# Finding and choosing a location
The perfect business location depends on a variety of factors including the specific industry, proximity to suppliers, and many other things. It is especially important for business founders to choose a suitable location. Here we have compiled services and information to help you find the ideal location for your business.
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A business registration is always necessary when you start a standing business. This is the case for
- New establishment of a business,
- New establishment of a branch office,
- New establishment of a dependent branch office,
- Takeover of an existing business, e.g. by purchase or lease,
- conversion of a sole proprietorship into another legal form,
- transfer of a business from the area of one authority to the area of another authority (considered as an abandonment by one authority and as a new establishment by the other authority).
The business registration must be carried out simultaneously with the start of the business.
- The obligation to notify exists only if it is a commercial activity. Excluded from the obligation to notify are the activities specified in § 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 GewO.
Excluded are, among others:
- Primary production (cattle breeding, agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing)
- Liberal professions (including lawyers, notaries, tax consultants, auditors, doctors, scientific, artistic and literary activities)
- Education of children for remuneration
- Education
The purpose of registering a trade is to enable the competent authority to monitor the exercise of the trade and to conduct statistical surveys.
Do you have cause for complaint after a train, bus or ship journey? Then you can contact the Federal Railway Authority (EBA).
If you wish to participate in aeronautical and aeronautical navigation radio, the BNetzA will assign you the callsign with the Aircraft Station Licence on application. In addition, you must notify changes, for example, the holder address or the radio technical equipment.
As a manufacturer or importer of cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, and hookah tobacco, you must print text image warnings on your cigarette and tobacco packaging. You can obtain the image files from the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety.
Wenn Sie als pharmazeutisches Unternehmen Lieferengpässe bestimmter Humanarzneimittel feststellen, sind Sie dazu verpflichtet, diese zu melden.
Wenn Sie als Hersteller von Medizinprodukten klinische Prüfungen durchführen möchten, müssen Sie dafür gegebenenfalls eine Genehmigung beim Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM) beantragen.