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To operate a gaming arcade or similar business, you need a permit for the respective location.

If you would like to operate an amusement arcade or similar business as a traveling trade, you will need a permit for the respective location.

Submit an informal application for a permit for a traveling arcade

• Copy of identity card or passport with registration certificate, or presentation on site
• Proof of orderly financial circumstances

if you are resident in Germany:

• Extract from the debtor register
• Certificate from the insolvency court
• Certificate in tax matters (from the tax office)

if you live abroad:

• Documents from your home country that prove your orderly financial circumstances

Proof of the legal form of the company

• If the company is based in Germany, if the company is entered in a register:
  Extract from the commercial register, or the partnership register, or the register of cooperatives
• If the company is based abroad: documents from the country of domicile that prove the legal form

Proof of personal reliability

If resident in Germany:

• Application for a certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority
• Application for an extract from the central trade register for submission to an authority

if you live abroad:

• Documents from your country of residence that prove your personal reliability

Further documents can be requested to verify your personal reliability.

Lease, purchase or rental agreement as well as the floor plan of the commercially used premises.

In the case of legal entities (e.g. limited liability companies, business companies, public limited companies, registered cooperatives), you must submit the personal documents for all natural persons authorized to manage the business (e.g. identity papers) or apply for them (e.g. extract from the central trade register for submission to an authority in accordance with Section 150 (5) of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act). For legal entities, you also need an excerpt from the central trade register for submission to an authority in accordance with Section 150 (5) of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act.

Partnerships (GbR, KG, OHG, PartG, GmbH & Co. KG) are not eligible for a license as such. Therefore, each managing partner requires a license. Submit a completed application form and all personal documents for each of these persons.

Informal application for a permit for a traveling arcade

• Copy of identity card or passport with registration certificate, or presentation on site.
• Proof of orderly financial circumstances

for residence in Germany

• Extract from the debtor register
• Certificate from the insolvency court
• Certificate in tax matters (from the tax office)

If you live abroad

• Documents from your home country that prove your orderly financial circumstances

Proof of the legal form of the company

Proof of personal reliability

• You must have the necessary reliability to operate a gaming arcade. As a rule, you do not have this if you have been convicted of a crime, theft, embezzlement, extortion, receiving stolen goods, money laundering, concealment of unlawfully obtained assets, fraud, breach of trust, illegal organization of a game of chance, participation in illegal gambling or an offence under Section 27 of the Youth Protection Act within the last three years prior to submitting your application.
• You must be living in orderly financial circumstances: no insolvency proceedings have been opened against your assets or rejected due to lack of assets.
• The premises intended for the operation of the business must meet police requirements in terms of their condition and location and must be suitable for the operation of an arcade.
• There is no danger to young people or excessive exploitation of the gambling instinct through the operation of your business. Harmful environmental effects within the meaning of the Federal Immission Control Act or a nuisance to the general public, neighbors or an existing facility in the public interest are also not to be expected.

• Submit your informal application with all the necessary documents.
• The competent authority will check whether you meet all the requirements.
• If you meet all the requirements, you will receive the permit.
• You may only start working once you have received the permit.

Please ensure that you apply for the permit in good time, as the permit must be available at the start of operation.

If another game with the possibility of winning within the meaning of Section 33d (1) sentence 1 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO) is to be organized in the arcade in accordance with Section 60a (3) of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO), a permit in accordance with Section 60a (2) of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO) is also required.

• Apply for a permit for gaming arcades in the traveling trade
• For the installation of gaming devices with the possibility of winning or
• the organization of an event or
• other games with the possibility of winning requires a permit.
• The permit is location-specific.