Licensed trade business, across 2 jurisdictions
What is published about this occupation wherever the index has looked, best grade first.
Where it is regulated
| Jurisdiction | Authority | Public page | Bulk export | Machine readable | Signed | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT | Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus | Yes | No | Interface | No | D |
| DE | Handwerkskammern | No | No | No | No | E |
What was found
The best equipped grade D in the index, and the direct answer to Germany one border away. Austria replaced fourteen separate provincial trade registers with one national system in March 2015, gave every trade licence a GISA number, and wrote free public access into the trade statute itself, so the query is open to anyone without a login and without a stated reason. For sole traders outside the company register it is the only authentic source there is.
Germany registers more of its tradespeople than almost anywhere and lets the public check almost none of them. Every business in a licensed or licence-free trade is a compulsory member of its regional chamber and entered in the Handwerksrolle, and running a licensed trade without that entry is punishable by a fine or a trade prohibition. There is no single national lookup, because each of the regional chambers keeps its own.