Apply for approval of sales events
Description
In particular, weekly, annual or specialty markets are regarded as events.
A weekly market is an event that
- recurs regularly,
- is limited in time,
- at which a large number of vendors offer, for example, food and raw natural products.
A specialty market is
- regularly recurring at longer intervals,
- limited in time
- an event at which specific goods are offered.
Annual markets are
- regularly recurring at longer intervals,
- limited in time,
- Events at which goods of all kinds are offered.
If you, as an organizer, wish to offer a weekly, annual or special market, you can apply to the competent authority for a permit. The effect of the determination is that you as an organizer are exempt from certain commercial obligations (e.g. travel fabric card, compliance with store closing times). Organizers are natural and legal persons. Cities also often act as organizers, mainly for weekly markets. If your market takes place in a public space, a special use permit is required. The competent authority will check your reliability during the application process.
- personal reliability and the reliability of the persons entrusted with the management of the event
- Ensuring protection against hazards to life and health for participants
- There must be no danger to public safety and order as a result of the event.
- Certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority (document type 0)
- Excerpt from the Central Trade Register for submission to an authority (document type 9)
- Certificate in tax matters from the tax office of the place where you have lived or operated a business in the last 3 years
- Negative certificate from the insolvency court of those local courts in whose district you have had a residence or a commercial establishment in the last 3 years
If the event takes place in public space:
- Special use permit
Information that the informal application must contain:
- Date of the event
- Place
- Opening hours, e.g. Saturday and Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Event name, e.g. spring market
- Site plan with stalls, access roads from a bird's eye view
- Preliminary list of participants with the range of goods offered by the participants
- Blank contract concluded between the organizer and dealers
The amount of the fee depends on the administrative effort.
You must submit the application and all supporting documents in good time before the start of the event.
For the determination of weekly markets, special markets and annual markets, please contact the municipality or city of the event location.
To apply for a permit for trade fairs, exhibitions and large-scale markets, please contact the district or independent city.
Once you have submitted the application and all documents are complete, the competent authority will check whether you meet all the requirements for granting the requested event.
If you meet all the requirements, the event will be fixed.
In principle, anyone is allowed to participate in a trade fair, exhibition or market. As an organizer, however, you can limit the event to certain groups of providers or visitors or exclude individual interested parties for objectively justified reasons. However, the selection among the candidates must be made according to factual, verifiable selection criteria. This includes criteria such as attractiveness, balance, versatility and novelty of the business operated by the applicant.
Ministry of Economics, Science and Digitization of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
14.04.2021
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
