Erlaubnis zum gelegentlichen Feilbieten von Waren zu Messen, Ausstellungen, öffentlichen Festen oder aus besonderem Anlass Erteilung

Would you like to offer goods for immediate sale at a special event, such as a public festival, trade fair or market (e.g. funfair, Christmas market, etc.)? If you have a permit from the competent authority, you do not need a traveling trade card.

If you wish to offer goods for immediate sale at a trade fair or exhibition, a market (e.g. funfair, Christmas market, etc.), as part of public events or festivals (e.g. community festival, marksmen's festival, inauguration celebrations, etc.) or as part of another comparable event, you do not require a traveling trade card if you have a permit from the competent authority. A permit that you must apply for from the competent authority is sufficient. If you already have a traveling trade license, this is sufficient. In this case, you no longer need an additional permit to sell at such an event.

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 permits).

In certain cases, you do not require a traveling trade license or any other permit under trade law for the sale of goods at the above-mentioned events. This applies to the following cases:

• You sell products you have obtained yourself from agriculture and forestry, vegetable, fruit 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 exception 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 under 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. The term printed works includes according to the Press Act 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 doorstep.

Copy of identity card or passport with registration certificate, or presentation on site Details of the location and type of sales stand and 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 itinerant trade (e.g. precious metals, precious stones, alcohol with certain exceptions are prohibited)
• 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).

• 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, markets or public festivals.

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

• Permit for the occasional offering of goods for sale at trade fairs, exhibitions, public festivals or on special occasions Issue
• Object: Occasional offering of goods at trade fairs, markets, festivals and special occasions
• Sufficient if the sale takes place in spatial connection with the trade fair, 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
• If a traveling trade card is available, no permit is required
• Other permits (e.g. under road or traffic law) are not replaced
• No permit required for the sale without a travel trade license
  • the goods listed in § 55a Para. 1 No. 2 (home-grown products from agriculture and forestry, vegetable growing, fruit growing and horticulture, poultry farming and beekeeping as well as hunting and fishing),
  • of goods at the trader's place of residence or in the municipality of his commercial establishment, provided that the municipality has no more than 10,000 inhabitants (§ 55a Para. 1 No. 3),
  • the goods specified in § 55a Para. 1 No. 5 (goods which are sold on the basis of a permit in accordance with § 4 of the Milk and Margarine Act (Milch- und Margarinegesetz) or, in the case of this activity, milk products),
  • of foodstuffs or other everyday consumer goods at regular, shorter intervals from a non-fixed sales outlet or other establishment at the same location (Section 55a (1) No. 9),
  • of printed works on public paths, streets, squares or in other public places (Section 55a (1) No. 10)
  • of goods covered by a designated event in accordance with Title IV of the Industrial Code.

Depends on the respective national law

• Written form required: no
• Online procedure possible: yes
• Personal appearance required: no