If you wish to offer goods for immediate sale at a trade show or exhibition, a public festival (e.g., a community festival, a shooting club festival, an inauguration ceremony, etc.), or as part of another special event, you need a permit from the appropriate authority, but you do not need a traveling vendor’s license.

You must apply for this permit with the appropriate authority.

If you already hold an itinerant trade license that authorizes you to offer certain or all goods for sale, that license is sufficient. In this case, you do not need an additional permit to sell goods at the events mentioned above.

After applying for a permit, the competent authority will decide whether to approve your request to sell the goods. The competent authority issues the permit for a specific location and a specific event—that is, for a limited period.

The permit is non-transferable. It does not replace any other permits or approvals that may need to be obtained from other authorities (e.g., permits under road or traffic laws—special use permits).

If the following goods are to be offered for sale at the aforementioned events, no permit is required (since a permit or exemption already exists on another basis):

• You sell products you have produced yourself from agriculture and forestry, vegetable and fruit cultivation, horticulture, poultry farming, beekeeping, hunting, and fishing.
• You sell goods in the municipality where you are registered as a resident or where you have registered your business establishment. However, this exception applies only if the municipality has no more than 10,000 residents.
• You sell milk and, if applicable, additional dairy products (e.g., yogurt, kefir, butter, cheese, etc.) and still hold a permit under the Milk and Margarine Act.
• You sell food or other everyday goods from a sales vehicle or a sales stand (“mobile store”) and do so outside of designated markets (e.g., weekly markets) at regular, shorter intervals, always at the same location.
• You sell printed materials on public roads, streets, squares, or in other public places. According to the Press Act, the term “printed materials” includes written works, spoken-word audio recordings (e.g., cassettes and other data carriers), visual representations with or without text, video recordings (video cassettes and other data carriers), and sheet music (printed materials containing musical notation) with text and explanations. However, you need a permit to sell such products door-to-door.

The sale of the goods you wish to offer must not be prohibited under the Itinerant Trade Act.