Registering a free trade licence

What this depends on

You'll need to know this about your plan

• Do you have full legal capacity?For a minor this can be replaced by court approval of the legal guardian's consent to independent business activity.
• Do you have a clean record?The second of the two general conditions. The trade licensing office obtains the criminal record extract itself.
• Do you already hold any trade licence?This decides the amount of the administrative fee: a first entry into business is charged differently from a further notification.

Possible outcomes

How this can turn out

• A notification is enough

  You meet the general conditions. You notify the trade licensing office of the free trade, and it issues you an extract within 5 business days.

  Trade licensing officeCZK 1,000Entry within 5 business days of the notification being delivered
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • No, I'm starting out
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• A notification is enough

  You meet the conditions and already run a business, so this is a further trade notification, and the fee is half as much.

  Trade licensing officeCZK 500Entry within 5 business days of the notification being delivered
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • Yes, I already run a business
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• Conditions not yet met

  A trade licence rests on two general conditions: full legal capacity and a clean record. Until you meet both, you won't get the licence.

  Trade licensing office
  • Yes
  • No
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Where this comes from

Primary sources, not a paraphrase