If you want to import pathogens into Germany, export them, store them, dispense them or work with them, you need a permit from the competent authority.

If you carry out activities involving pathogens, you must notify the competent authority immediately of any changes that occur.

If you want to operate a private inspection body for organic farming, you need to be licensed.

When you start a business activity, you will be given a business identification number (W-IdNr.).

If you want to become self-employed as a financial investment broker, you must apply for a permit.

You need a permit if you want to operate an arcade commercially.

If you wish to manage investment assets as a capital management company with its registered office and head office in Germany, you need written permission or you must register.

If you want to run a zoo, you'll need permission from the conservation authority. In addition to the construction and operation of a zoo, the expansion and significant changes are also subject to approval.

If you would like to work as a self-employed insurance broker, you need a permit from your local Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK).

If you require a permit for the commercial breeding or keeping of vertebrate animals, you must submit an application to the competent authority. You can find out more here.

For many activities involving the commercial handling of animals, you require a permit from the competent authority.

If you require a permit to trade in vertebrate animals, you must submit an application to the competent authority. You can find out more here.

Have you been prohibited from practising your business because of unreliability? Then you can usually apply for the re-approval of your commercial activity after 1 year under certain conditions.

Would you like to offer gastronomy with alcohol as part of a time-limited event (e.g. fair, city festival, shooting festival) or for another temporary occasion (e.g. baukantinen)? Then you need a temporary permit (permit).

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 sell goods outside of your store, you'll need a travel trade card.

You want to run your law firm in the form of a limited liability company (GmbH) or a stock corporation (AG)? In this case, recognition as a law firm requires admission.

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.

On request, an operating permit for a secondary pharmacy can be granted.

Would you like to operate an egg packing station? Then you must apply to the competent authority for market authorization and a packing station code.

Do you want to operate an X-ray system in technical radiography for coarse structure analysis in materials testing or make changes to the operation? Then you must notify the competent authority for radiation protection and apply for a permit.

You would like that individual measuring devices or random samples of measuring devices be calibrated? Then you must submit a corresponding calibration application to the responsible authority authority. Further details here.

If you use the taximeter of your cab or the odometer in your meter in your rental car you want to you mustsubmit a corresponding calibration application to the competent authority authority. Further details here

Are you an urban planner working in Saxony-Anhalt? Then find out here about membership in the Chamber of Architects Saxony-Anhalt.

Would you like to work as a consulting engineer? Find out more about the profession and the requirements here.

If you want to work as an engineer entitled to a building template, you must be entered in the corresponding list.

Would you like to work as a person entitled to proof of structural engineering? Find out more about the profession and the requirements here. 

You have successfully completed your engineering studies and now want to become a member of the Chamber of Engineers? Learn more about it here.

If you would like to pursue a contractual medical or contractual psychotherapy activity in outpatient care, you must be entered in the medical register.

If you would like to independently pursue a craft that does not require a licence or a trade-like trade, you must notify your Chamber of Crafts of the start of the commercial activity.

If you would like to work as a self-employed ancillary insurance intermediary, you can be exempted from the licensing requirement for insurance intermediaries.

If you want to carry out an activity in the travel trade, you need a travel trade card. You can have a temporary travel trade card extended by the competent authority. You can find out more here.

You would like to auction off movable property, real estate or rights belonging to third parties on a commercial basis? You need a permit to do so. You can find out more here.

If you want to care for one or more children outside the household of the parent or guardian regularly and against payment, you usually need permission to do so. You can apply for this at the responsible youth welfare office.

If you require a permit to conduct an animal exchange for the purpose of exchanging or selling animals by third parties, you must submit an application to the competent authority.

A permit is required to operate a stationary shooting range.

If you want to run a riding or driving business, you need a permit from the relevant authority. You can find out more here.

If you want to set up as a non-medical practitioner to practice medicine, you need a license.

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.

If you want to offer financial services, you need a permit to do so.

If you want to collect or transport hazardous waste or trade in hazardous waste, you must apply for a permit.

If you wish to train dogs for protection purposes for third parties or maintain facilities for this purpose, you require permission from the competent authority. You can find out more here.

If you would like to work as a self-employed insurance consultant, you need a license from the relevant Chamber of Industry and Commerce. You can find out more here.

If you want to carry out tests or issue certificates in accordance with the Chemicals Climate Protection Ordinance, you must be recognized by 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.

If you want to provide and evaluate devices for legally required measurements of radon activity concentration at workplaces, you must be recognized by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS).

Association of recognized forestry cooperatives or similar associations to adapt forestry production to market requirements

Non-official experimental facilities operated or set up by a private or public body may be officially recognised on request.

If you would like to carry out a non-essential activity of a craft subject to licensing independently and have a relevant journeyman training, you must be registered in the register of your locally competent Chamber of Crafts.

If you want to register as an expert in the energy efficiency expert list, you can submit an application under certain conditions.

If you want to work as a tax consultant without restrictions, you must fulfill certain requirements. This includes registration in the professional register for tax consultants.

If you want to provide unlimited tax advice, you must meet certain requirements. This also includes the registration of your tax consulting company in the professional register for tax consultants.

If you wish to set up a new air carrier, you must submit an application for approval of the new company.

If you want to set up gaming machines with the possibility of winning on a commercial basis, you need a permit in accordance with § 33c Gewerbeordnung (Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act).

If you are not insured against accidents at work by law, you can apply for voluntary insurance. You can change or cancel the insurance at any time.

You can change or extend the activities listed on the travel trade license with the competent authority.

If you want to open a private hospital, a private maternity clinic or a private mental hospital, you must apply for a license.

If you would like to work as a pawnbroker or pawnbroker, you need a permit.

Anyone who wants to guard the life or property of strangers on a commercial basis requires the permission of the competent authority.

Under certain conditions, you can obtain a permit to operate an insemination station or embryo collection unit.

If you wish to engage in the commercial manufacture or trade of firearms through a representative, you require a representative's permit.

Would you like to take over a restaurant serving alcohol from another person? In order to continue the restaurant business without interruption, you can first apply for a temporary permit, which will later be replaced by a permanent permit.

Would you like to work in the field of patent law in Germany with a professional practice company with limited liability or as a foreign professional practice company? Then you need a license from the Chamber of Patent Attorneys.

You need a license to operate a hospital pharmacy. You can apply for this from the local competent authority.

If you want to open or take over a pharmacy, you must submit a written application for an operating license.

To operate a mobile shooting range, you need a permit.

Association of landowners for the joint management of their forest areas in a forest management association (FBG)

If you want to run a business whose activity consists of placing hatching eggs in incubators, incubating these eggs and supplying chicks, you must apply to the competent authority for registration.

The Securities and Exchange Commission may allow you to set up a stock exchange upon request.

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.

If you as an entrepreneur wish to move goods subject to plant passport requirements within the EU, you must be entered in an official register. You can find out more here.

As an employer, you must register your employees who are subject to social insurance contributions. You will need a company number for this.

Work with quarantine pests for plants or other regulated materials may only be carried out in quarantine stations or closed facilities.

You must apply to the competent authority for designation as a quarantine station or closed facility.

If you work with materials containing asbestos, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority. This notification can be company-specific or object-specific. Notification is only mandatory for companies.

If you work with materials containing asbestos, you must notify the relevant health and safety authority. This notification can be company-specific or object-specific. Notification is only mandatory for companies.

If you have a permit to work with pathogens and you want to take up this activity for the first time, you must notify the competent authority.

If you manufacture weapons commercially and/or trade in weapons, you must report the commencement or cessation of operations.

If you as an employer intend to allow your employees to work with airbag or belt tensioner units of category P1 for the first time, you must notify the responsible body in advance.

If you want to trade in wooden packaging material as an entrepreneur, you must report the activity. You can find out more here.

If you intend to operate or significantly modify a dental, medical or veterinary X-ray facility and this is not subject to approval, you are obliged to notify the competent authority.

If you intend to operate or significantly modify a dental, medical or veterinary X-ray facility and this is not subject to approval, you are obliged to notify the competent authority.

For the radiation protection of personnel, you must notify the operation of spacecraft under certain conditions.

If you, as a person authorized to practice medicine, wish to manufacture medicinal products under your direct professional responsibility for the purpose of personal use on a specific patient, you must register this activity with the competent authority.

If you want to work independently in a craft requiring a license and have a domestic professional qualification equivalent to a master craftsman's examination, you must first be entered in the Register of Craftsmen.

Would you like to become self-employed after completing an engineering degree or training to become a state-certified technician in a trade requiring a license? If so, you must first register with the Register of Craftsmen.

If you run a company that is liable to pay social security contributions, you can reduce the time and effort required to prepare the annual reports by forming a compensation association with other companies. This association assumes the obligations towards the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).

Is your registration certificate for working as a prostitute expiring? Then you need to renew your certificate.

The temporary permit for a commercial event for the exhibition of persons can be extended upon application. You can find out more here.

Are you passionate about care? Start your own outpatient care service.

For the operation of an arcade or a similar company, you need a permit for the respective location.

If you wish to appoint another person to manage a branch office for the commercial manufacture or trade of firearms, you require a deputy permit.

If you wish to appoint another person to manage a dependent branch office for the commercial manufacture or trade of firearms, you require a deputy permit.

Anyone who wants to offer low-threshold care services to people in need of care must first have them recognised. The application for the recognition of offers according to § 45a SGB XI takes place individually in the federal state in which the offer is made.

If you open a new permanent establishment as a member of a Chamber of Crafts, you must notify the Chamber of Crafts.

If you catch eels for profit, you must send written records for each fishing operation as an annual declaration to the upper fisheries authority.

If you carry out small-scale activities with materials containing asbestos, a supplementary notification stating the time and place of the work to be carried out is required in addition to the company-related notification.

Responsible: The health and safety authority responsible for the construction site

Has something changed in your company or in your self-employed or freelance work? You must report this to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.

If you wish to engage in the commercial manufacture or trade of firearms through a representative, you require a representative's permit.

If you wish to practice a trade and require proof of your personal reliability, you may request information from the Central Trade Register.

If you provide other persons with weapons and/or ammunition that require a permit, you must report this to the competent authority within two weeks. You can find out more here.

If you operate a pharmaceutical company that places finished medicinal products on the market, you must notify the competent authority of a qualified person. Any changes must also be reported immediately.

If there are changes in the number of shareholders or the right of representation in the register of craftsmen or in the register of owners of a business, craft or craft similar trade without authorisation, you must notify us of this.

If you wish to construct or significantly modify a facility for handling substances hazardous to water or take measures that result in a change in the hazard level, you must notify the competent authority.

Do you want to operate a restaurant temporarily for a special reason? Then you must notify us in writing.

If you close a permanent establishment as a member of a Chamber of Crafts, you must notify the Chamber of Crafts.

If you are a member of a Chamber of Skilled Crafts and change the address of a business premises, you must inform the Chamber of Skilled Crafts.

If you start or stop operating a portable shooting range, you must report this.

If address and contact details change for you as a member of a Chamber of Crafts, you must inform us of this.

If you as a breeding association or breeding company wish to make changes to an existing breeding program, you must notify the competent authority.

As a tax advisor or income tax assistance association, you can use the power of attorney database to retrieve and manage data and powers of attorney for your clients or members, and to display a power of attorney for representation and/or disclosure.

If you wish to carry out pest control on a commercial basis, you must notify the competent authority.

If the person responsible for radiation protection changes in your company, you must inform the competent authority.

Are you moving your business to a new location in the relevant municipality? Or do you offer additional other goods or services in the future that are unusual for the currently registered trade? In these and other cases, you must re-register your business.

If you as an entrepreneur wish to export plants and plant products subject to inspection, you must be entered in an official register. You can find out more here.

If you want to manufacture and/or repair packaging material made of wood as an entrepreneur, you must be entered in an official register. You can find out more here.

If you as an entrepreneur wish to treat wood in accordance with ISPM No. 15, you must be entered in an official register. You can find out more here.

If you start a business, take an interest in a business or become self-employed, you must inform the tax office.

You want to have your prostitution business run by another person? Then you need permission for the deputy.

You are professionally established in a Member State of the European Union or Switzerland and are authorised there to provide commercial assistance in tax matters in accordance with that law. To this end, you would like to provide this assistance temporarily and occasionally in Germany .

If you wish to carry out blasting work, you must register this with the competent authority. You can find out more here.

If you wish to operate a business, you must notify the relevant authority.

If you start a business, become self-employed or freelance, you must register this with the statutory accident insurance.

Would you like to become self-employed in a health or health profession? Find out more here.

You must report a new management of your craft business requiring approval to the competent Chamber of Crafts.

If you have taken delivery of grapes, mash, grape must, partially fermented grape must or young wine, you are obliged to specify the supplier companies and the products taken delivery of in the form of the list of suppliers.

As the operator of a prostitution business, would you like to employ persons in the areas of management and supervision? Then you must report this to the competent authority if you have a permit in accordance with Section 12 ProstSchG and the authority has instructed you to report this.

You can establish a cooperative as a European Cooperative. The registration must be made electronically in a publicly notarized form by a notary.

If you are insured as a farmer with the agricultural health insurance fund or long-term care fund and old-age insurance fund, you must register your family members who work in the company.

If you are a food establishment/business carrying out activities related to the production, processing or distribution of food (including internet commerce), you must register with your local food control authority.

Anyone who engages in prostitution in Germany is obliged to register with the authorities.

You can independently practice a craft subject to admission with a university degree obtained in the EU, the EEA or Switzerland, if the focus of study corresponds to that of the craft to be practiced.

Has your agricultural business exceeded the minimum size for compulsory insurance with the agricultural health insurance fund or nursing care insurance fund and old-age insurance fund? Then these funds will approach you to clarify the further requirements for insurance.

If your company provides postal services without requiring a license, you must notify the Federal Network Agency of the start, change and termination of operations.

If you have carried out a repair as a repairer, you must inform the competent authority immediately. You can find out more here.

If you are registered in the professional register for tax consultants, you are obliged to report changes to the responsible Chamber of Tax Consultants

If you have concluded a land lease agreement, you must report this to the competent authority within one month.

As a winegrower, cooperative or recognized producer group that accepts grapes or mash, you are required to report your grape harvest and wine production.

If you intend to operate or significantly modify a technical X-ray device and this is not subject to approval, you are obliged to notify the competent authority.

As a manufacturer or importer of cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, and hookah tobacco, you must print text image warnings on your cigarette and tobacco packaging. You can obtain the image files from the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety.

If you want to work as an insolvency administrator, you must first apply to be included on the pre-selection list. As a rule, only people who are on the pre-selection list for insolvency administrators are appointed to insolvency cases.

Public bodies, companies and private individuals can apply for information on business registration data.

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.

Only a few activities not requiring a travel trade license must be reported. Please check whether you need to notify the competent authority before taking up an activity that does not require a travel trade license.

If you open or close the operation of a branch or dependent branch for the commercial production and/or arms trade, you must report this.

If you wish to operate a restaurant, you must notify the competent authority in writing four weeks before the start of operation. You can find out more here.

If you have concluded a change to a land lease agreement, you must report this to the responsible office within one month.

If you wish to collect or transport waste or trade in waste, you must report the activity to the competent authority.

The employment of persons who work with third-party X-ray equipment or third-party interference sources and who may be exposed to a dose higher than 1 mSv must be reported to the competent authority.

If a trail camp is to be publicly announced, then you must indicate this in advance.

If you want to import wood or wood products from countries outside the EU for the first time, you have to notify the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE) once.

If you operate a pharmaceutical company that places finished medicinal products on the market, you must notify the competent authority of an information officer. Any changes must also be reported immediately.

If you wish to check, test, maintain or repair X-ray equipment or interference sources on a commercial basis, you must notify the competent authority before starting the activity.

You want to operate a restaurant permanently? Then you must report this in writing before the start of operation.

If you introduce eels into waters (stocking), you must record this and send it to the competent authority as an annual report.

As a construction manager or property developer, you must submit an annual audit report or alternatively a so-called negative declaration to your supervisory authority.

If you have achieved taxable sales within Germany as a business person, you must always submit a VAT return.

If you as a company supply household customers in Germany with energy via the public electricity or gas network, you must report this to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA).

Do you commercially control vertebrates as pests? Then you need a permit from the competent authority under animal protection law.

If you wish to operate a business in the livestock trade/livestock transport/collecting point sector, you must notify the competent authority before commencing the activity.