Apply for registration in a register of craftsmen (craft subject to authorisation)
Description
If you wish to practise a craft subject to authorisation, you must register in a register (craft register) maintained by your regionally responsible Chamber of Crafts before starting your entrepreneurial activity. In addition to the company owner (sole proprietor, partnership with legal capacity or legal entity), the craft register lists who takes over the management of the company. Management may be exercised either by the farmer or by an employed manager. The management must have the technical requirements for the exercise of the craft subject to approval. Proof must be provided by means of a master craftsman's certificate for the respective craft or an equivalent relevant professional qualification. For more information, see the "Prerequisites" section.
Crafts subject to licensing include, among others, the following professions:
- Bricklayer
- Carpenter
- Roofer
- road builders,
- scaffolding builders,
- Metalworker,
- Tiler
- screed layers,
- Stonemasons
- Stone sculptor,
- plasterers,
- painters and varnishers,
- Interior
- Body and vehicle builders,
- Information, automotive and electrical engineers,
- Installer and heating engineer,
- Container and apparatus builders,
- Baker
- Confectioners
- Butcher
- Barbers
- glassblowers and glass apparatus builders,
- Chimney sweep
- Orthopaedic technician,
- Dental technician.
A complete list can be found in Annex A to the Crafts Code (HwO). The craft does not have to be practiced as a whole. Essential (partial) activities can also be carried out.
Attention: You may only practice the craft subject to approval that has been registered. If several crafts subject to authorisation are exercised, each of these crafts subject to authorisation must normally be registered in the register of craftsmen.
- Completed master craftsman's examination in
- the craft you want to practice, or
- in a craft subject to authorisation related to it
- The Crafts Code also provides for provisions according to which you or your management
- as a graduate engineer,
- with a Bachelor's or Master's degree or
- can be entered in the register of craftsmen with a German state or state-recognised examination equivalent to the master craftsman's examination.
- The prerequisite is that the study or school focus of your examination corresponds to the craft to be registered.
- In addition, there is the possibility of granting an exemption permit or right to exercise.
- For nationals of a Member State of the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland, there are special regulations for the recognition of professional qualifications within the framework of an exemption permit procedure.
- In addition, an equivalence assessment can be made for professional qualifications acquired abroad.
- For sole proprietorships:
- Copy of identity card or comparable identification document
- Proof of the qualification (e.g. copy of the master craftsman's certificate, technical certificate) of the holder or the employed management (see more details under 5.)
- Copy of the business registration (can be filed after registration in the register of craftsmen)
- For civil law companies (GbR):
- Copies of the identity card or a comparable identification document of the shareholders or persons authorised to represent them
- Copy of the articles of association (unless informally concluded)
- Proof of the qualification (e.g. copy of the master craftsman's certificate, technical certificate) of the shareholder or the employed management (see in more detail under 5.)
- Copy of the business registration (can be filed after registration in the register of craftsmen)
- In the case of partnerships with legal capacity, i.e. the general partnership (OHG), limited partnership (KG) and corresponding foreign company forms:
- Copies of the identity card or a comparable identification document of the shareholders or persons authorized to represent
- Proof of the entrepreneurial legal form at the company's registered office in Germany:
- in the case of companies entered in the commercial register: extract from the register, in the case of OHG additionally a copy of the articles of association
- if no registration has been made: Copy of the articles of association
- Proof of the entrepreneurial legal form in the case of foreign legal forms:
- Extract from the register of the competent foreign register for companies entered in registers, otherwise
- Copy of the articles of association
- Proof of the qualification (e.g. copy of master craftsman's certificate, technical certificate) of the shareholder or the employed management (see more under 5.)
- Copy of the business registration (can be filed after registration in the register of craftsmen)
- In the case of legal entities (gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH), Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) or UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Aktiengesellschaft (AG), eingetragene Genossenschaft (eG)):
- Copies of the identity card or a comparable identification document of the authorised representatives
- Proof of the entrepreneurial legal form at the company's registered office in Germany:
- Extract from the register of commercial or cooperatives
- Proof of the entrepreneurial legal form in the case of foreign legal forms:
- Extract from the register of the competent foreign register
- Copy of the business registration (can be filed after registration in the register of craftsmen)
- Information on management: see 5.
- If a farm manager is employed, the following documents must also be submitted:
- Farm Manager's Declaration
- Proof of the management activity (copy of the employment contract)
- Proof of social security for the management
- Proof of qualification from the management (e.g. copy of master craftsman's certificate, technical certificate, exemption permit)
Note: If you employ a second person as management – for example when practicing several crafts subject to licensing – you must also submit the farm manager's declaration with further documents mentioned under 5. for them.
The specific fee results from the list of fees of the Chamber of Crafts, which is available on the Chamber's website.
Notification of craft activity: before the start.
Contact the Chamber of Crafts (HWK), in whose district your future permanent establishment is located.
Essential (partial) activities of a craft
The craft does not have to be practiced as a whole. Essential (partial) activities can also be carried out. Even then, the entry in the register of craftsmen must be made.
Multiple crafts
They may only practice the craft subject to licensing that has been registered.
If you want to practice several crafts subject to licensing, you must have each of these crafts entered in the craft register.
Several people as management
If you employ more than 1 person as management, you must also register them.
The Senator for Economics, Labour and Europe of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
