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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.

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

Who shall I contact
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

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.

Who shall I contact

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.

Who shall I contact

Depending on where your street business is located, you must request different types ofpublic space temporary occupancy permissions (AOT).

Tableau - Temporary authorisation to occupy the public domain (AOT) according to the place of street trading

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Authorisation Type

Who to contact

Halls, market, fair, fair, funfair

Market Location Request

City Hall, City Hall or Event Organiser

Public area (street, sidewalk, square): Food lorry, pizza lorry, crêperie lorry, mobile stand, street display, etc.

Parking Permit

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

Road Permission

City Hall, if this is the communal public domain

Who shall I contact

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