Trade fair, market, exhibition - Closed rooms

Anyone wishing to organise a trade fair, exhibition or market in enclosed spaces with market privileges requires a licence.

Description

Market privileges include, for example, exemptions from the law on shop closing times or public holidays or participation without a travelling trade licence.

You must apply for an authorisation in writing.

Deadline:
The application should be made at least six weeks before the planned date.

Formal security concept:
Under certain conditions, you must draw up and agree a formal security concept for your event.

Time limit:
The event may last a maximum of four weeks.

Required documents

  • Fully completed form for the registration of trade fairs, markets and exhibitions (available for download)
  • Agreement on the use of the event space
  • Type and wording of the public invitation to tender for exhibitors
  • Provisional list of exhibitors (at least twelve participants - excluding catering stands - each with name, address and product range)
  • Wording of the conditions of participation
  • Proof of personal reliability of the organiser: certificate of good conduct and extract from the central trade register (for submission to the authorities)
  • precise site plan of the event showing all sales stands, stages, other structures, escape and rescue routes

Duration & Costs

Fees

130 to 920 euros (depending on the number of event days)

Questions & Answers

A commercial event for the sale of goods (speciality market, funfair).

At a trade fair, the main product range of one or more sectors of the economy is exhibited and sold, mainly by sample, to commercial resellers, bulk buyers or consumers.

At an exhibition, a representative range of products is exhibited and sold or information about this range is provided for the purpose of promoting sales.

Legal basis

Industrial Code
State Penal and Ordinance Act
Ordinance on Places of Assembly

Landeshauptstadt München

Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung I Sicherheit und Ordnung, Prävention
Veranstaltungs- und Versammlungsbüro (VVB)

Internet

Postal address

Landeshauptstadt München
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung I Sicherheit und Ordnung, Prävention
Veranstaltungs- und Versammlungsbüro (VVB)

Ruppertstraße 19
80466 München

Fax: +49 89 233-45127

Address

Ruppertstraße 11
80337 München

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