Street trade (non-sedentary)
Verified 01 January 2023 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister), Ministry of Economy
A street trading business is an activity that involves selling your services or products in an itinerant manner in different places of the public space. This can be a trade on markets or takeaway food (called food lorry). You must apply for a street trading card and a temporary public space permit (AOT). You must register your company at RNE: titleContent.
A trade is said travelling when selling your services or products in one or more different places in the public space.
You exercise this street trading outside your commercial premises or in a place other than your business address.
Examples:
- Take-away restore in public space (called food lorry)
- Street Pizza Lorry
- Forain (trader or fairground with a travelling attraction)
- Stand on a trade fair or trade fair (agricultural trade fair, etc.)
Warning
trade travelling does not correspond to a door-to-door activity, this is home canvassing or home seller, press collector, etc.
You have a fixed commercial space
You have a fixed commercial space where you sell products or services to customers.
Your business address is then the one of your fixed commercial space.
At the same time, you sell outside your commercial premises in a mobile store (lorry, stand, etc.).
Example :
you are a restaurant with a fixed restaurant and you also travel with a restaurant lorry either in a market or in a public space.
You do not have a fixed sales office
You trade said travelling by selling your services or products in one or more places different from your professional domicile.
In this case, your business address is usually the same as your home.
You are travelling from one place of sale to another place of sale. Or you sell in a place that's always the same.
Example :
You have a pizza lorry that moves from one place to another (or always placed in the same place), without owning a fixed pizzeria.
Warning
if you do not have a fixed address for your home, the traffic register and consignment receipt have been deleted.
You must first determine the nature of your business (craft, commercial, liberal, agricultural or industrial).
You must choose the legal form of your company (business or individual business self-entrepreneur).
You need to verify that you are completing the criteria for becoming a trader or becoming a craftsman.
Please note
The status of self-entrepreneur is addressed to all types of activity (commercial, craft, liberal, etc.) and requestperform specific formalities.
If you are a craftsman or a trader, you must register RNE: titleContent as a company in the trades and crafts sector.
If you are a merchant, you must register for the RCS: titleContent.
You must complete your company registration process on the company formalities window.
Warning
From 1to January 2023, it is no longer possible to make your paperwork in a company Formalities Centre (CFE). You have to make them on the website of company formalities window.
You must create a personal account. Then you must click on the column “ Company ” and then click on "Drop a company formality". One interactive online form of 8 pages is proposed to you; you have to fill it step by step. A manual is available on this Single Window website.
The requirement to carry a mobile business card varies depending on your activity and your travel.
Please note
If you do not have a fixed address for your home, the traffic register and consignment receipt have been deleted.
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You move out of your professional home town
You must have travelling business card.
This card allows you to move outside the municipality of your professional domicile.
You are concerned regardless of your status (craftsman, trader, micro-entrepreneur), whether or not you have a fixed commercial premises.
If you hire an employee who is travelling with or without you, they must have a copy of your card.
The card is valid for 4 years.
It costs €30.
Warning
For the street sale of alcohol, the street trading card is not enough. You must have sales licence take away. Street selling of hard liquor (rum, vodka, whisky, etc.) is prohibited. If you sell alcohol after 10 PM, you must have a specific training.
How to ask for the card?
You must complete Form 14022.
You must send it (by mail, mail or on the spot) to CCI: titleContent for traders, CMA: titleContent for craftsmen or craftsmen.
Pre-declaration for the exercise of a commercial or travelling craft activity
Card Renewal
The card is valid for 4 years.
You must make the renewal request yourself.
The application shall be made from one month before the expiry date until 2 months after that date. If you exceed this time limit, you must resubmit an initial request.
The waiting time to receive the new card is 15 days.
You must complete form 14022.
You must send it by mail or by mail (recommended with acknowledgement) or on site at CFE: titleContent your department (CCI: titleContent for traders, CMA: titleContent for craftsmen).
Pre-declaration for the exercise of a commercial or travelling craft activity
Who shall I contact
Please note
you can request a temporary card during the waiting period. You have to return the old card.
You only move within your community
You don't need the travelling business card.
You only make trips in the municipality of your professional domicile.
You are concerned regardless of your status (craftsman, trader, micro-entrepreneur), whether or not you have a fixed commercial premises.
You move to the customer's home
You don't need the travelling business card.
You are concerned regardless of your status (craftsman, trader, micro-entrepreneur), whether or not you have a fixed commercial premises.
The professions concerned are:
- Rural bread tours: a baker with a fixed bakery who also goes on tours with the private
- Rural grocery store tours: a grocery store that has its own fixed grocery store and also tours the home
- Home Repair (electrician, telephone, computer, etc.)
- Home Seller
- Trade Representative (VRP)
- Press collector
You are an artist and sell your works on the street
You don't need the travelling business card.
You must have road or parking permit.
You get it from the town hall.
You have a fixed location on a market (covered or uncovered)
If you have a fixed location on the market covered or uncovered, you don't need a travelling business card.
You must pay a subscription for this location.
The request is made at your town hall.
Depending on where your street business is located, you must request different types ofpublic space temporary occupancy permissions (AOT).
Busy | Authorisation Type | Who to contact |
---|---|---|
Halls, market, fair, fair, funfair | City Hall, City Hall or Event Organiser | |
Public area (street, sidewalk, square): Food lorry, pizza lorry, crêperie lorry, mobile stand, street display, etc. | Town hall in general or prefecture, if it is a national or departmental road or certain streets of the city | |
Kiosk fixed to the ground | City Hall, if this is the communal public domain |
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
For public domain installation permission (AOT)
CityFor AOT requests in Paris
Paris PrefectureFor parking permit
PrefectureTo support the creation and management of artisanal company
Chamber of crafts and craftsTo support the creation and management of a commercial company
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI)
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Speak with an advisor on Place des Entreprises- Commercial Code: Articles L123-29 to L123-31Travelling merchant card obligation
- Trade Code: Items R123-208-1 to R123-208-8Activities without the requirement for a mobile business card
- Public Health Code: Article L331-4Training for sale alcohol in takeaway after 10 pm
- Circular INTD1705027C of 19 April 2017 concerning Travellers
- Order of 19 July 2019 fixing the amount of the fee payable for obtaining the card enabling the exercise of a commercial or travelling craft activity
- Act No. 2020-1525 of 7 December 2020 on accelerating and simplifying public action: Article 127Deletion of the movement log and consignment receipt