Registry entry

Austria Trade Licence Registration (Gewerbeanmeldung) — GewO 1994 §§ 13, 14, 39, 339-348

Austria's trade-licence registration (Gewerbeanmeldung) under the federal Gewerbeordnung 1994 (GewO, Trade Licence Act): the filing by which a natural person or a business entity (company, association, agricultural business, or other legal form) notifies the locally competent trade authority (Gewerbebehörde — the Bezirkshauptmannschaft, or in a statutory city the Magistrat) that it will exercise a given trade at a given premises, and, where required, appoints a trade-law-responsible managing director (gewerberechtliche Geschäftsführung) to carry the trade's professional-qualification requirement. This document is modelled from the current edition of Land Oberösterreich's own fillable PDF implementation of the form (LWLD-Wi/E-8, 'Gewerbeanmeldung', Stand: Juli 2021, current as of this session's retrieval and the sole edition still linked from the Land's own 'Gewerbeausübung' forms index), which routes to one of the 17 district trade authorities within Upper Austria; a filer in a different Bundesland uses that Land's own edition of the same nationally-legislated process, not modelled here. Deliberately excludes: the exhaustive, largely circumstance-specific attachments checklist beyond the core identity/qualification/declaration documents modelled (e.g. EEA/third-country residence titles, insurance-intermediation-specific proofs, foreign-registration particulars); the separate online GISA-Express e-service and ID Austria electronic-authentication channel; and any subsequent trade-law procedure (business-premises licensing/Betriebsanlagengenehmigung, appeal to the Landesverwaltungsgericht). GovSchema is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Republic of Austria, the Province of Upper Austria, or any Austrian trade authority.

Registry entry

at/gewerbebehoerde/trade-licence-registration

Jurisdiction
Austria · national
Version
1.0.0
Verification
draft
Authority
Gewerbebehörde (the locally competent Bezirkshauptmannschaft or, in a statutory city, Magistrat), applying the federal Gewerbeordnung 1994 under the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus (BMWET); this document's own source PDF is published by Land Oberösterreich (Amt der Oö. Landesregierung) for its 17 district authorities

Authoritative source LWLD-Wi/E-8 — 'Gewerbeanmeldung' (Stand: Juli 2021), Land Oberösterreich's current fillable-AcroForm edition of the nationally-legislated Gewerbeanmeldung under GewO 1994 §§ 13, 14, 39 Abs. 2, 333a, 339-348, 363; cross-checked against the federal Unternehmensserviceportal's own process explainer at usp.gv.at (last updated 20 March 2026 per that page's own footer)

Machine access

Schema document
registry/at/gewerbebehoerde/trade-licence-registration/1.0.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Verification record
registry/at/gewerbebehoerde/trade-licence-registration/1.0.0/VERIFICATION.mdtext/markdown
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

86 fields, read from the published schema.json, with names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Fields

  • competentAuthority enum required

    The district administrative authority or Magistrat, within Upper Austria, that is locally competent for the trade's premises location and to which this form's addressee stamp box routes the filing. Austria's Gewerbeordnung assigns first-instance competence to 'die Gewerbebehörde, die für den Gewerbestandort örtlich zuständig ist' (the Bezirkshauptmannschaft, or in statutory cities the Magistrat); this enumerated list reflects the 17 authorities the source PDF's own dropdown offers for Upper Austria specifically. A filer whose trade premises sit in a different Bundesland selects the equivalent authority of that Land instead — not modelled here, since the source PDF is Upper-Austria-specific (see VERIFICATION.md).

    enum: 17 values
  • applicantCategory enum required

    Selects which of the form's two mutually exclusive applicant branches applies: a natural person filing personally (Section 1), or a business entity filing as the trade's holder (Section 2), where the entity's own kind is one of the source's four 'Unternehmensart' options. The form itself instructs a non-natural-person filer to skip Section 1 and proceed to Section 2 instead. This field is a GovSchema-added top-level selector synthesizing that branch choice; it is not itself a single checkbox on the source form (see VERIFICATION.md).

    enum: natural_person | business_entity | association | agricultural_business | other
  • naturalPersonFirstName string optional

    Applicant — first name

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • naturalPersonLastName string optional

    Applicant — last name / surname

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • naturalPersonTitle string optional

    Applicant — academic/professional title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • naturalPersonSuffixTitle string optional

    Applicant — post-nominal title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • naturalPersonFormerLastNames string optional

    Applicant — former surname(s)

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • naturalPersonGender enum optional

    The source offers three options, including an explicit opt-out.

    enum: male | female | unspecifiedclassification: pii
  • naturalPersonSocialSecurityNumber string optional

    Format given by the source as '(Format 1234TTMMJJ)' (a 4-digit sequence number followed by the holder's date of birth as DDMMYY). Left blank by applicants without an Austrian social insurance number.

    patternclassification: pii
  • naturalPersonCitizenship string optional

    Applicant — citizenship

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • naturalPersonBirthPlace string optional

    Applicant — place of birth

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • naturalPersonEmail string optional

    Applicant — email

    length: 0–254classification: pii
  • naturalPersonPhone string optional

    Applicant — telephone

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • naturalPersonMobile string optional

    Applicant — mobile phone

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • naturalPersonAddressStreet string optional

    Applicant — residence street

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • naturalPersonAddressHouseNumber string optional

    Applicant — residence house number

    length: 1–20classification: pii
  • naturalPersonAddressPostalCode string optional

    Applicant — residence postal code

    patternclassification: pii
  • naturalPersonAddressCity string optional

    Applicant — residence city/town

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • naturalPersonMainResidenceFiveYears boolean optional

    Applicant — main residence in Austria for at least 5 years?

  • naturalPersonCommercialRegisterStatus enum optional

    Applicant — Commercial Register (Firmenbuch) entry status

    enum: not_planned | in_preparation | already_completed
  • naturalPersonCommercialRegisterName string optional

    Applicant — registered company wording (Firmenwortlaut)

    length: 0–300
  • naturalPersonCommercialRegisterNumber string optional

    Applicant — Commercial Register number (Firmenbuch-Nr.)

    length: 0–50
  • entityName string optional

    Entity — registered name / designation

    length: 1–300
  • entityLegalForm string optional

    Entity — legal form

    length: 1–100
  • entityRegisterNumber string optional

    Firmenbuchnummer for a company, Vereinsregisternummer for an association, Betriebsnummer for an agricultural business, or Registernummer for another entity kind, per the source's own parenthetical.

    length: 0–50
  • entityEmail string optional

    Entity — email

    length: 0–254
  • entityPhone string optional

    Entity — telephone

    length: 0–50
  • entityMobile string optional

    Entity — mobile phone

    length: 0–50
  • entityAddressStreet string optional

    Entity — registered address street

    length: 1–200
  • entityAddressHouseNumber string optional

    Entity — registered address house number

    length: 1–20
  • entityAddressPostalCode string optional

    Entity — registered address postal code

    pattern
  • entityAddressCity string optional

    Entity — registered address city/town

    length: 1–200
  • entityRepresentativeFirstName string optional

    Entity — authorized representative first name

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • entityRepresentativeLastName string optional

    Entity — authorized representative last name

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • entityRepresentativeTitle string optional

    Entity — authorized representative title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • entityRepresentativeSuffixTitle string optional

    Entity — authorized representative post-nominal title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • entityRepresentativeSocialSecurityNumber string optional

    Entity — authorized representative Austrian social security number

    patternclassification: pii
  • tradeDescription string required

    For a catering/hospitality trade (Gastgewerbe), also states the type of establishment (Betriebsart).

    length: 1–2000
  • isIndustrialOperation boolean required

    Is this registration for exercise as an industrial operation?

  • tradeCategory enum required

    Trade category

    enum: regulated_or_partial | unrestricted
  • earliestEffectiveDate date optional

    Registration should take effect no earlier than (if desired)

  • premisesAddressStreet string required

    Trade premises — street

    length: 1–200
  • premisesAddressHouseNumber string required

    Trade premises — house number

    length: 1–20
  • premisesAddressPostalCode string required

    Trade premises — postal code

    pattern
  • premisesAddressCity string required

    Trade premises — city/town

    length: 1–200
  • premisesLocationDescription string optional

    Used when a street name or house number cannot be given for the premises location.

    length: 0–1000
  • managingDirectorBasis enum optional

    Left unanswered when no separate trade-law-responsible managing director is appointed (the applicant itself holds the required capability proof and, for a natural person, an Austrian/EEA/Swiss domicile). A legal entity or registered partnership must always appoint one unless an EEA/Swiss-domiciled natural person represents it directly.

    enum: employee | authorized_representative
  • managingDirectorFirstName string optional

    Managing director — first name

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • managingDirectorLastName string optional

    Managing director — last name / surname

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • managingDirectorTitle string optional

    Managing director — academic/professional title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • managingDirectorSuffixTitle string optional

    Managing director — post-nominal title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • managingDirectorFormerLastNames string optional

    Managing director — former surname(s)

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • managingDirectorGender enum optional

    Managing director — gender

    enum: male | female | unspecifiedclassification: pii
  • managingDirectorSocialSecurityNumber string optional

    Managing director — Austrian social security number

    patternclassification: pii
  • managingDirectorCitizenship string optional

    Managing director — citizenship

    length: 1–100classification: pii
  • managingDirectorBirthPlace string optional

    Managing director — place of birth

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • managingDirectorEmployerAccountNumber string optional

    Managing director — employer account number (Dienstgebernummer)

    length: 0–50
  • managingDirectorEmail string optional

    Managing director — email

    length: 0–254classification: pii
  • managingDirectorPhone string optional

    Managing director — telephone

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • managingDirectorMobile string optional

    Managing director — mobile phone

    length: 0–50classification: pii
  • managingDirectorAddressStreet string optional

    Managing director — residence street

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • managingDirectorAddressHouseNumber string optional

    Managing director — residence house number

    length: 1–20classification: pii
  • managingDirectorAddressPostalCode string optional

    Managing director — residence postal code

    patternclassification: pii
  • managingDirectorAddressCity string optional

    Managing director — residence city/town

    length: 1–200classification: pii
  • managingDirectorMainResidenceFiveYears boolean optional

    Managing director — main residence in Austria for at least 5 years?

  • remarks string optional

    Remarks on this trade registration

    length: 0–3000
  • applicationSignaturePlace string required

    Signature — place

    length: 1–100
  • applicationSignatureDate date required

    Signature — date

  • managingDirectorWeeklyHours number optional

    Only printed for a company/entity applicant appointing a managing director, not for a natural-person applicant's own managing director appointment.

    range: 0–168
  • managingDirectorDeclarationPlace string optional

    § 39 Abs. 2 GewO 1994 declaration — place

    length: 1–100
  • managingDirectorDeclarationDate date optional

    § 39 Abs. 2 GewO 1994 declaration — date

  • influentialPersonFirstName string optional

    The source provides exactly one such row, captioned 'nur auszufüllen für Unternehmen' (only to be completed for businesses); an entity with more than one person of material influence (e.g. multiple controlling shareholders) is not fully representable on this paper form (see VERIFICATION.md). Not required outright because whether a distinct person of material influence exists (beyond the Section 2.4 representative already captured) depends on the entity's ownership structure, which this form does not itself disclose.

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • influentialPersonLastName string optional

    Person with material influence — last name / surname

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • influentialPersonTitle string optional

    Person with material influence — title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • influentialPersonSuffixTitle string optional

    Person with material influence — post-nominal title

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • influentialPersonFormerLastNames string optional

    Person with material influence — former surname(s)

    length: 0–300classification: pii
  • influentialPersonGender enum optional

    Person with material influence — gender

    enum: male | female | unspecifiedclassification: pii
  • influentialPersonSocialSecurityNumber string optional

    Person with material influence — Austrian social security number

    patternclassification: pii
  • influentialPersonCitizenship string optional

    Person with material influence — citizenship

    length: 0–100classification: pii
  • influentialPersonBirthPlace string optional

    Person with material influence — place of birth

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • influentialPersonAddressStreet string optional

    Person with material influence — street

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • influentialPersonAddressHouseNumber string optional

    Person with material influence — house number

    length: 0–20classification: pii
  • influentialPersonAddressPostalCode string optional

    Person with material influence — postal code

    patternclassification: pii
  • influentialPersonAddressCity string optional

    Person with material influence — city/town

    length: 0–200classification: pii
  • materialInfluenceDeclarationPlace string required

    § 13 GewO 1994 declaration — place

    length: 1–100
  • materialInfluenceDeclarationDate date required

    § 13 GewO 1994 declaration — date

Verification record

Candidate selection

Austria was the task brief's first-choice candidate. A prior cycle (documented in CATALOG.md's Known Gaps section) had tried a regional Austrian host, tirol.gv.at, and hit a TCP-level connection timeout/reset — explicitly flagged there as a network/host-specific issue, not a confirmed bot block or dead end, alongside a same-session failure to reach skatteverket.se. This session re-tried Austria against federal hosts instead, per the brief's suggestion:

| Host | Result | |---|---| | usp.gv.at (Unternehmensserviceportal) | HTTP 200, reachable | | help.gv.at | HTTP 301 → redirects to oesterreich.gv.at (merged), reachable | | oesterreich.gv.at | HTTP 307 → /de, then HTTP 200, reachable | | bmaw.gv.at (Ministry for business/economy) | Unreachable — curl exit code 6/HTTP 000 on three separate attempts, consistent with the earlier tirol.gv.at symptom (a real host-level networking problem in this research environment, not a WAF/CAPTCHA gate) | | land-oberoesterreich.gv.at (Land Oberösterreich, a regional host, screened once usp.gv.at's own explainer page pointed at Land-published PDF forms) | HTTP 200, reachable |

usp.gv.at and oesterreich.gv.at being reachable (while bmaw.gv.at timed out exactly like tirol.gv.at did previously) confirms the prior cycle's own read: this is a narrow, host-specific network gap in the research environment, not a blanket block on Austrian government hosts.

Source

  • Primary (the fillable form): https://www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/Mediendateien/Formulare/Formulare%20Wirtschaft%20und%20Tourismus/LWLD_Wi_E8_Gewerbeanmeldung.pdf — form LWLD-Wi/E-8, "Gewerbeanmeldung" ("Stand: Juli 2021" per its own footer), a genuine fillable AcroForm PDF (HTTP 200, 476,128 bytes at this session's retrieval; PDF header confirmed as %PDF-1.6, not an HTML error page or a scanned image).
  • Confirmed current edition, not a stale/superseded specimen: Land Oberösterreich's own "Gewerbeausübung" forms index, https://www.land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/27740.htm (HTTP 200), lists only this LWLD-Wi/E-8 PDF under "Gewerbeanmeldung" — <strong>Gewerbeanmeldung</strong> <strong class="text-grau">(LWLD-Wi/E-8)</strong> linking directly to the same URL. An older sibling form, LWLD-Wi/E-7 ("Gewerbeanmeldung Natürliche Person", "Stand: November 2018"), is still reachable by direct URL but is not linked from this current index page — this document deliberately models the current E-8 edition, not the superseded E-7 edition (E-8 additionally covers business-entity applicants that E-7 does not).
  • Federal corroboration (process description, legal basis, fees, competent-authority routing): https://www.usp.gv.at/gruendung/EAP/gewerbeanmeldung.html (HTTP 200) — Austria's federal Unternehmensserviceportal (USP), the same portal named as a candidate in the task brief. Its own footer states "Letzte Aktualisierung: 20. März 2026" and "Für den Inhalt verantwortlich: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus" (content responsibility: the federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism, BMWET) — i.e. this is genuinely federal-government-owned content, current as of five months before this session.

Both URLs were re-fetched live immediately before this record was written (see "Pre-PR re-verification" below) and via node tools/verify-sources.mjs.

Why a Land-published PDF, not a single federal PDF

Austria's trade-licence registration is legislated federally (Gewerbeordnung 1994, GewO) but administered by whichever district authority is locally competent for the trade's premises — the USP page states this plainly: "Zuständige Stelle ... Die Gewerbebehörde, die für den Gewerbestandort örtlich zuständig ist: Die Bezirkshauptmannschaft [i]n Statutarstädten: der Magistrat". There is no single centrally-published fillable PDF; each Land publishes and hosts its own edition of the same nationally-legislated process, addressed to its own set of district authorities. This is the same registry pattern already established for de/gewerbeamt/business-registration (sourced from Hamburg's own edition of Germany's nationally-standardized GewA 1 form, cross-checked against two further Länder editions) and is applied here analogously: this document is scoped to Land Oberösterreich's edition and its 17 district authorities (competentAuthority enum); a filer whose premises sit in a different Bundesland would use that Land's own edition of the same underlying GewO process — not modelled in this version.

Unlike the German precedent, no second or third Land's edition of this exact PDF was cross-checked field-by-field this session (time-boxed to one session); the federal USP explainer page instead serves as the process-level corroboration (legal basis, fee-free filing, competent- authority routing, procedural steps) that this document's structure and statutory citations are describing the same nationally-uniform process, not an Upper-Austria-specific quirk. A future cycle cross-checking a second Land's own LWLD/-equivalent PDF (e.g. Vienna's or Vorarlberg's own edition) would strengthen this to the same multi-edition-cross-check standard as the German schema.

Extraction technique

The PDF's AcroForm layer was extracted with pdfjs-dist (legacy/build/pdf.mjs), calling page.getAnnotations({ intent: "display" }) per page to enumerate every Widget annotation (name, field type, rect, radio/checkbox flags, Ch dropdown options) and page.getTextContent() to extract the surrounding prose (section headings, instructions, the Beilagen/attachments checklist, and the two declaration texts) for cross-reference.

  • 101 total AcroForm widgets across the PDF's 8 pages (27, 30, 22, 0, 4, 3, 15, 0 per page respectively).
  • 5 are non-data controls, excluded from the field model: a help popup ("Hinweise zur Nutzung von PDF-Formularen"), a convenience "copy address" button ("Adresse übernehmen") and its associated scratch text field ("Adresse", a free-text box the button copies into the structured Straße/Nummer/PLZ/Ort fields — not itself part of the submitted data), and two form-utility buttons ("Formular zurücksetzen 2", "Formular drucken 2").
  • The remaining 96 real data widgets map onto this document's 86 fields. The gap is fully accounted for by 10 places where 2-4 widgets sharing one PDF field name make up a single radio-button or checkbox group; each such group was modelled as one enum or boolean field (never as independent unconstrained booleans — the mismodeling this registry has been burned by before, e.g. GOV-1070's SE work-permit radio group). The 10 groups: 1.3/4.4 "Hauptwohnsitz seit 5 Jahren" (2 widgets → 1 boolean each, ×2 = saves 2), 1.4 Firmenbucheintrag (3 widgets → 1 enum, saves 2), 2.1 Unternehmensart (4 widgets → folded into the top-level applicantCategory enum alongside the implicit natural-person branch, saves 3), 3.2 Industriebetrieb (2 widgets → 1 boolean, saves 1), 3.3 Gewerbeart (2 widgets → 1 enum, saves 1), 4.1 Geschäftsführung-Bestellung (2 widgets → 1 enum, saves 1). Total savings: 10, so 96 − 10 = 86. This arithmetic was checked mechanically (a Python build script asserts len(fields) == 86 against the actual widget dump, not asserted from memory).
  • Three Ch (dropdown/choice) widgets carry an explicit options array in the extraction output: Auswahl Bezirksverwaltungsbehörde (17 named district authorities, modelled as competentAuthority) and the three Geschlecht (gender) dropdowns on pages 1, 3, and 7 (each offering 'männlich' / 'weiblich' / 'keine Angabe' — modelled as naturalPersonGender / managingDirectorGender / influentialPersonGender, each enum: [male, female, unspecified]).

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Page 1 dropdown, addressee stamp | competentAuthority | | Section 1 heading + branch instruction, Section 2.1 Unternehmensart | applicantCategory | | 1.1 Persönliche Daten | naturalPersonFirstName … naturalPersonBirthPlace (9 fields) | | 1.2 Kontaktdaten | naturalPersonEmail, naturalPersonPhone, naturalPersonMobile | | 1.3 Wohnsitz | naturalPersonAddressStreet … naturalPersonMainResidenceFiveYears (5 fields) | | 1.4 Firmenbucheintrag | naturalPersonCommercialRegisterStatus, naturalPersonCommercialRegisterName, naturalPersonCommercialRegisterNumber | | 2.1 Unternehmensdaten | entityName, entityLegalForm, entityRegisterNumber | | 2.2 Kontaktdaten | entityEmail, entityPhone, entityMobile | | 2.3 Standort | entityAddressStreet … entityAddressCity (4 fields) | | 2.4 Vertretungsbefugtes Organ | entityRepresentativeFirstName … entityRepresentativeSocialSecurityNumber (5 fields) | | 3.1-3.4 Angaben zum Gewerbe | tradeDescription, isIndustrialOperation, tradeCategory, earliestEffectiveDate, premisesAddressStreet … premisesLocationDescription (9 fields) | | 4.1 Bestellung | managingDirectorBasis | | 4.2-4.4 Geschäftsführung Persönliche/Kontakt/Wohnsitz-Daten | managingDirectorFirstName … managingDirectorMainResidenceFiveYears (18 fields) | | 5. Anmerkungen | remarks | | Page 5 signature block | applicationSignaturePlace, applicationSignatureDate | | Anhang 1 bullet 9 + signature block | managingDirectorWeeklyHours, managingDirectorDeclarationPlace, managingDirectorDeclarationDate | | Anhang 1 bullets 1-8 | documents[].managingDirectorDeclarationSection39 (attestation) | | Anhang 2 "Angaben zur Person mit maßgeblichem Einfluss" + signature block | influentialPersonFirstName … materialInfluenceDeclarationDate (15 fields) | | Anhang 2 bullets 1-8 | documents[].declarationOfNoExclusionGrounds (attestation) | | Page 4/5 Beilagen checklist, items 1, 2, 15 | documents[].applicantIdentityDocument, capabilityProof, managingDirectorIdentityDocument | | usp.gv.at "Rechtsgrundlagen" | §§ 13, 39, 333a, 339-348 GewO 1994 cited in title/description/source.documentRef | | usp.gv.at "Kosten" | "Es sind keine Stempelgebühren und Bundesverwaltungsabgaben zu entrichten" — no payment document modelled, disclosed below |

Every sourceRef on every field cites the exact widget field name printed in the extraction dump (e.g. "1.1 Vorname", "4.2 Dienstgebernummer"), which is itself the PDF's own internal field identifier — the strongest form of source fidelity available for an AcroForm, short of a screenshot.

Quoted phrases — verbatim cross-check

Every phrase this record or schema.json places in quotation marks was grepped against the raw pdfjs-dist text extraction (getTextContent() output, saved to a scratch file) or the raw usp.gv.at HTML (fetched via curl, tags stripped, whitespace collapsed) immediately before this record was finalized:

| Quote | Found verbatim in | |---|---| | "Befindet sich der Hauptwohnsitz seit mind. 5 Jahren in Österreich?" | PDF text | | "Die Gewerbeanmeldung erfolgt für die Ausübung in Form eines Industriebetriebes" | PDF text | | "Anmeldung soll frühestens wirksam werden mit" / "wenn gewünscht" | PDF text | | "Nähere Bezeichnung des Standortes" / "wenn die Angabe einer Straße oder Hausnummer nicht möglich ist" | PDF text | | "Als gewerbeberechtigte Geschäftsführung ist bestellt" | PDF text | | "Ich werde mich im Betrieb mit" / "Stunden wöchentlich betätigen" / "nur Unternehmen" | PDF text | | "Angaben zur Person mit maßgeblichem Einfluss" / "nur auszufüllen für Unternehmen" | PDF text | | "Diese Erklärungen gelten auch für den das Gewerbe anmeldenden Rechtsträger" | PDF text | | "Zuständige Stelle" / "Die Bezirkshauptmannschaft" / "In Statutarstädten" / "der Magistrat" | usp.gv.at | | "Es sind keine Stempelgebühren und Bundesverwaltungsabgaben zu entrichten" | usp.gv.at | | "Letzte Aktualisierung: 20. März 2026" | usp.gv.at | | <strong>Gewerbeanmeldung</strong> <strong class="text-grau">(LWLD-Wi/E-8)</strong> | land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/27740.htm raw HTML |

One near-miss, corrected before it shipped: an early draft of applicantCategory's description quoted the PDF's own branch instruction sentence directly ("Wenn Sie diesen Antrag nicht als natürliche Person stellen: weiter zu Punkt 2"). The raw text-layer extraction actually reads "Wenn Sie diesen Antrag nicht als natürliche Person stellen: weiter zu Punkt 2" — extra inter-word spaces, an artifact of how pdfjs-dist spaces out bold/regular text runs within the same sentence. Rather than either (a) keeping a quote that doesn't match the raw extraction byte-for-byte, or (b) silently "fixing" the spacing and presenting it as a verbatim quote, the description was rewritten as a paraphrase with no quotation marks, and sourceRef now says so explicitly ("paraphrased here due to PDF text-extraction spacing artifacts"). The two long declaration texts (Anhang 1 §39, Anhang 2 §13) have the same kind of artifact at a handful of line-wrapped hyphenated words (e.g. "maßge - bender" for "maßgebender", "erforder - lichen" for "erforderlichen") — for the same reason, documents[].statement on both attestations is written as a faithful English translation of the German bullets (matching the existing convention already used for se/bolagsverket/aktiebolag-formation's own declarationStatement/signerHandwrittenSignature documents, which are themselves English renderings of a non-English source), not a claimed byte-exact transcription of the original German.

Deliberate scope decisions (disclosed, not silently dropped)

  • Single Land, not all nine. This version models Land Oberösterreich's own edition and its 17 district authorities only. A filer with premises in another Bundesland uses that Land's own PDF of the same GewO process — a real, open, easy fast-follow candidate for a future cycle (mirroring how de/gewerbeamt/business-registration cross-checked three Länder editions of one nationally-standardized form; this version does not reach that same multi-edition bar).
  • applicantCategory is a GovSchema-synthesized top-level selector, not a single checkbox on the source — it merges the implicit "you're filing Section 1" natural-person default with the 4-way 2.1 Unternehmensart checkbox group, since the source form itself expresses the choice as "which section did you fill in", not one dedicated field. Disclosed in the field's own description.
  • managingDirectorBasis used as its own gate, rather than adding a separate synthetic yes/no "is a managing director appointed" field: the source's own 4.1 field is already a 2-option selector that is simply left blank when no managing director is appointed, so requiredWhen conditions on Section 4's other fields test managingDirectorBasis's membership in [employee, authorized_representative] directly. An absent/ unanswered enum field correctly evaluates as not in that list, so this avoids the notEquals-against-an-absent-field footgun this registry has hit before (notequals-empty-string-absent-field-bug in project memory) — in/equals against concrete values, never notEquals "", gates every conditional field in this document.
  • capabilityProof's exemption is not encoded as a requiredWhen. The source's own proviso — "entfällt bei freien Gewerben bzw. bei Bestellung einer gewerbeberechtigte Geschäftsführung" (not needed for an unrestricted trade, or when a trade-law-responsible managing director is appointed) — spans two fields (tradeCategory and managingDirectorBasis) in a plain-language exemption, and this document leaves the document as required: false with the condition described in prose (handling) rather than asserting a compound expression that might not exactly match how the authority actually applies the exemption in practice. Disclosed as a known simplification, not silently dropped.
  • **influentialPerson* fields are optional even though visible for every entity applicant. Anhang 2's "Angaben zur Person mit maßgeblichem Einfluss" block is captioned "nur auszufüllen für Unternehmen" (only for businesses) but the paper form provides exactly one** such row, while a real entity can have several persons of material influence (the Beilagen checklist for entities lists four distinct categories: the representative organ, a controlling shareholder, an unlimited personally-liable partner, and other influential persons e.g. of a parent company). Rather than invent an unbounded repeating-row convention this spec's field type enum does not support (no array type exists in spec/v0.3 — see $defs.field.properties.type), these fields are left optional with the limitation disclosed, matching this registry's established pattern for single-row paper forms describing a potentially-multiple real-world relationship (e.g. is/skatturinn/simplified-individual-tax-return's numbered employer1/employer2 fields for its own bounded-row limit). The declaration itself (documents[].declarationOfNoExclusionGrounds) remains unconditionally required: true regardless, since bullet 7 of its own text states the declaration binds "den das Gewerbe anmeldenden Rechtsträger" (the trade-registering legal entity) even when no distinct person of material influence is separately named.
  • No payment document. usp.gv.at states directly: "Es sind keine Stempelgebühren und Bundesverwaltungsabgaben zu entrichten" (no stamp duties or federal administrative fees are payable) — this process is fee-free per the federal source, unlike most other Business Formation schemas in this registry, so no documents[] entry of category payment exists here. This is a confirmed absence, not an oversight.
  • Not modelled at all: the online GISA-Express e-service and ID Austria electronic-authentication channel (usp.gv.at's "Authentifizierung und Signatur" section lists both as alternatives to the paper/PDF channel this document sources); the Betriebsanlagengenehmigung (business-premises licensing) procedure that some trades additionally require; appeal to the Landesverwaltungsgericht against a negative decision; and the exhaustive, largely circumstance-specific Beilagen items beyond the four documents[] entries modelled (EEA/third-country residence titles, insurance- intermediation-specific proofs, foreign-registration particulars, EU- establishment notifications) — these are all real, out-of-scope candidates for a future MINOR version, not silent gaps.

Pre-PR re-verification

Immediately before opening the PR, both cited URLs were re-fetched live a second time in this same session (beyond the initial retrieval) with a realistic browser User-Agent:

  • land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/Mediendateien/.../LWLD_Wi_E8_Gewerbeanmeldung.pdf — HTTP 200.
  • usp.gv.at/gruendung/EAP/gewerbeanmeldung.html — HTTP 200.
  • land-oberoesterreich.gv.at/27740.htm — HTTP 200, still lists only the E-8 edition.

node tools/verify-sources.mjs registry/at/gewerbebehoerde/trade-licence-registration/1.0.0 reports all clear (0 warnings). Every quoted phrase in this record was re-grepped against the same-session extraction files, not against memory of an earlier fetch (see the table above).

Test run

Two mock scenarios were built against the schema's own 86-field/5-document model with a disposable checker script (/tmp/atschema/check_conformance.mjs, not committed — mirrors the technique used for is/skatturinn/simplified-individual-tax-return, GOV-2084) that: (1) confirms every field appears exactly once across collectedValues/notApplicableFields; (2) evaluates every field's visibleWhen/requiredWhen condition (the shared all/any/not/ equals/notEquals/in grammar) against the scenario's collected values and flags any required-but-missing field; (3) checks every collected value's enum/pattern/minLength/maxLength/minimum/maximum constraint; (4) evaluates each documents[] entry's required/ requiredWhen against the scenario's document-provided flags.

  • Scenario A (conformance/at/gewerbebehoerde/trade-licence-registration/1.0.0/application-packet-natural-person.json): Maria Huber, an Austrian citizen resident in Linz for over 5 years, registers a new unrestricted retail trade at her own home address, personally holding the trade's requirements (no managing director appointed). 26 fields collected, 60 correctly not-applicable, 0 errors across all 86 fields; both required documents[] entries (applicantIdentityDocument, declarationOfNoExclusionGrounds) satisfied.
  • Scenario B (.../application-packet-business-entity.json): Alpenblick Handels GmbH, represented by Thomas Gruber, registers a regulated electrical-installation trade in Vöcklabruck, appointing an employee, Sabine Wimmer, as the trade-law-responsible managing director. 40 fields collected, 46 correctly not-applicable, 0 errors; all three required documents[] entries for this branch (managingDirectorIdentityDocument, declarationOfNoExclusionGrounds, managingDirectorDeclarationSection39) satisfied.
  • Five mutation/negative controls, each derived from Scenario A or B with exactly one defect introduced, each correctly raised exactly one error (confirming the checker is not vacuously passing):
    1. Removing the required naturalPersonLastName → missing-required error.
    2. Setting naturalPersonAddressPostalCode to "AB12" (violates the 4-digit pattern) → pattern-violation error.
    3. Setting tradeCategory to "some_other_category" (not in its enum) → enum-violation error.
    4. In Scenario B (managing director appointed), removing managingDirectorFirstName → missing-required error, confirming the requiredWhen conditional gate on Section 4's fields actually fires, not just Section 1/3's unconditional required: true fields.
    5. Removing the declarationOfNoExclusionGrounds document from Scenario A's documents[] → missing-required-document error.

The schema was also validated against the GovSchema v0.3 meta-schema with node tools/validate.mjs and node tools/validate-ajv.mjs (both pass, both against the full registry of 327 documents including this one, and individually against this document's own path), and against node tools/verify-sources.mjs (see above).

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance from status: draft to status: verified, a future reviewer would: cross-check a second Land's own edition of this same GewO process field-by-field (matching the three-edition standard already set by de/gewerbeamt/business-registration); confirm with Austria's own GISA system documentation (not screened this session) exactly which fields the electronic GISA-Express channel treats as mandatory versus this paper form's own conventions; and resolve the capabilityProof/ influentialPerson* scope simplifications disclosed above against a primary source that states the exemption/multiplicity rules more precisely than this session found.

Scope and jurisdiction notes

Opens Austria as a new jurisdiction in the registry (the 31st), with 1 of its 6 verticals modelled — Business Formation, via this trade- licence-registration document. Austria's other five verticals (Passport, DMV, Taxes, Visa, National ID) are open, unscreened backlog candidates for a future cycle.

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Version history

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GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by Gewerbebehörde (the locally competent Bezirkshauptmannschaft or, in a statutory city, Magistrat), applying the federal Gewerbeordnung 1994 under the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus (BMWET); this document's own source PDF is published by Land Oberösterreich (Amt der Oö. Landesregierung) for its 17 district authorities or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.