# Trade fairs, street festivals and special events
Are you planning an event – for example, one involving aviation or gambling? Do you operate an entertainment business or do you work in an itinerant trade? Here you will find government services and information about planning and authorisations for events.
To ServicesInformation about Rights & Duties
- Acquiring licences, authorisations or permits with a view to starting and operating a business
- Commercial practices, including consumer rights and guarantees when selling goods and services
- Health and safety obligations in relation to different types of activity, including risk prevention, information and training
- Social security rights and obligations in the EU
- Terms and conditions of employment
You may apply for a new social security card if you have lost your card, damaged it, or if it is no longer readable.
Are you temporarily sending staff abroad? To prove that German social security law continues to apply, you can apply for an A1 certificate for your employees.
Do you have cause for complaint after a train, bus or ship journey? Then you can contact the Federal Railway Authority (EBA).
If you are working or employed in the food sector for the first time, you will need a certificate from the public health department confirming that you have been instructed in infection control.
If your employees or the BA require a certificate of employment, you must send this to the BA. The same applies to a secondary income certificate if employees or persons working for you on a self-employed basis have applied for or are receiving current cash benefits.
Your company is engaged in the commercial transport of goods or passengers and you need a company card for the first time? Then you must apply for this card at the competent office.