The facility of the Hesse Point of Single Contact is aimed at individuals and juristic persons in Germany and abroad.

For some procedures you currently can not use the online application - please appeal directly to the Point of Single Contact Hessen, preferably by e-mail. Your PSC will inform you about the necessary documents of your procedure and supports you during the application process. These procedures are:

Sewage Control Regulation

Recognition of investigation authorities for sewage

General federal mining legislation

Recognition of experts according to § 23 a

End-of-life vehicle Regulation

Certificate of compliance of requirements, mentioned in para. 2 S. 1 by an expert according to § 6 No. 3

Waste Wood Regulation

Publication of investigation/examination authorities

German Foreign Trade Ordinance

Authorisation of technical assistance in connection with construction or operation of nuclear installations

Construction products and construction types Regulation

Certificate of competence and experience to a recognized investigation/examination authority

Professional Qualifications Act

Assessment of equivalence of federally regulated professions according to § 13

Biological Waste Regulation

Determination of an investigative body

Chemicals Climate Protection Regulation

Granting of a certificate of competence

Exemption from requirement of a training in a technical or skilled trade

Chemicals Act

Application for granting of a certificate on compliance of principles of good laboratory practises

De-Mail-law

All administrative procedures according to this law

Heritage Protection law

Permission according § 18

Landfill Regulation

Determination of an expert

eIDAS Implementing law

All administrative procedures according to this law

Introductory Act to the Insolvency Act

Admission to the pre-selection list of insolvency administrators, led by the insolvency court

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act

Certification of an expert from another Member State according to § 21 para. 3

German Energy Act

Permission to commence operations of an energy supply network

German Equipment and Product Safety Act

Permission for a conformity assessment body to may work as a (German: GS) institution for a specified area

Law on Protection against non-ionising radiation for human use

Application for publication of the institution that is entitled pursuant to § 6 para. 2 No. 1 for inspection of a system

Law on development of household separate collection of waste containing valuable materials

Registration as an expert according to § 3 para. 15

Law on revision of legal metrology

Admission of conformity assessment bodies

Commercial Waste Regulation

Publication of an institution responsible for external quality surveillance according to § 11 para. 4

Hessian Implementation Regulation to the Plant Protection Act

Recognition of control subjects according to § 4

Hessian Law of execution to the Bundesnaturschutzgesetz (BNatSchG)

Permission pursuant to § 39 para. 4 S. 1 for the commercial removing, processing or treating of wild flora

Hessian Law on the public health service

Application for state recognition as a training institution

Hessian Regulation for authorised inspectors

All procedures according to this Regulation

Hessian Regulation on experts for soil conservation and contamination

Recognition as an expert

Engineers Act

All administrative procedures according to this law

Chamber of Engineers Act

All administrative procedures according to this law

Sewage Sludge Regulation

Determination of an inspection body

Compensation Regulation

Recognition as an agency

Mine surveyor Act

Recognition as mine surveyor

German Weights and Measures Act

Recognition of conformity assessment bodies according to § 13

Milk quality implementing Regulation

Admission as an investigating body

German: Nachweisberechtigtenverordnung NBVO

All procedures according to this Regulation

Law on Patent Agents

Dealing with administrative procedures according to this law

Product Safety Act

Granting of competency to act as a (German: GS) institution

Prostitutes Protection Act

Permission according to § 12

Pipeline Provision

Recognition as an inspection body

Explosive Act / 1. and 2. Ordinance on explosives

EC type examination of civil explosives in accordance with EC-Directive 93/15/EC as well as pyrotechnic articles in accordance with EC-Directive 2007/23/EC

Bearing group assignment of explosives and objects with explosives (including pyrotechnic articles)

Surveillance of quality assurance systems of explosives manufacturer in accordance with EC-Directive 93/15/EEC and pyrotechnic articles in accordance with EC-Directive 2007/23/EC

Transfer approval for intra-community transport of civil explosives and ammunition

Allocation of an identification number as a proof of notification for first-time use of explosives within the area of the Explosive Act

Approvals and exemptions for blasting equipment

Tax consulting law

Administrative proceedings of public and profession-related matters, that are regulated in Part I, the section 2 and 6 of Part II and the first section of Part III of this law.

Animal Welfare Act

All administrative procedures according to this law

Regulation of installations for the handling of substances hazardous to water

Recognition of expert bodies acccording to § 52

Regulation of national emblems of the Federal State of Hessen

Manufacturing and obtaining of the national emblem

Regulation on substances that damage the ozone layer (Ozone Layer Chemicals Order)

Exemption from necessary training

Regulation for development of surveillance of waste material subject to legal provisions

Approval for collectors, carrier, traders and brokers of hazardous waste

Assessment of equivalence of approvals of another EU Member State or another Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area

Regulation for reorganisation of sludge recycling

Notification procedure of an inspection body according to § 33

Packaging Regulation

Certificate of competence

Below are a few examples of the activities and sectors that fall within the field of application of the Services Directive. The list is not exhaustive.

• Business registrations, business changes, business de-registrations (business notifications),
• Freelance services (e.g. lawyers, architects, engineers, veterinary surgeons),
• Craftsmen/women (e.g. carpenters, installers, picture framers, repair and maintenance services),
• Services with reference to businesses (such as the maintenance of office space, management consultancy, events organisers, the recovery of claims, advertising and employment agencies),
• Knowledge-based services for companies (e.g. business consultancy, advertising, certification, tests, training),
• Trade (including the retailing and wholesaling of goods and services, e.g. supermarkets and other commercial enterprises, trade fairs and itinerant trading) ,
• Services in the field of tourism and leisure (e.g. restaurants, bars, travel agencies, hotels, amusement parks),
• Services in the leisure area (such as fitness studios, spas),
• Services in the construction industry (e.g. construction companies, insulation work),
• Services associated with industry (e.g. the installation and maintenance of machines, industrial cleaning),
• Information services (such as web portals, news agencies, publishing and computer programming),
• Hotel and hospitality services (such as hotels, restaurants, catering services),
• Services in the field of training and education (e.g. private schools and universities, language schools),
• Rental (including vehicle rental) and leasing services,
• Property services (e.g. property agents, auctions, conveyancing),
• Certification and testing activities,
• Household-support services (such as cleaning services, private childcare and gardening services),
• Social services by private suppliers (e.g. childcare, care for the elderly, household help),
• Services associated with the protection of intellectual property (e.g. the administration of intellectual property rights through collecting societies, the services of patent lawyers) ,
• Services associated with agriculture and forestry (e.g. activities to support agricultural cultivation, such as pest control and harvesting services, activities associated with harvesting, veterinary surgeons and biological laboratories) ,
• Cultural services (e.g. private museums and libraries, theatres, concerts, the organisation of open-air events),
• Services associated with health (e.g. the supply and maintenance of medical equipment or laboratories working for hospitals),
• Services associated with the transport sector, but not transport services directly (e.g. car rental, removal services, driving schools, aerial photography, the organization of bus excursions, etc.).

This Directive does not apply to the following activities in particular (see also Articles 2 and 3 EC Services Directive):

• Non-commercial services in the general interest;
• Financial services, such as bank services and services associated with the granting of credit, insurance and reinsurance, commercial or individual care for the elderly, securities, financial investments, payments, investment advice, including the services listed in Annex I of the Directive 2006/48/EC;
• Electronic communication services and networks, as well as associated facilities and services in the fields regulated under Directives 2002/19/EC, 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC, 2002/22/EC and 2002/58/EC;
• Transport services, including harbour services that fall under the field of application of Title V of the Treaty;
• Services of agencies dealing with subcontracted work;
• Health services, irrespective of whether they are carried out by health-care facilities and irrespective of whether they are they are organised and financed at a national level, or whether these are public or private services;
• aAudio-visual services, including the area of cinema and film, irrespective of their type of production, circulation or transmission, and radio;
• Games of chance that require a financial stake, including lotteries, games of chance in casinos and bets;
• Activities associated with the exercising of public authority in the sense of Article 45 of the Treaty
• Social services associated with social housing, child-care and the support of families and persons permanently or temporarily in need of help, which are carried out by the state, by service providers commissioned by the state or by facilities recognised by the state as being of benefit to the public;
• Private security services;
• Activities of notaries and bailiffs appointed by state offices, if the provisions of another act under Community law regulate specific aspects of the assumption and exercise of a service activity (in particular Directive 96/71/EC, Ordinance (EEC) No. 1408/71, Directive 89/552/EEC of the Council dated 3 October 1989 on the coordination of particular legal and administrative regulations of member states' provisions on television broadcasting, Directive 2005/36/EC).

More information can be found in the handbook on the EU Services Directive.