Commercial road haulage - Apply for a permit
Road haulage is the commercial or paid transport of goods with motor vehicles that have a gross vehicle weight of more than 3.5 tons, including trailers.
On May 21, 2022, new regulations on the market and professional access regulations for vehicles over 2.5 tons gross vehicle weight in cross-border traffic will come into force. Accordingly, companies require a Community license for international commercial road haulage with vehicles of more than 2.5 tons and no more than 3.5 tons gross vehicle weight.
This means that in future the conditions for access to the profession, i.e. requirements for an establishment, proof of professional suitability, financial capacity and personal reliability for the aforementioned transports, must also be met.
Commercial road haulage is generally subject to licensing, whereas so-called own-account haulage, i.e. road haulage for a company's own purposes, is not subject to licensing under certain conditions.
If the vehicles are only used throughout Germany, you require a permit for commercial road haulage (in accordance with Section 3 of the Road Haulage Act). For cross-border journeys within the European Union, the European Economic Area (EEA)* and Switzerland, you need a Community license (EU license) and, if applicable, a driver's certificate for nationals of a third country.
You can also use the Community license for transports within Germany and the EEA states ("cabotage transports").
For commercial road haulage with countries outside the European Economic Area, you require bilateral permits or so-called CEMT permits in addition to the national permit for the German part of the route (permit for commercial road haulage or Community license) for parts of the route in third countries.
If you are driving into or through Switzerland as part of commercial road haulage, you need a valid Community license.
The permit for commercial road haulage and the Community license can be issued for a limited period, subject to conditions or with conditions. The national permit can be issued for a period of validity of up to 10 years. The Community license is issued for 5 years.
Legal basis
- § Section 10 of the Ordinance on Professional Access for Road Haulage (GBZugV)
- § Section 3 of the Road Haulage Act (GüKG)
- General administrative regulation on road haulage law (GüKVwV)
- Art. 3 and 4 Regulation (EC) No. 1072/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of October 21, 2009 on common rules for access to the international road haulage market (recast)
- Art. 3 Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing common rules concerning the conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator and repealing Council Directive 96/26/EC
Which documents are required?
- Documents for the applicant company:
- Extract from the commercial, partnership, cooperative or association register, if a corresponding entry exists
- for GbR companies: Extract from the GbR contract
- Proof of authorization to represent the company if a person other than the applicant is professionally qualified to do so
- Proof of reliability:
- Certificate of good conduct for the person authorized to represent the company (not older than three months)
- Information from the central trade register for the person authorized to represent (not older than three months)
- Information from the driving aptitude register for the person authorized to represent (not older than three months)
- Proof of financial capacity:
- Clearance certificate from the tax office (not older than three months)
- Clearance certificate from the municipality (not older than three months)
- Clearance certificate from the health insurance company (not older than three months)
- Clearance certificate from the Berufsgenossenschaft Verkehrswirtschaft, Post-Logistik, Telekommunikation (BG Verkehr) (not older than three months)
- Equity certificate as proof of financial capacity in commercial road haulage (Annex 2 of the General Administrative Regulation on Road Haulage Law (GüKVwV)) and
- if necessary, additional certificate to prove financial capacity in commercial road haulage (Annex 3 of the General Administrative Regulation on the Road Haulage Act (GüKVwV))
- Proof of professional aptitude:
- Certificate of having passed the IHK professional qualification examination or an equivalent recognized final examination or
- Proof of at least 10 years of managerial activity in a road haulage company (the Chamber of Industry and Commerce responsible for you will check whether the requirements are met)
- Documents for persons who are appointed to manage the road haulage business (transport manager):
- Proof of reliability:
- Certificate of good conduct (not older than three months)
- Information from the central trade register (not older than three months)
- Information from the driving aptitude register (not older than three months)
- Proof of professional aptitude:
- Certificate of having passed the IHK professional qualification examination or an equivalent recognized final examination or
- Proof of at least 10 years of managerial activity in a road haulage company (the Chamber of Industry and Commerce responsible for you will check whether the requirements are met)
- Proof of financial capacity:
- Clearance certificate from the health insurance company (not older than three months)
- Proof of employment
- Proof of reliability:
Requirements
The permit is granted to an entrepreneur whose company is actually and permanently based in Germany if
- the entrepreneur and the person appointed to manage the road haulage business (transport manager) are reliable,
- the financial capacity of the company is guaranteed and
- the entrepreneur or the person appointed to manage the road haulage business is professionally qualified.
The company requires equity capital plus reserves. The amount of capital is determined by the number of vehicles intended for use. For the first vehicle, the entrepreneur requires equity capital of EUR 9,000, for each additional vehicle EUR 5,000. This also applies to the use of rental vehicles.
A person is professionally qualified if he or she has passed a professional qualification test. All examinations previously recognized as equivalent continue to be considered equivalent if they were started or completed before 4 December 2011.
Persons who have worked continuously (at least ten years) in a managerial position in a road haulage company between December 4, 1999 and December 4, 2009 are also deemed to be professionally qualified.
What are the fees?
National license for commercial road haulage: 120,00 - 700,00 EUR
Community license: EUR 120.00 - 700.00
Further costs are incurred for information from the registers and for the preparation of other certificates.
Process flow
You must apply for the national road haulage permit or the Community license (EU license) from the transport authority responsible for your place of business.
You can obtain the application form from the competent transport authority. Online forms are also available, depending on what the authority offers.
Complete the application in full and submit it with the required documents.
The competent transport authority will give the following institutions the opportunity to comment:
- the Federal Office for Goods Transport,
- the Chamber of Industry and Commerce
- the relevant trade union and
- the transport industry association.
Once the deadline for comments has expired, the competent transport authority will decide on your application. You will receive a decision.
Processing duration
Processing can take up to 3 months from the time at which the responsible office receives all the necessary documents.
What else should I know?
Road haulage for the company's own purposes does not require a permit if the following conditions are met:
- the transported goods must be owned by the company or sold, purchased, leased, rented, manufactured, produced, extracted, processed or repaired by the company.
- the purpose of the transportation must be to deliver the goods to the company, to dispatch them from the company, to transport them within the company or for the company's own use outside the company.
- the motor vehicles used for the transportation must always be driven by the company's own staff.
- The transportation may only be an ancillary activity within the scope of the company's overall activity.
If road haulage for the company's own purposes does not require a permit, the company operating road haulage is obliged to register its business with the Federal Office for Goods Transport before the first transport operation begins.
The Federal Office for Goods Transport is responsible for issuing the bilateral permit or a so-called CEMT permit for cross-border commercial road haulage and removal traffic in the community of CEMT member states (over 30 states in Europe).
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Competent authority
In Lower Saxony, responsibility lies with the district, the independent city or the large independent city.
Contact point
Responsible authorities
Einheitsgemeinde Haselünne, Stadt
Timetable
Timetable
Contact
- Haselünne:
- AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections Counseling
- Animal enclosure display
- Application for approval as a transport company in accordance with the EU Animal Welfare Transport Regulation
- Application for issuance of a German death certificate in case of death abroad
- Application for the issuance of a certificate of no impediment to marriage for German nationals, stateless persons, homeless foreigners or foreign refugees within the meaning of the Convention on the Status of Refugees with Habitual Residence in Germany
- Apply for a death certificate
- Apply for a permit to supply / dispense certain hazardous substances and mixtures in accordance with ChemVerbotsV
- Apply for a resident parking permit
- Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
- Apply for blind person's allowance
- Apply for care assistance
- Apply for certificate of seclusion according to the Condominium Act
- Apply for infection protection instruction including certificate
- Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities, minors with physical or mental disabilities or sensory impairments
- Assistance for subsistence: granting
- Assistance in other situations Authorisation
- Authorisation for exemptions from the Highway Code: granting
- Authorisation for the non-commercial handling and acquisition of explosive substances Granting
- Avian influenza
- Basic provision in old age and in the event of reduced earning capacity (social assistance)
- Birth certificate issuance
- Birth registers
- Broadband coverage
- Building file archive
- Building permit issuance in the simplified building permit procedure
- Bulky waste disposal by collection
- Bulky waste disposal by personal delivery
- Calculating and setting the wastewater levy
- Car towed - municipal information
- Carcasses and animal by-products: disposal
- Change to the church tax deduction when joining the church
- Change to the church tax deduction when leaving the church
- Children's Passport Extension
- Children's Passport Status Query
- Children's passport notification due to relocation
- Church admission: Declaration
- Citizens' consultation hours
- Citizenship card: Issuance
- Commercial properties
- Community licence for the international and national carriage of passengers by coach and bus: issue
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Damage to roads and bridges: Notification
- Data protection in municipalities
- Disaster prevention
- Documents and copies: Certification
- Dog ownership deregistration
- Driver's license issue new due to name change
- Driving licence: Extension - driving licence of categories C and D
- Driving licence: issued - on trial
- Early Aid Offer
- Earth excavation display for wells
- Electronic proof of identity blocking
- Electronic residence permit issuance
- Enrollment of a child in elementary school
- Establishment of a civil partnership Notarisation
- Event: Advertisement
- Events in public transport areas: Permission
- Exchange old driver's license for a new one
- Exemption for the use of floodplains: granted
- Exemption from the driving ban on Sundays and public holidays: Authorisation
- Explosive ordnance: elimination
- Extend registration of prostitution activities
- Family book: Exhibition
- Family name change
- Firearms license
- Foster children
- GIS - Geographical Information System
- Game Warden Confirmation
- Garden waste disposal
- Guardianship Institution
- Guardianship law
- Handling of water-polluting substances Display
- Help for pregnant women
- House number: Fixing
- Household waste disposal
- Hunting lease: Advertisement
- Hunting license: exhibition
- Information blocking device
- Information in the population register Granting to landlords
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with custodial partner
- Intended for deletion - marriage consummation with divorced or widowed partner
- Interference with nature and landscape: authorisation
- Keeping dangerous dogs Permission
- Keeping of farm animals - display
- Land use plan
- Landscape and green space plans
- Lost property
- Manufacture, authorization, supply and import of veterinary medicinal products: information provided
- Markets and festivals
- Marriage consummation only for German citizens
- Marriage consummation with foreign partner
- Medical Service / Youth Medical Service
- Municipal sports facilities
- Naturalization: Approval - for foreigners entitled to naturalization
- Obligations of waste disposal and recovery companies
- Operation Prostitution Business Permit
- Operation of a shooting range in enclosed spaces: display
- Organ donation
- Organization or execution of prostitution events Permit
- Parenting, marriage, family and life counselling
- Parking barrier for a move: Facility
- Passport Issuance of additional passports
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance new due to change of name upon marriage or establishment of a civil partnership
- Passport issuance new due to change of other data
- Passport issuance provisionally
- Passport message for retrieval
- Passport status query
- Pay trade tax
- Permit-free construction measures Notification
- Permits and exceptions to excessive road use: granting
- Planning approval
- Playgrounds: Maintenance
- Population register information Provision of self-disclosure
- Possession of poliovirus display
- Preservation of Historical Monuments
- Process-free construction measures
- Protection of children and adolescents
- Providing a prostitution vehicle permit
- Provision of information from the population register for commercial purposes
- Psychiatric institution (closed) - Accommodation
- Recognition of paternity
- Register at the secondary school
- Register burial
- Register marriage
- Registration for the transportation of animal by-products
- Report significant changes for housing benefit such as number of household members, rent, charges or income
- Reporting suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing
- Reporting the loss of your own ID card
- Representation permit for a prostitution business Permit
- Residence Re-registration Change of status
- Residence Registration as main residence
- Road signs and traffic facilities: modification
- School enrolment examination
- School excursions, school trips and comparable trips from day-care centres: reimbursement of costs
- School travel costs
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips by day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to the Federal Child Benefit Act
- Second home tax exemption
- Self-help groups
- Senior citizens' and nursing homes in Lower Saxony
- Shelter (children, adolescents and young adults)
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Show use of biocides
- Special obligation to register in accommodation establishments Registration
- Store opening hours
- Studying in Lower Saxony
- Tax Life Certificate: Issuance
- Temporary authorisation for road passenger transport: grant
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Transmission blocks in the registration register
- Undeclared work notification
- Vacation
- Vaccination: Advice
- Vegetable waste disposal by incineration
- Voluntary Social Year
- Voluntary work Appointment as a youth alderman
- Advertisement of non-profit and commercial waste collections
- Ambulance transport
- Animal Event Permit
- Application for exemption from presentation of the certificate of marriageability for foreign nationals.
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Applying for a permit under immission control law for the construction and operation of systems
- Applying for an increase in housing benefit
- Assistance for the elderly
- Avoidance, recycling and disposal of waste Consulting
- Building encumbrances: Entry - in the register of building encumbrances
- Building permit issuance
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Cancel display
- Care and care of children and adolescents in emergency situations
- Carrying out collections Provision of information
- Change of use of buildings Approval
- Childcare services for seniors
- Children's Passport Issue
- Children's passport notification due to loss
- Chimney sweep
- Compensatory and substitute measures for nature conservation
- Confirmation of development
- Construction site: Issuance of construction site orders under traffic law
- Construction supervision
- Conveyance
- Cycling
- Declaration of the right to a name
- Decoration of Honour of the Land
- Determination of the route of dangerous goods transports: Issue - Determination of individual routes
- Distinction between crafts and non-crafts - consulting
- Dog ownership registration
- Domestic slaughter
- Driving licence: transfer - foreign driving licence
- Early intervention for the hearing impaired
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- Environmental information on contaminated sites and areas suspected of being contaminated sites: Information
- Exemption for compulsory use of seat belts and helmets: Granting
- Exemption for the use of tools between 20:00 and 7:00: issuance
- Express passport issue
- Family holidays: Funding
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Food inspection
- Granting access to building permits for neighbours
- Have address and personal data changed
- Helping the homeless
- Home care
- Housekeeping help
- Housing benefit cancellation/invalidity
- Identity card notification due to retrieval
- Identity card notification due to theft
- Information in the population register Provision of group information
- Licence for the (cross-border) carriage of goods by road for commercial purposes / Community licence
- Local law
- Memorials
- New passport issue due to change of name on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership
- Obtain a certificate for carrying narcotics when traveling abroad
- Out-of-court dispute resolution
- Passport issuance for frequent travelers
- Passport issuance new due to expiry of validity
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport report for theft
- Pension scheme
- Permit for the extraction of mineral resources: Granting
- Professional drivers - confirm basic qualification
- Protection of animals
- Register of contaminated sites: Information
- Register your child at a secondary school
- Report conclusion of the land lease agreement
- School performance: assessment
- Show installation of a prostitution vehicle
- Signatures: Certification
- Street cleaning
- Towing permit: issue
- Urban land-use planning
- Use of sound amplification systems: granting - exemption
- Violence against women
- Waste disposal
- Waste tyre storage facilities of less than 100 tonnes: approval
- Water law permit for structural installations on water bodies: Granting
- Winter service
- Apply for a subsidy for expenses on a monument
- Assessment of second home tax
- Bathing water quality monitoring
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of identity card due to change of address
- Children's passport change due to change of address
- Commercial Waste Disposal
- Commuter Portal
- Dementia - Information options
- Direct discharge of rainwater: permission
- Disturbance of street lighting: message
- Driving licence: Issuance - International driving licence
- Driving license: Issue - Passenger transport
- Environmental impact assessment
- Exemption from the observance of the night's rest for events: granting
- Flood protection
- Gun ownership card: issuance - for sport shooters
- Health advice for prostitutes
- Hunting permit: notification
- Immission control: Inspection - due to impairment
- Medical officer
- Notification period of an auction: shortening
- Nursing homes, forms of assisted living, outpatient assisted living communities: Obligation to notify - Operation
- Outdoor Advertising: Approval
- Parking permit
- Passport change due to change of place of residence
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance for adults for the first time
- Passport notification due to loss
- Petrol stations Advertisement Commissioning: Limitation of the release of fuel vapours
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Resident certificate issuance
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB II
- Special reporting obligation in hospitals, homes and similar institutions Registration
- Tuberculosis counselling
- Veterinary affairs
- Volunteering
- War Victims' Welfare Grant for injured persons
- property tax assessment received
- Addiction counselling
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a tree felling permit for municipally protected trees
- Apply for certificates of origin and other certifications required for foreign trade from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Assistance to overcome particular social difficulties
- Biowaste disposal
- Carrying out school dental check-ups
- Certificate of competence for keeping chickens for fattening
- Children's passport report for theft
- Citizens' advice
- Commercial cattle trade: advertisement
- Commercial road haulage - Apply for a permit
- Confirmation of landlord
- Construction of a small sewage treatment plant: Advertisement
- Day care
- Dog tax assessment
- Driving license: Extension
- Extending the validity of a resident parking permit
- Identity card status query
- Improvement of regional economic structure Support
- Legal biotope protection
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance: issue
- Nature conservation area: Determination
- Organization or implementation of prostitution events Advertisement
- Permission to drive in protected landscape areas: Issuance
- Permission to operate a prostitution establishment
- Permit and exemption for large-capacity and heavy goods traffic: issue
- Preliminary building inquiry and preliminary building permit
- Private trips abroad with pets (dogs, cats, ferrets)
- Recovery of maintenance
- Register prostitution activity for the first time
- Residence Registration as secondary residence
- School trips, school trips and comparable trips of day-care centres: reimbursement - of costs according to SGB XII
- Setting a waste fee
- Voluntary work Appointment as alderman
- Waste paper: disposal
- Water Supervision
- Water permit for the abstraction of groundwater: Granting
- Welfare
- Wohnberechtigungsschein: Issuance
- Zoo: Approval