Apply for a Trade Licence Card

• Registered trade You must have a trade in Berlin. • Personal reliability You have to be personally reliable and prove this with corresponding current evidence from the Federal Central Criminal Register and the Central Business Register.

• Application The application can be submitted in text form. In addition to personal details, information on the intended occupation and the destination country is also required. • Identity document Identity card or other official identification document with photo. Residence permit if the applicant is not a national of an EU country. • Certificate of good conduct for presentation to an authority service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/120926/ To verify personal reliability, an extract from the Federal Central Register (certificate of good conduct) is required for submission to an authority (document type O). The information must not be older than three months. • Excerpt from the central business register for presentation to an authority service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/327835/ To verify personal reliability, information from the central business register is required for submission to an authority (document type 9). The information must not be older than three months. • If necessary, current excerpt from the commercial register Registered businesses please submit a current excerpt from the Commercial Register (Handelsregister).

40.00 to 500.00 euros per expense

• Trade Regulations (Gewerbeordnung or GewO) § 55 b Sec. 2 - Trade Licence Card www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gewo/__55b.html • Schedule of Administrative Fees (Verwaltungsgebührenordnung or VGebO) gesetze.berlin.de/bsbe/document/jlr-VwGebOBE2009rahmen

Approx. 1 week

• Information about privacy www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/ordnungsamt/ste

The application for a Gewerbelegitimationskarte (trade legitimation card) must be submitted to the Ordnungsamt (public order office) responsible for the business location.