Business re-registration
If you wish to relocate the registered office of your company within the jurisdiction of the municipality that was previously responsible, you must re-register your business. The same applies if you change the location of your registered office or the location of a branch or dependent branch office. The local trade or public order office is responsible for this.
The following are exempt from business re-registration:
- Primary production (livestock farming, agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing)
- Liberal professions
- Management of own assets
If you change your business activity, you must also re-register your business. This is the case, for example, if in future you offer goods or services in your business exclusively or additionally that are not customary in relation to your registered trade.
You must also re-register your business if your name as a trader or the name of the legal entity as a trader changes.
In the event of a change of business activity, a change of registration is required not only for a standing business, but also for a traveling trade.
The following persons or their authorized representatives must carry out the re-registration:
- in the case of sole traders, by the trader himself,
- in the case of legal entities, for example limited liability companies (GmbH), public limited companies (AG), by the legal representatives
In the case of partnerships, for example general partnerships (OHG), partnerships limited by shares (KG), partnerships under civil law (GbR), limited liability companies and limited partnerships (GmbH & Co. KG), all partners authorized to manage the business must register the business.
If you move your place of business to the jurisdiction of another municipality, you must first deregister the business at the previous location and then re-register it at the new location. This is not a re-registration.
Who should I contact?
Responsibility lies with the municipality, joint municipality or town in whose district the activity is to be carried out
This procedure can also be handled by a "single point of contact". The "Single Point of Contact" is a special service offered by the municipalities and the state for service providers.
Responsible authorities
Samtgemeinde Spelle - Fachbereich Ordnungsverwaltung/Bürgerservice
Montag 08:00 - 12:30 Uhr, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr
Dienstag 08:00 - 12:30 Uhr, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr
Mittwoch 08:00 - 12:30 Uhr
Donnerstag 08:00 - 12:30 Uhr, 14:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Freitag 08:00 - 12:30 Uhr
Samstag 10:00 - 12:30 Uhr (nur Bürgerbüro)
Contact
- Spelle (Samtgemeinde):
- Activity as a market trader or showman Admission
- Activity in a municipal cemetery Admission across borders as a gardener
- Activity in municipal cemetery Permanent gardener
- Activity in the municipal cemetery Temporary admission as gardener
- Advertisement Change of person in the case of legal entities
- Agriculture: damage caused by game
- Apply for a new ID card when it expires
- Apply for a new identity card because of theft
- Apply for a new identity card if lost
- Apply for a postal vote
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Apply for a temporary identity card
- Apply for a travel trade license
- Apply for an express passport
- Apply for an identity card
- Apply for an identity card as a person under 16
- Apply for an identity card for German citizens with permanent residence abroad
- Apply for an identity card for the first time
- Apply for identity card because of name change after divorce
- Apply for identity card because of other name change
- apply for identity card due to change of name on marriage
- Apply for permission to sell goods at trade fairs, festivals and special events.
- Apply for the fixing of trade fairs, exhibitions or markets
- Applying for a permit for the commercial exhibition of persons
- Applying for permission for special use
- Auctioneer trade - apply for permission
- Authorization certificate
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Business re-registration
- Certificate of eligibility
- Certificate of good conduct extended
- Certificate of voting rights
- Change of identity card due to change of address
- Change of residence
- Childcare services for seniors
- Children's passport change due to change of address
- Children's Passport Extension
- Children's Passport Issue
- Children's passport notification due to loss
- Children's passport notification due to relocation
- Children's passport report for theft
- Children's Passport Status Query
- Citizens' advice
- Confirmation of landlord
- Confirmation of registration issuance
- Construction site: Issuing - of construction site orders under traffic law
- Day care
- Deregister trade
- Display of a restaurant business
- Documents and copies: Certification
- Easter fire approval
- Elections
- Employment at the municipal cemetery Permanent admission as a stonemason, sculptor or gardener
- Entitlement to a place in a day-care centre
- EU funding
- Event: Display
- Exemptions for the auctioning of perishable goods Admission to weekly markets
- Exemptions on Sundays and public holidays
- Explosive ordnance: elimination
- Findings from the background check Certificate
- Fischer test: Acceptance
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Gaming arcade license
- Have address and personal data changed
- Have your identity card brought up to date
- Helping the homeless
- Holiday offers
- House number: Fixing
- ID card issue
- Identity card notification due to retrieval
- Identity card notification due to theft
- Identity card status query
- Information blocking device
- Information from the Central Trade Register Application
- Information in the population register Granting to landlords
- Information in the population register Provision of group information
- Information on the population register Provision to parties and voter groups
- Life certificate for submission to the pension insurance: Issue
- Limited traffic zones
- Lost property
- Markets and festivals
- Measures to ensure public safety and order
- Memorials
- Naturalization: Approval - for foreigners entitled to naturalization
- New passport issue due to change of name on divorce or dissolution of civil partnership
- Organization of a weekly market Determination
- Other games with the possibility of winning Permission in the traveling trade
- Other games with the possibility of winning: Permission
- Parking permit
- Passport change due to change of place of residence
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance
- Passport issuance for adults for the first time
- Passport issuance for frequent travelers
- 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 new due to expiry of validity
- Passport Issuance of additional passports
- Passport issuance provisionally
- Passport issue for minors for the first time
- Passport message for retrieval
- Passport notification due to loss
- Passport report for theft
- Passport status query
- Pawnbroking business - apply for a permit
- Place of residence Deregistration of main residence
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning Confirmation of the installation site
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning permission
- Population register information issuance extended
- Population register information Issue
- Population register information Provision of self-disclosure
- Provision of information from the population register for commercial purposes
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Re-registering an activity exempt from a travel trade card
- Register a business
- Registering your main residence
- Registration certificate issued
- Reporting obligation
- Reporting the loss of your own ID card
- Request simple information from the population register
- Requesting a vehicle to be taken out of service
- Residence Deregistration
- Residence Deregistration for boatmen and seafarers
- Residence Deregistration of secondary residence
- Residence Re-registration Change of status
- Residence Registration as secondary residence
- Residence Registration for boatmen and seafarers
- Restaurant operation Approval early start of operations
- Show hiking camp
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Show use of biocides
- Signatures: Certification
- Special obligation to register in accommodation establishments Registration
- Special reporting obligation in hospitals, homes and similar institutions Registration
- Store opening hours
- Tax Life Certificate: Issuance
- Temporary employment as a stonemason, sculptor or gardener at the municipal cemetery
- Traffic space restrictions: approval
- Transmission blocks in the registration register
- Travel trade card-exempt activity Authorization of exceptions for holding certain sales events
- Travel trade card-exempt activity Deregistration
- View Gathering
- Work at the municipal cemetery Admission across borders as a stonemason, sculptor and gardener
Requirements
- You relocate the registered office, a branch or a dependent branch within the jurisdiction of a municipality, or
- You change or expand the goods and services offered so that the character of your business changes
- The name of the trader changes
Applications / forms
The notification forms prescribed in Section 14 of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO) must be used in the trade notification procedure.
Which documents are required?
- Identity card or passport
- Extract from the commercial register
- Proof of registration with the Chamber of Crafts, if applicable
- Certificate of authorization, if applicable
- Trade card, if applicable
- in case of representation:
- Power of representation
What are the fees?
Fees are charged in accordance with No. 40.1.2 of Annex 1 to Section 1 (1) of the General Fee Regulations of the State of Lower Saxony (AllGO).
Process flow
You can re-register your business in person, online, by post or fax.
- If the re-registration is done in person or in writing, you must complete the form "Gewerbe-Ummeldung" - (GewA 2) and sign it personally.
- The "GewA 2" form is available at the office responsible for the re-registration or, depending on the service, can also be downloaded.
- The responsible office certifies receipt of the business re-registration if the re-registration form has been completed in full
- The responsible office forwards the business re-registration to other offices, such as the tax office, the employers' liability insurance association, the Chamber of Crafts, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and, if applicable, the registry court.
- The procedure can be handled by a single point of contact. You have a legal right to electronic processing.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
The change of business registration must be made at the same time as the relocation of the business or the change or expansion of the goods or services offered.
Processing duration
Processing Time: 3 Days§ Section 15 (1) of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
What else should I know?
Service providers who fulfill the requirements of Article 4 No. 5 of Directive (EC) No. 2006/123 on services in the internal market within the scope of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO) and therefore do not fall under Section 4 para. 1 sentence 2 GewO are also subject to notification, even if they maintain a branch in another EU Member State. Exceptionally, permanent activities outside a branch or without such a branch may also be subject to notification if they are initiated by the client.
