apply for a liquor license
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzWould you like to serve alcoholic beverages? A liquor license is required for this.
Only the serving of non-alcoholic beverages is exempt from licensing. You also need a liquor license if alcoholic beverages are not offered within a purely gastronomic business, but as an ancillary service to another commercial enterprise (e.g. serving alcoholic beverages as part of a retail business - refreshment bar in a department store; tasting to increase the sale of alcoholic beverages).
If you intend from the outset to limit the serving of alcoholic beverages to a certain period (e.g. summer season, Christmas period, etc.), you can apply for a temporary liquor license.
The permit to serve alcoholic beverages is always issued for a specific type of business (e.g. pub, discotheque, etc.) and for specific premises.
If you wish to serve alcoholic beverages on an event-related basis (e.g. at town festivals, shooting festivals, funfairs and music events), you require a special permit, which you can obtain under simplified conditions. To do this, you must submit an "Application for temporary permission to operate a restaurant".
Once you have submitted the application and all the documents are complete, the competent body will check whether you meet all the requirements for the granting of the requested liquor license.
If you meet all the requirements, you will receive the permit.
Only when you have received the permit, you may start the commercial activity. At the same time as the start of the activity, the trade must be notified to the authority responsible for trade notifications in accordance with § 14 GewO.
Please contact the local municipal administration of the independent municipality, the association of municipalities or the municipal administration of the independent and district towns where the bar is located.
Alternatively, you can contact the Single Point of Contact in Rhineland-Palatinate.The Single Point of Contact is a public office through which you can handle all administrative procedures and formalities required for the commencement and exercise of your service activity and for the recognition of a foreign professional qualification. Further information can be found on the website of the Point of Single Contact.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, the local trade offices are responsible.
In order for you to be granted a liquor license, you must
- prove your personal reliability
This is checked on the basis of extracts from the Federal Central Register and the Central Trade Register.
- Prove your professional suitability. This is done by submitting proof of instruction in accordance with § 4 Para. 1 Sentence 1 No. 4 GastG from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce or an exemption in accordance with No. 3.4 of the General Administrative Regulation on Proof of Instruction in conjunction with its Appendix 3 to prove your professional suitability.
- Prove that the property-related requirements are met. For example, the premises must meet the requirements of the building regulations set up to protect the health and life of guests and employees, as well as the requirements for toilets. In addition, no harmful environmental effects may emanate from the operation. Accessibility requirements are also checked.
- Copy of identity card or passport with certificate of registration, or presentation on site. Documents relating to the building in which the restaurant is located: Site plan, floor plan to scale and sectional drawing of the establishment (seating plan). If necessary, in duplicate
- Certificate in tax matters from the tax office of the place in which you have lived or operated a business in the last three years.
- Application for a certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority in accordance with § 30 Paragraph 5 of the Federal Central Register Act (Bundeszentralregistergesetz)
- Application for an extract from the Central Trade Register for submission to an authority in accordance with Section 150 (5) of the Trade, Commerce and Industry Regulation Act (Gewerbeordnung)
- Negative certificate from the insolvency court of those local courts in whose district you have had a residence or a commercial establishment in the last three years
- Extract from the debtor file via the enforcement portal of the federal states pursuant to section 882b of the German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO)
- Proof of instruction from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) on the basic principles of food law in accordance with § 4 Para. 1 Sentence 1 No. 4 GastG.
- For legal entities: Current excerpt from the commercial register or register of associations or a copy of the shareholders' agreement or articles of association.
- If the application is submitted by a representative: Power of attorney
- Residence permit, if applicable.
The amount of the fee depends on the administrative effort and the respective administrative fee regulations of the respective country.
Before you start operating, you must have a restaurant license. A timely application is therefore required.
If the authority has not made a decision on an application for permission to operate a trade within a period of three months after receipt of the complete documents (§ 42 Abs. 2 Satz 2 Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz), the permission is deemed to have been granted (§ 6 a Abs. 1 GewO).
This also applies to procedures under the Catering Act, as long as there are no regulations under Land law (§6a Para.2 GewO).
You must notify the authority responsible for trade notifications according to § 14 GewO of the start of the permitted activity.
If the documents are complete, the application will be processed promptly.
- opposition
- administrative claim
- Written form required: no
- Online procedure possible: yes
- Personal appearance necessary: no
You may not serve alcoholic beverages on your premises without a permit.
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Your responsible office:
Verbandsgemeinde Lingenfeld - Fachbereich 3.1 - Ordnung und Verkehr
Visitor address
67360 Lingenfeld
Building access
Contact
Telephone
Fax
Website
Opening hours
Mondays and Tuesdays
08:00 to 12:00 and
14:00 to 16:00
Wednesdays (service day)
08:00 to 12:30 and
14:00 to 18:00
Thursdays
08:00 to 12:00
closed in the afternoon
Fridays (service lunchtime)
08:00 to 13:00
Remark:
- Passport and resident registration
- Civil status and citizenship
- Funeral services and registry office
- Lost and found office
- Fire department and fire protection matters
- Civil protection and disaster control
- Snake control
- Trade law
- Fisheries
- Homeless matters
- Traffic control and fines
- Traffic control and traffic licenses/permits
- Municipal enforcement service
- Police district officer
Contact person
Visitor address
67360 Lingenfeld
Address
67360 Lingenfeld
Remark:
Building: Main building
Telephone
Fax
Website
Position
room
Responsible for:
- Lingenfeld:
- Application to shorten the closing time in accordance with restaurant law
- Apply for European Professional Card
- Apply for a gaming arcade license
- Apply for a license as a commercial real estate loan broker
- Apply for a license as a real estate agent, loan broker, property developer, building supervisor or residential property manager
- Apply for a permit for dangerous dogs
- Apply for a stand permit
- Apply for a travel trade card
- Apply for an exemption permit for the use of certain work equipment to ensure operational safety
- Apply for exemptions from prohibitions in travel trade
- Apply for extension of the travel business card
- Apply for issuance of the driver qualification certificate
- Apply for permission to show people for commercial purposes
- Apply for provisional restaurant permit
- Applying for a replacement permit for a hospitality business that requires a permit
- Applying for a special use permit to offer goods and services in public areas
- Auctioneering trade - apply for permission
- Averting danger/maintaining public safety and order
- Business re-registration
- Catering industry, apply for permission on special occasions
- Community policy, economic and social cohesion
- Cruelty to animals
- Deregister trade
- Disaster prevention
- Dog attack report
- Duplicate business registration
- Extend registration of prostitution activities
- Fire protection
- Getting a certificate of successful participation in instruction for security personnel
- Hand in garden and park waste (green waste) for disposal
- Homelessness Help with imminent loss of housing
- Installation of gambling machines
- Operation of systems requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance Check changes subject to inspection after recommissioning
- Operation of systems requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance Check inspection before first commissioning
- Organizing other games with the possibility of winning where the prize consists of money
- Pawnbroking - apply for a permit
- Periodically check the operation of systems requiring monitoring in accordance with the Industrial Safety Ordinance
- Public events: Implementation
- Register business
- Register marriage
- Register prostitution activity
- Report explosive ordnance
- Request confirmation of the installation site for playground equipment
- Request information about traders
- Restaurant license
- Restaurant: Continuation of the business
- Road closures
- Security business - apply for a permit
- Show travel trade or travel trade card free activity
- Subsequent inclusion, amendment and supplementation of conditions or listed activities of the traveling trade permit application
- Test alarm and test warnings on the nationwide warning day
- apply for a liquor license
- apply for restart of business after interdiction