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

If you want to place or broker bets on public horse races as a bookmaker, you need a license.You can find out more about this here.

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).

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

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.

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.

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

Would you like to run a private clinic? Here you will find all the necessary information.

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 authorized to submit building plans, 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 successfully and now want to become a member of the Chamber of Engineers? Find out more 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 look after one or more children as a childminder, you generally need a permit.

A permit is required to operate a stationary shooting range.

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.

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

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 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 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).

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.

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.

If you have completed professional veterinary training but do not have a German license to practice medicine, you can apply for a temporary permit to practice your profession. You can find out more here.

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.

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

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

If you want to install a new or significantly change a heating oil consumer system or emergency power system, this may be subject to notification. Please find out here what you need to observe.

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 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 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).

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.

Do you want to set up a tax consulting company? Find out here what you need to bear in mind.

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.

Do you want to build, substantially change or shut down a liquid manure, slurry or silage leachate plant or a plant for storing solid manure or silage? Then you may have to submit a notification to the lower water authority.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 wish to import wood or wood products from countries outside the EU for the first time, you must register this once with the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE).

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.

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

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.

You would like to offer catering with alcoholic beverages within the framework of a temporary event (e.g. funfair, city festival, shooting festival) or for another temporary reason (e.g. construction canteens)? Then you need a temporary permit (Gestattung).

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 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 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.

Would you like to set up a prostitution vehicle? Then you must notify the competent authority before setting it up.

Would you like to organize or hold a prostitution event? Then you must report this to the competent authority in addition to your existing permit.

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

Only a few activities that do not require a travel authorization card must be reported. Before starting an activity that is not subject to a travel authorization card, please check whether you may have to report it to the responsible office.

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

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 are setting up a business, you can find here information on the procedures, formalities and authorisations you have to follow.

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 market eggs from your laying hen farm, you may have to register it.
Upon registration, your farm will be assigned an identification number.

If your company provides postal services, you must be entered in the digital directory of postal service providers at the Federal Network Agency.

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

If you as a business operator wish to export plants and plant products and other objects subject to inspection to non-EU countries and require a phytosanitary certificate, you must register.

Under certain conditions, you can apply to register an ELT emergency transmitter code or change an existing registration.

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

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.

If you wish to change the accreditation of a conformity assessment body, you must submit an application to the Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (DAkkS).

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 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.

In order to run your law firm as a professional practice company with limited liability or to include persons as partners who are not members of the Chamber of Lawyers, Patent Attorneys, Tax Consultants or Auditors, you must apply for a license.

Upon request, the supervisory authority can exempt you from the obligation to appoint an anti-money laundering officer under certain conditions.

If you wish to apply for accreditation for a conformity assessment body for the first time, you must submit an application for initial accreditation to the German Accreditation Body (DAkkS).

If your company is entered in the digital directory of postal service providers at the Federal Network Agency, you must report any operational changes.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

As the operator of a prostitution business, you must notify the competent authority of certain changes.

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.

If your company is entered in the digital directory of postal service providers at the Federal Network Agency, but you no longer provide postal services, you must report the termination of your activity.

If you run a pharmacy, you must register your participation in the narcotics trade with the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM).

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

If you wish to continue operating a restaurant after the death of the owner, 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.

The pan-European network of  Points of Single Contact can provide you with details of any legal requirements and help you to complete relevant procedures.

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

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

Do you run a prostitution business and want to employ people to manage and supervise your business? Then you must report this to the competent authority in certain cases.

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 run a business that is subject to the levy, you must register your business with the Künstlersozialkasse.

If you as an entrepreneur wish to import plants and plant products subject to inspection from non-EU countries, you must be entered in an official register. You can find out more here.

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 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.

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

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.