Would you like to broker real estate or loan agreements on a commercial basis? For this you need an official permit. This also applies if you want to manage residential real estate on a commercial basis or prepare and carry out construction projects.

If you intend to transport goods with motor vehicles over 3.5 tonnes on a commercial basis or for a fee, you need the permission of the locally competent approval authority (company headquarters).

Are you registered in the register of skilled crafts with a craft that requires authorization and would like to practice another craft? Then you can apply for a license to practice another craft under certain conditions.

If you want to gain access to the telematics infrastructure (TI) in healthcare, you need an electronic health professional card (eHBA) as a person in a healthcare profession.

As a nursing, obstetric or physiotherapy facility, would you like to give your employees access to the telematics infrastructure (TI)? Then you can apply for an electronic institution card (SMC-B) under certain conditions.

As a nurse, obstetrician, or physiotherapy facility, would you like to extend your employees' access to the telematics infrastructure (TI)? Then, under certain conditions, you can apply for the follow-up card of the electronic institution card (SMC-B).

If you wish to act as an expert or surveyor for long-term storage facilities in accordance with the Landfill Ordinance, you must be designated as such by the competent authority.

As an approved measuring point for emissions and immissions in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act, you can offer your services throughout Germany after notification by a state authority or participate in corresponding tenders.

As a private cross-check expert, you need to be licensed to test officially left samples.

If you want to work as an examination body for sewage sludge examinations in waste management, you must be appointed by the competent authority.

If you act as a body for the testing and examination of waste wood batches that are to be recycled, you must be notified in advance as part of the external monitoring of operators of waste wood treatment plants in the waste management sector.

Would you like to work as an auditor for earthworks and foundation engineering? To do this, you must be recognised.

If you want to set up an expert organization that inspects systems for handling substances hazardous to water, prepares expert reports and certifies or monitors specialist companies, you must apply for recognition from the competent authority.

Would you like to provide high-quality services as an expert or investigating body in the EU for tasks under the Federal Soil Protection Act? Then you can apply for official recognition. This serves as proof of qualification to clients.

Would you like to have your test laboratory or measuring point notified? Find out more here.

As an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO), you benefit from simplifications in customs clearance. To obtain this status, you must submit an application to your main customs office.

Are you from another EU/EEA country or Switzerland and would like to practice a craft requiring a license in Germany? Then you can have your professional experience and training certificates recognized in Germany under certain conditions.

If you have completed a journeyman's or final examination in a recognised training occupation in the craft sector and have qualified professional experience, you can become self-employed or exercise a managerial function in most crafts subject to licensing.

Would you like to be authorized as a district chimney sweep? You must be appointed by the competent authority. You can find out more here.

Anyone who registers or re-registers a trade requiring monitoring checks its reliability by the trade authority on the basis of a certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority and a trade central register information for submission to an authority.

Do you want to interpret, sign language interpret or translate at courts and authorities? Find out here which requirements you need for this.

Do you have a license to practice another craft requiring a license as a standing trade or for experienced journeymen or journeywomen? If so, you must have this entered in the Register of Craftsmen before taking up the activity.

If you are interested in working in an academic or non-academic health profession abroad, you will need a Certificate of good standing.

You already have a branch as an expert and would now like to register a branch? Find out more here.

Issuance of electronic certificate of origin and other certificate for foreign trade

If you want to use the job title of medical-technical laboratory assistant, you need a permit. You can find out more here.

Do you attach great importance to hygiene and cleanliness? Find out here about the recognition as a health supervisor.

If you would like to set up a pregnancy conflict counselling centre, you can do so under certain conditions.

If your conformity assessment body for measuring instruments is recognized and accredited, it can start its work.

If you are or want to be professionally active in maritime shipping , you can apply for proof in the form of a seafarer's certificate under certain conditions.

If you want to work as a doctor in Germany, you need a special professional license - a license to practice medicine or a professional permit.

If you want to have your already acquired qualification in the field of hazardous substances recognised as equivalent to expertise, you must prove equivalence to the competent authority.

If you would like to be publicly appointed and sworn in as an expert for agriculture and forestry, you must apply to the competent authority. You can find out more here.

If you want to offer a course for professional activities with asbestos, you must have the course recognised by the competent authority.

If you want to offer a training course for the use of biocidal products requiring expert knowledge, you must have the course recognized by the competent authority in advance.

Do you or your employees slaughter, stun or bleed animals commercially? Then you must appoint an authorized person responsible for animal welfare reasons.

The authority may also order the appointment of a water protection officer in addition to those who are already obliged to appoint a water protection officer.

If you work in the technical field of radiation protection (e.g., operating X-ray equipment or handling radioactive materials), you must have the necessary expertise. This must be tested and certified by the competent authority.

To open a company that transports passengers by road, you must prove your professional suitability.

If your workshop card is about to expire, you must apply to renew it.

If you have lost your workshop card, you can apply for a replacement card from the relevant office.

Have you studied abroad? The certificate evaluation will tell you whether your degree is equivalent to a German degree.

Persons who are employed in security-sensitive positions in companies must undergo a security check as part of preventive personnel sabotage protection. As a company, you must apply for the check.

If you have newly appointed or dismissed an immission control officer or if there have been changes in their area of responsibility, you must report this to the responsible immission control authority.

The written appointment of a responsible person must be reported to the competent authority. The person must have a valid certificate of competence for handling explosives.

In order to be appointed and active as a dangerous goods safety adviser, you must have proof of training. The training certificate will be issued to you after participation in a training course and a successful examination by the IHK.

If you want to work as a pharmaceutical-technical assistant you need a license. You can find out more here.

If you wish to provide certain services in another EU country, some EU countries (e.g., Austria, Belgium, Luxemburg) require the EU qualifications certificate as proof of your professional experience.

The Chambers of Commerce and Industry issue certificates of origin and other trade certificates for the export industry.

In individual cases, you may be exempted from the requirement of a technical or manual training for proof of expertise in accordance with the Chemicals Ozone Layer Ordinance.

If you want to practice the dental profession in Germany without restrictions, you need a state license, the Approbation.

If you want to practice the profession of child and adolescent psychotherapist in Germany without restrictions, you need a state license, the Approbation.

If you want to practice the profession of pharmacist in Germany without restrictions, you need a state license, the Approbation.

If you wish to practise medicine in the field of physiotherapy, you must apply for a license to do so.

If you wish to practice medicine in the field of psychotherapy, you must apply for a permit.

In order to work temporarily in Germany as a veterinarian without a license, you need a permit.

If you want to use the job title of medical-technical assistant for functional diagnostics, you need a license. You can find out more here.

If you have the job title medical-technical radiology assistant you need a permit. You can find out more here.

If you have the job title "emergency paramedic", you need a permit. You can find out more here.

If you use the job title "health and nursing professional" or "health and nursing professional" you need a license. You can find out more here.

If you would like to use the job title "pediatric nurse", you need a permit. You can find out more here.

If you have the job title "masseur and medical bath attendant", you need a license. You can find out more here.

The benefit is not offered in Saxony-Anhalt. You can apply for the benefit in another federal state.

If you want to use the job title "occupational therapist", you need a license.

If you use the job title "physiotherapist or physiotherapist", you need a license. You can find out more here.

A person needs a certificate of competence if he wants to place plant protection products on the market commercially or via the Internet outside of commercial activities.

If you use plant protection products, advise on plant protection, or want to instruct or supervise persons who use plant protection products as part of a training relationship or an auxiliary activity, you need a corresponding certificate of competence.

You would like to be publicly appointed and sworn in as an expert or surveyor? Then you can apply for this at the competent authority.

If you want to work as a farrier apprentice blacksmith, you need to be licensed by the state.

If you wish to be recognized as an expert on soil protection issues, you must submit a corresponding application.

If you would like to carry out training courses for dangerous goods officers, you must be recognised as a training organiser by the locally responsible Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

If you wish to work as an expert or surveyor in the field of high-pressure gas pipelines, you must be recognized as an expert by the competent authority.

In order to acquire the necessary expertise in radiation protection, people must take part in courses. If you want to organize courses to provide participants with the necessary knowledge in radiation protection, the competent body must check whether your course is suitable.

If you wish to organize courses to acquire the necessary specialist knowledge in radiation protection in order to impart the necessary theoretical knowledge in radiation protection to the participants in the course, you must apply in advance.

In addition to your professional title as a veterinarian, you can use other designations on request. Read the most important information here.

If you want to carry out training courses for dangerous goods drivers, you must be recognized as a training organizer by the locally responsible IHK.

If you would like to provide legal services in the areas of debt collection, pension consulting or legal consulting in foreign law with a foreign professional qualification, you can prove your practical expertise by taking an adaptation course.

If you wish to change or extend your public appointment or swearing-in as an expert, you must apply for this. You can find out more here.

If you want to handle or trade in explosive substances, you need a certificate of competence. You can find out more here.

In order to be allowed to work as a European lawyer in Germany, you must apply for admission to a bar association.

Are you a lawyer from a member state of the World Trade Organization and live and work in Germany? Then you can apply for admission, i.e. admission to a German bar association, under certain conditions.

If you would like to work as an expert in the mining sector, you will need official recognition under certain conditions. To do this, you must submit an application to the relevant mining authority.

If you are not a mine surveyor, you can still manage the mine workings of a mining operation under certain conditions. To do so, you need to be recognized as an "other person" by the competent authority.

Would you like to offer legal services under foreign law? Then you need to be registered in the legal services register, for which you must provide proof of your specialist knowledge.

You must have the necessary specialist knowledge for certain activities in connection with ionizing radiation (e.g. handling radioactive substances, operating X-ray equipment). This must be checked and certified by the competent authority.

If you would like to qualify in the field of IT security and prove your expertise, you can apply for certification under certain conditions.

If you use the job title "midwife" or "maternity nurse", you need a license. You can find out more here.

If you have the job title "Orthoptist" or "orthoptist", you need a license. You can find out more here.

With a public appointment as a sampler, you are available to courts, authorities, industry and the general public as a particularly reliable, credible and experienced person.

You are a company engaged in the commercial transport of goods and passengers and you are applying for the renewal of existing company cards.

You are a company engaged in the commercial transportation of goods and passengers and you are applying for the replacement of a company card due to loss.

You are a company engaged in the commercial transportation of goods and passengers and are requesting the replacement of a company card due to theft.

They need a restaurant permit (concession) if they want to serve alcohol in their business. A restaurant permit will only be issued if you can present a certificate from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce about the restaurant instruction.

You must provide proof of information in the security industry if you are employed and take over guarding tasks in the security industry on your own responsibility.

If you use plant protection products for Aothers or Ander others about the use of plant protection products or about plant protection, you must notify the competent authority. You can find out more here.

Do you conduct animal experiments, keep or breed laboratory animals in your facility or company? Then you must appoint an animal welfare officer as the responsible person and report this to the competent body.

As a fee-based financial investment advisor or financial investment broker, you must submit an annual audit report or alternatively a so-called negative declaration to your supervisory authority.

In order to obtain a license as a fee-based financial investment advisor, you must provide proof of the required expertise.

In order to be able to offer so-called over-the-counter medicines in the trade, you must prove the corresponding expertise by passing an examination.

As part of the licensing procedure for the commercial arms trade, you must provide evidence of the relevant specialist knowledge. To do this, you take a specialist knowledge test at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK).