By Yasmine EDDAM
17 April 2025
html Operating an itinerant commercial or craft business involves specific administrative obligations. The first document you need to obtain to practise legally is a business card. Failure to obtain one can result in severe penalties and jeopardise the regular exercise of the activity. The obligation to make a prior declaration of activity The Commercial Code requires a prior declaration from anyone wishing to carry on an itinerant commercial or craft activity. Persons subject to the obligation The declaration concerns three categories of economic operator, including itinerant traders and fairground stallholders: natural persons carrying on an itinerant commercial or craft activity outside their municipality of residence legal persons carrying on an itinerant commercial or craft activity outside the municipality of their principal place of business persons with no fixed address or residence (fairground stallholders) This obligation applies to traders registered with the RCS, craftspeople registered with the trade register and self-employed entrepreneurs, even those exempt from registration. Article R. 123-208-1 of the French Commercial Code sets out a number of exceptions...
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