues the permit for a specific location and for a specific event, i.e. for a limited period of time.

The permit is not transferable. It does not replace any other permits and approvals that may have to be obtained from other authorities (e.g. permits under road or traffic law - special use permit).

If the following goods are to be offered for sale at the aforementioned events, no permit is required (as a permit or exemption already exists on another basis):

• You sell products you have obtained yourself from agriculture and forestry, vegetable growing, fruit growing and horticulture, poultry farming and beekeeping as well as hunting and fishing.
• You sell goods in the municipality in which you are registered with your place of residence or in which you have registered your commercial establishment. However, this exemption only applies if the municipality has no more than 10,000 inhabitants.
• You sell milk and possibly also dairy products (e.g. yoghurt, kefir, butter, cheese, etc.) and still have a permit in accordance with the Milk and Margarine Act.
• They sell food or other everyday goods from a sales trolley or stall ("mobile store") and do so outside of fixed markets (e.g. weekly markets) at regular, shorter intervals and always in the same place.
• They sell printed works on public paths, streets, squares or in other public places. According to the Press Act, the term printed works includes writings, recorded sound carriers (e.g. cassettes and other data carriers), pictorial representations with and without writing, image carriers (video cassettes and other data carriers) and music (printed products with sheet music) with text and explanatory notes. However, you require a permit to sell such products at your front door.

The sale of the goods you wish to offer must not be prohibited in the itinerant trade.

• Copy of identity card or passport with registration certificate, or presentation on site
• Details of the location and type of sales stand as well as the range of goods

• You would like to offer goods (not services) at a specific event or for a specific occasion. The sale of the goods you wish to offer must not be prohibited in the traveling trade (e.g. precious metals, precious stones, alcohol are prohibited - with certain exceptions).
• You offer the goods at the event itself, or at least on the fringes of the event in question. There must therefore be a temporal and spatial connection to the event (e.g. on the forecourt or access roads).

Fee range: 22 -127 EUR

• You apply to the competent authority for the permit, enclosing the necessary documents.
• You will be notified of the authority's decision in text form or in writing.

If you are already in possession of a traveling trade license that entitles you to offer for sale certain or all types of goods, you do not also require permission from the competent authority if you wish to offer for sale such goods at trade fairs, exhibitions, public festivals or on special occasions.

The permit under trade law does not replace any permits or approvals required under other specialist legislation (e.g. road law).

• Appeal (depending on state law, the appeal may be excluded)
• Administrative court action

• Application for a permit for the occasional sale of goods at trade fairs, exhibitions, public festivals and on special occasions
• Subject: Occasional sale of goods at trade fairs, exhibitions, public festivals and on special occasions
  • is sufficient if the sale takes place in a spatial connection with the trade fair, exhibition, festival or event (e.g. on the forecourt or on an access road)
  • Exclusion of goods that are primarily the subject of the trade fair or exhibition (sale only on the occasion of the trade fair/exhibition)
  • Only the immediate sale of goods is covered, not the mere acceptance of orders
  • The permit makes a traveling trade card unnecessary.
  • No permit is required if you have a traveling trade card that entitles you to offer certain or all goods for sale
  • Other permits (e.g. under road or traffic law) are not replaced.
• If the following goods are to be offered for sale at events of the aforementioned type, no permit is required (as a permit or exemption already exists on another basis):
  • self-produced agricultural, forestry, vegetable, fruit and horticultural products, poultry farming and beekeeping as well as hunting and fishing,
  • goods at the place of residence of the trader or in the municipality of his commercial establishment, provided the municipality has no more than 10,000 inhabitants,
  • Goods that are sold on the basis of a permit in accordance with the Milk and Margarine Act (Milch- und Margarinegesetz) or, in the case of this activity, milk products,
  • foodstuffs or other everyday consumer goods that are sold at regular, shorter intervals from a non-fixed sales outlet or another establishment at the same location,
  • printed matter offered for sale on public paths, streets, squares or other public places
  • goods covered by a designated event in accordance with Title IV of the Industrial Code.
    
• Exemption from the travel trade license requirement only applies if the competent authority has granted permission - i.e. not by law.
• Responsibility: depends on the respective state law

• Online procedure possible: yes (if offered)
• Written form required: no
• Personal appearance required: no