Bescheinigung der Gestattung zur Erbringung vorübergehender grenzüberschreitender Dienstleistungen nach § 9 Absatz 1 Nummer 2 Handwerksordnung (HwO) im Bereich des zulassungspflichtigen Handwerks Ausstellung

Obligation to notify before commencing protected craft services in Germany without a domestic branch

If you want to temporarily practise a craft in Germany that is subject to licensing here without a German branch, but with a branch in a contracting state (EU member, EEA contracting state or Switzerland), you must notify your intention to the Chamber of Crafts and Crafts that is responsible for the place where you want to carry out the activity for the first time in Germany before starting the activity. It is a self-employed activity as a bricklayer and concrete builder, stove and air heating engineer, carpenter, roofer, road builder, heat, cold and sound insulation insulator. Well builder, stonemason and stone sculptor, plasterer. Painters and varnishers, scaffolders, metal workers, surgical mechanics, body and vehicle builders, precision mechanics, two-wheeler mechanics, refrigeration system builders, information technicians, motor vehicle technicians, agricultural machinery mechanics, gunsmiths, plumbers, plumbers and heating engineers, electrical engineers, electrical machine builders, carpenters, boat and ship builders, rope makers, bakers, confectioners, butchers, hairdressers, glaziers, glassblowers and glass apparatus makers, mechanics for tyre and It is sufficient to prove that you are legally established in your country of origin for the purpose of carrying out comparable activities. In addition, proof of at least one year's full-time employment or correspondingly longer part-time employment within the last ten years is required if the other country of origin does not require a specific professional qualification to carry out the activities in question and you do not have regulated training for the activities.

Regulated training is training aimed at the pursuit of a specific profession and consisting of one or more completed training courses, supplemented, where appropriate, by a professional internship or practice, the structure and level of which are determined by laws, regulations or administrative provisions or must be controlled or approved by an authority designated for control and approval.

Or:

You want to work independently in Germany as a chimney sweep, optician, hearing aid acoustician, orthopaedic technician, orthopaedic shoemaker, dental technician temporarily without a German branch, but with a branch in a contracting state (EU member, EEA contracting state or Switzerland). In this case, the competent authority must check your professional qualification before providing the service if, taking into account the intended activity, there would be a serious risk to the health or safety of the recipients of the service if you are insufficiently qualified.

Evidence

personal data and nationality;

legal establishment in the country of origin;

the existence of requirements for one's own professional qualification in the country of origin;

if applicable, about one's own professional qualifications;

if applicable, about the practice of the profession to the extent of one year in the case of full-time employment within the last ten years.

In order to take up a temporary cross-border activity in a craft subject to licensing, it is sufficient to give prior notice of the intention with proof of legal establishment in the country of origin, if the profession also requires a certain qualification there. This applies to the trades of bricklayers and concrete workers, stove and air heating engineers, carpenters, roofers, road builders, heat, cold and sound insulation insulators. Well builders, stonemasons and stone sculptors, plasterers, painters and varnishers, scaffolders, metal workers, surgical mechanics, body and vehicle builders, precision mechanics, two-wheeler mechanics, refrigeration system builders, information technicians, motor vehicle technicians, agricultural machinery mechanics, gunsmiths, plumbers, plumbers and heating engineers, electrical engineers, electrical machine builders, carpenters, boat and ship builders, rope makers, bakers, confectioners, butchers, hairdressers, glaziers, glassblowers and Glass apparatus builder and mechanic for tire and vulcanization technology.

If access to the profession in the country of origin is not linked to a qualification, you must prove that you have completed regulated training.

If you do not have regular training, proof of employment in the selected craft in the last ten years is required to the extent of one year for full-time employment, i.e. correspondingly longer for part-time work.

In the trades of chimney sweeps, opticians, hearing aid acousticians, orthopaedic technicians, orthopaedic shoemakers, dental technicians, the competent authority decides whether an examination of the qualification is required.

Fee schedule HWK Ffo Fee 5.4: 100 €

Schedule of fees of the Cottbus Chamber of Crafts in the version of 30 November 2017, fee C.VI.3: 100 €

Schedule of fees of the Chamber of Crafts Potsdam, fee 2.2: 100 €

Service provider notifies the competent Chamber of Crafts of the intention to provide services in a craft subject to licensing.

The competent chamber examines the existence of a craft subject to licensing. It checks whether the exercise is regulated in the country of origin. It checks whether the service provider is established in the country of origin to provide the service, i.e. whether it is authorised and to act accordingly.

If it is not a regulated craft in the country of origin, the competent authority shall check whether the activity is subject to regulated training and whether the service provider has successfully completed or asserts it, and shall provide evidence of the activity for at least one year in the case of full-time or proportionately more in the case of part-time work in the last ten years.

Within one month: confirmation of receipt confirming immediate eligibility to work or informing the result of the examination whether an examination of the professional qualification will be carried out.

Within a further month: decision on the verification of the professional qualification

Within two months in the event of delays to be justified.

One month to allow the opportunity to take an aptitude test if required.

The notification must be made before the first action is taken. If the intention is maintained, it must be repeated informally every 12 months.

BMWi brochure on the new EU-EEA Crafts Regulation

Link in the download area of the HWK Frankfurt (Oder)

Confirmation of notification of the cross-border exercise of a craft subject to licensing in Germany

Competent authority or point of single contact for the State of Brandenburg

Chamber of Crafts and Crafts responsible for the place of the intended first activity in Germany

Forms on the Internet at the Chamber of Crafts Frankfurt (Oder) and the Chamber of Crafts Cottbus. No form at the Chamber of Crafts Potsdam. Leaflet at the Chamber of Crafts Frankfurt (Oder) requires a personal interview. Leaflet of the Cottbus Chamber of Crafts requires written notification. Regulation requires written or electronic notification.