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Trade - Register persons for the reliability check (Zuverlässigkeitsüberprüfung)

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Machine translation of the German page, 2026-09-15. The German original is binding.
If you run a trade business in which, under trade law (Gewerberecht), certain persons must be checked for reliability, you are required to notify the responsible authority (Zuständigkeit) of these persons without delay. This also applies if someone joins the business only at a later date. For legal entities, this notification obligation applies to every person authorized to represent the entity. Process 1. Notify the responsible authority of the persons whose reliability is to be checked. Please give complete information in your notification and enclose the required documents. The notification can be submitted informally by post or by email. 2. The responsible office checks your information and documents and, if necessary, requests any missing evidence for the reliability check. 3. Decision • If the required documents have been submitted and the reliability check is positive, you will receive a fee notice (Gebührenbescheid) and the confirmation by post. • If the check is negative, or if required documents are missing, a Gewerbeuntersagung (prohibition from carrying on the trade) will be issued on grounds of unreliability. In this case, you can read the reason for the refusal in the notice from the responsible office.

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Requirements

• You are obliged to report persons for a reliability check You are obliged to do so as: • Organizer of trade fairs, exhibitions and markets • Operator of the following trades: • Security services trade • Exhibition of persons • Operator of gaming machines • Organizer of other games with a chance of winning • Pawnbroking trade • Auctioneering trade • Real estate agents, loan brokers, property developers, construction project managers, residential property managers • Financial investment brokers, fee-based financial investment advisers • Real estate loan brokers • Trades subject to supervision (such as trade in certain used goods, private investigation agencies, marriage brokering, travel agencies, sale and installation of building security equipment, locksmith services). • Personal reliability For this, the applicant must provide a certificate from the Bundeszentralregister (Federal Central Register) (Führungszeugnis [certificate of good conduct]) and a certificate from the Gewerbezentralregister (Central Trade Register).

Documents you need

• Reporting of persons for the reliability check The report can be submitted informally by post or email. • Please state which person is joining which trade/business. • Please include the following information in the report: first and last name, birth name if applicable, date and place of birth, nationality, registered address(es) for the last five years (street, house number, postal code, city and, if applicable, country or state) • Proof of identity • Personalausweis (identity card) or other official photo ID document • Aufenthaltstitel (residence permit), if the applicant is not a national of an EU country • Führungszeugnis zur Vorlage bei einer Behörde (certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority) service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/120926/ To verify personal reliability, a certificate from the Bundeszentralregister (Federal Central Criminal Register) (Führungszeugnis) for submission to an authority (document type O) is required. The certificates must not be older than three months. • Gewerbezentralregisterauszug zur Vorlage bei einer Behörde (extract from the Central Trade Register for submission to an authority) service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/327835/ To verify personal reliability, a certificate from the Gewerbezentralregister (Central Trade Register) for submission to an authority (document type 9) is required. The certificates must not be older than three months. • Bescheinigung in Steuersachen (certificate of tax matters) service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/324713/ Certificate of no objection (Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung) from the locally responsible Finanzamt (tax office).

Fees

50,00 bis 350,00 Euro je Aufwand 50.00 to 350.00 euros per effort

Legal basis

• Gewerbeordnung (GewO, Trade Regulation Act) § 7 – notification requirement for trades subject to a reliability check www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gewo/__7.html • Verwaltungsgebührenordnung (VGebO, Administrative Fees Ordinance) gesetze.berlin.de/bsbe/document/jlr-VwGebOBE2009rahmen

Further information

• Data protection notice (Ordungsämter des Landes Berlin [public order offices of the State of Berlin]) www.berlin.de/formularverzeichnis/?formular=/wirtschaft/gewe

Who is responsible

The notification must be sent to the Ordnungsamt (public order office) in whose district your business premises are located.

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Original

German original

Service number 354589 · same path as the original: service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/354589/