You must report any changes that affect at least one of the following:
- The nature and object of the business
- your activity
- the shareholding structure, or
- the legal form of your company.
More Information
Publisher
Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS)
Last update or date of publication
Contact
The government service telephone number 115 – your point of contact for questions related to the federal, state and local.
Monday through Friday from 8:00 to 18:00 (and beyond these times in some regions).
Call 115 nowGovernment service telephone number calls are charged at local rates.
if necessary:
- Commercial register excerpt
- List of shareholders
- Articles of association
- Trade registration
Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No
Online services available: Yes
Preconditions
There are or have been changes in your company or in your self-employed or freelance activity which
- may be of significance for the examination of the responsibility of the employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund,
- affect the requirements for assignment to the hazard classes,
- concern other bases for the calculation of contributions.
Examples:
- Activities have been added or dropped.
- There is a change in one or more entrepreneurs.
- There is a change in one or more authorized representatives.
- There is a change in the legal form.
Hints
There are no clues or specifics.
There are no costs involved.
Basis for legal action
Legal Remedies
- Appeal
- Detailed information on how to lodge an appeal can be found in the notification from your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
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Procedure
You can complete the notification online or by mail.
Online service:
- Access the online service.
- You will be guided through the procedure on the service portal of the accident insurance.
- You can register.
- If you would like to receive the response from your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund in the mailbox of your BundID account or My Company Account, you must have an account and authenticate yourself.
- If you would like to receive the answer by mail, you can also proceed without logging in.
- Select your responsible employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund or determine it using the industry search.
- Upload the required documents.
- Fill out the online form and submit it.
- Your report will automatically be forwarded to your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund.
- You will receive a response by the requested method.
Online service Your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund:
- If you have access to the portal of your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund, you can also submit the notification electronically there, if necessary.
Message by mail:
- Contact your employers' liability insurance association or accident insurance fund with an informal letter.
- Make sure to include required information and enclose the necessary documents.
Deadlines
Application deadline
4 weeks
Changes or termination must be notified within four 4 weeks.
Processing time
1 week until 2 weeks