Chartered engineering consultants (EU/EEA countries/Switzerland) - Establishment

• Request: The competent Chamber of Civil Engineers (→ zt)^{German text} where the requesting party's office and/or branch office is to be located;
• Decision: Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy (→ BMAW)^{German text}.

• Request:
  • EUR 47.30 federal fee
  • attachment: EUR 3.90 per sheet
• Official decision:
  • EUR 83.60 federal fee
  • EUR 98 federal administrative levy
    

No special deadlines need to be observed.

Engineering consultant branch (→ zt)^{German text}

Nationals from the EU, the EEA or the Swiss Confederation may be licensed to work as chartered engineering consultants under the right of establishment.

Sections 4, 10, 32 paragraph 4 of the Ziviltechnikergesetz (ZTG)

The request may be submitted personally, in writing or by e-mail to the competent authority.

• Proof of nationality;
• Certificate of qualification of the home member state which entitles the party concerned to take up work as a free-lance chartered engineering consultant;
• Certificates of the competent authority of the home member state (no more than three months old) stating that the requesting party
  • is reliable;
  • has not been declared bankrupt;
  • complies with the code of conduct of his/her profession.

Equivalence of the indicated professional training to qualify for work under the Ziviltechnikergesetz 2019 (ZTG 2019), as well as absence of grounds for disqualification such as: lack of legal capacity, salaried employment in the public sector, bankruptcy or lack of reliability.