About us

You have a business plan and would like to open a small business or a craft business, for example? Or would you like to have your foreign professional qualification recognised? We will be happy to accompany you and support you in your project.

The tasks of the single point of contact are the provision of information and the coordination of procedures. As a single point of contact for all questions about the areas of service and professional recognition, you can support the same partner for the following:

• Information on the necessary procedural steps for taking up or exercising your entrepreneurial project

• Information on required certificates, permits and permits

• Identifying the bodies responsible for them

• Communicating the contact to the competent authorities

• Coordination and mediation of the procedure between you and the competent authorities

• Overview of Chambers, registers and excerpts

• Formal examination of the completeness of incoming applications

• Transfer of applications to the competent authorities

• Process and deadline monitoring of online application submission

• Information on advisory services

In the following overview you will find all the procedures that can be handled by us:

At national level, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWI) is responsible for the implementation of the European Services Directive. The federal government's task is to coordinate the implementation of the directives in the 16 countries and to support the countries in matters that concern all. The federal States are responsible for implementing the concrete measures. This leads to the fact that different models exist in the crucial areas-as with the establishment of the single points of contact-depending on the federal state.

Here you get to the list of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWI) The single point of contact in Germany. If you would like to settle in a different federal state than North Rhine-Westphalia, you will find competent contact persons there.