Unregulated businesses
There are two types of business activity in the Gewerbeordnung 1994, activities that require an entrepreneur to provide evidence of qualifications, and activities that do not. Business activities that do not require evidence of qualifications are called unregulated businesses (e.g. running a service station).
All businesses that are not classified expressly as regulated businesses in the Act are unregulated businesses.
Caution
In general, these rules also apply to entrepreneurs from EU Member States in Austria.
A list of unregulated commercial activities can be found on the website of the Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs.
Caution
This list contains a selection of unregulated businesses and does not claim to be complete.
Further links
National list of unregulated businesses (→ BMDW)German text
Legal basis
Gewerbeordnung 1994 (GewO 1994)
Responsible for the content: Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs
