Trade fair, market, exhibition - Urban land or green spaces
Anyone wishing to organise a trade fair, exhibition or market on private urban land or in a green area with market privileges requires a permit.
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 a licence in writing.
If green spaces are used, you require a special exemption licence. Please refer to the information on the page "Outdoor events on private land and urban green spaces".
Deadline:
The application should be made at least six weeks before the planned date.
Formal safety concept:
Under certain circumstances, you must draw up and agree a formal safety concept for your event.
Time limit:
The event may last a maximum of four weeks.
Special responsibilities:
- For the Munich weekly markets and the Magdalenenfest, your contact is the municipal department.
- For the Auer-Dulten and the Christmas market on Marienplatz, your contact is the Department of Labour and Economic Affairs (Tourism Office).
Required documents
- Fully completed form for the registration of trade fairs, markets, exhibitions (available for download)
- fully completed form for the authorisation of an event on municipal green spaces (available for download)
- Agreement on the use of the event area
- Type and wording of the public invitation to tender used to attract 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
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
Trade regulations, green space statutes
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung I Sicherheit und Ordnung, Prävention
Veranstaltungs- und Versammlungsbüro (VVB)
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Landeshauptstadt München
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung I Sicherheit und Ordnung, Prävention
Veranstaltungs- und Versammlungsbüro (VVB)
Ruppertstraße 19
80466 München
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80337 München