Additional information for notifying a vocational trade

Basic information

General and specific conditions for carrying on a trade, required particulars of submissions, administrative fees, statutory time limits.

Information on submissions

Who can make a submission, where and in what form the submission can be made, submission forms.

Procedure followed by the trade licensing office

Processing of submissions at the trade licensing office, resolution of defects in submissions, registration in the trade licensing register, what documents result from the processing of the submission.

Related procedures

There may be other acts towards the trade licensing office that are related to the notification of a trade – the application for a concession, notification of the commencement of a trade at an establishment, interruption of a trade, etc. Instructions for these acts are available in the relevant section of the Guide.

At the same time as submitting the notification of a trade, related submissions to other public administration authorities can be made at the trade licensing office within the Central Registration Point (CRP) (Sections 45a and 45b of the Trade Licensing Act).

To the competent social security authority, you can:

Notify the commencement of self-employment
Submit a registration for pension insurance
Submit a registration for sickness insurance

To the Labour Office, you can:

Notify the creation or filling of a vacancy

To the relevant health insurance company, you can:

Submit notifications under the Public Health Insurance Act

To the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic, you can:

Submit an application for the issue of a Czech national guide card in accordance with the Act regulating certain business conditions and the performance of certain activities in the field of tourism.

To the tax authority, you can make the following submissions electronically (in the format and structure specified by the Ministry of Industry and Trade) or orally in a protocol:

Submissions containing the information required in the application for registration for income tax
Submissions containing the information required in the application for registration for road tax
Submissions containing the information required in the notification of entry into the flat-rate income tax scheme

In all of the above cases, the CRP can also be used to notify changes in information, in the prescribed form, to the public administration authorities listed.