Register a business
A trade is any non-socially unacceptable, self-employed, long-term and profit-making activity, carried out in one's own name and for one's own account.
The trade does not include, but is not limited to:
- socially unworthy activities, e.g. clairvoyance,
- primary production, e.g. agriculture and forestry,
- liberal professions, e.g. doctors, lawyers, tax consultants,
- the management of own assets (unless it is a company registered in the commercial register).
A business registration is always necessary if you start a permanent business. A permanent business means a business with a fixed place of business from or in which the business is carried out. This is the case if you:
- set up a new business,
- establish a new branch office,
- establish a dependent branch office,
- take over an existing business, for example by purchase or lease,
- convert a sole proprietorship into a different legal form,
- relocate a business from the area of one authority to the area of another authority (for one authority this is considered to be a discontinuation of the business for the other authority as a new establishment).
You must register your business at the same time as you start operating it. The obligation to register only applies if it is a commercial activity.
The following are exempt from business registration
- Primary production (livestock farming, agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing)
- Liberal professions
- Management of own assets
Find out at an early stage what personal, financial and professional requirements you need to fulfill in order to be able to operate in these business areas.
The purpose of registering a trade is to enable the competent authorities to monitor the exercise of the trade and to carry out statistical surveys.
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
Gemeinde Rhede (Ems) - Ordnungsamt/Gewerbe/Feuerwehrwesen
recipients: Gemeinde Rhede (Ems)
bank: Emsländische Volksbank
IBAN: DE08266614940000164300
recipients: Gemeinde Rhede (Ems)
bank: Sparkasse Emsland
IBAN: DE06266500010017000019
Sepa Direct Debit, Bank Transfer, Cash Payment, Paypal, Sepa Credit Transfer
Contact
- Rhede (Ems):
- Advertisement Change of person in the case of legal entities
- Advertisement of a restaurant
- Agriculture: damage caused by game
- Apply for a simple certificate of good conduct
- Apply for permission to sell goods at trade fairs, festivals and special events.
- Applying for a permit for the commercial exhibition of persons
- Applying for permission for special use
- Broadband coverage
- Burial place: Permit - to create/expand
- Business re-registration
- Car towed away - municipal information
- Citizens' telephone
- Compulsory education
- Cycling
- Data protection in municipalities
- Deregister trade
- Event: Display
- Exemptions on Sundays and public holidays
- Explosive ordnance: elimination
- Findings from the background check Certificate
- Fishing License Exhibition
- Flood protection
- Holiday offers
- Limited traffic zones
- Lost property
- Markets and festivals
- Measures to ensure public safety and order
- Mobile phone masts - municipal information
- Motor vehicles: wild accidents
- Noise pollution from neighbors
- 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
- Outdoor Advertising: Approval
- Parking barrier for a move: Facility
- Parking permit
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning Confirmation of the installation site
- Playground equipment with the possibility of winning permission
- Portable shooting range - apply for permission to operate
- Public holidays: approval - of exceptions to the general rest period
- Register a business
- Register burial
- Report wild garbage
- Restaurant operation Approval early start of operations
- Safety on the way to school
- Show hiking camp
- Show traveling trade or activity exempt from travel trade card
- Show use of biocides
- Store opening hours
- Street cleaning
- Suggestions and complaints
- Traditional bonfire (Easter fire)
- Traffic monitoring
- Traffic space restrictions: approval
- Travel trade card-exempt activity Authorization of exceptions for holding certain sales events
- Truancy
- Undeclared work notification
- Use of sound amplification systems: granting - exemption
- Voluntary work Appointment as a youth alderman
- Voluntary work Appointment as alderman
- Water Supervision
- Winter service
Requirements
You want to run a business.
Traders are
- natural persons or
- legal entities, e.g. public limited company (AG), limited liability company (GmbH), registered cooperative (eG) or registered association (e.V.), partnership limited by shares (KG)
The following must be notified:
- in the case of sole traders, the sole trader,
- in the case of partnerships (e.g. OHG, GbR), the partners authorized to manage the business
- in the case of limited partnerships (KG), each personally liable partner, the limited partners of a KG only if they have management authority
- in the case of corporations (e.g. GmbH, AG), the legal representative(s).
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, if applicable
- Proof of registration with the Chamber of Crafts, if applicable
- Certificate of authorization, if applicable,
- Craft 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 register your business in person, online, by post or fax.
- If you register in person or in writing, you must complete the "Business Registration" form (GewA 1) and sign it personally.
- The competent office will certify receipt of the business registration if the registration form has been completed in full
- The competent office forwards the business registration to other offices, such as the tax office, the employers' liability insurance association, the Chamber of Skilled 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?
You must register your business as soon as you start operating. A fine may be imposed for late registration.
Processing duration
- If you come in person: immediately
- In the case of written or electronic registration: within 3 days, provided the business registration form has been filled out completely and correctly and the required documents have been submitted.
Processing Time: 3 Days§ Section 15 (1) of the Trade Regulation Act (GewO)
What else should I know?
If you change your legal form, you must submit both a business deregistration (to cease operating under the old legal form) and a business registration (to start operating under the new legal form).
