The Handicrafts Register is the list of trades that can be operated as crafts subject to licensing (Annex A to the Handicrafts Code). Only natural persons, legal entities and partnerships entered in the Handicrafts Register are permitted to independently operate a craft subject to licensing as a standing trade. Registration in the Handicrafts Register is thus the operating permit for the operation of a craft subject to licensing.
In order to be registered in the register of skilled crafts, an application must be submitted and the legally required qualifications must be proven (leaflet on registration in the register of skilled crafts subject to licensing - Handwerksrolle - of Annex A to the Crafts Code). The Chamber of Crafts issues a crafts card as a certificate of registration in the register of crafts. The registration is subject to a fee.