Vintro Pro
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Vintro Pro
NL · FR · EN
No. The card is gone — the registration is not.
No. The authorisation to carry out itinerant activities, commonly called the pedlar's licence, has been abolished in Belgium: in Flanders since 1 April 2024, in Brussels since 1 April 2024, and in Wallonia by the decree of 27 February 2025, retroactive to 20 December 2024. A registration in the Belgian company register covering your itinerant activity is enough. A pitch is still arranged with the municipality or the market organiser.
The pedlar's licence is gone, region by region
Flanders
1 April 2024abolished since that dayBrussels
1 April 2024abolished by the ordinance of 14 December 2023Wallonia
27 February 2025decree, retroactive to 20 December 2024A pitch is still arranged with the municipality or the market organiser.
Note the word registration. The authorisation is gone, the registration is not: if the itinerant activity is not recorded for your business in the register, an inspection will find nothing. In Flanders you show a digital QR code and your ID card; in Brussels an identification board goes on your stall.
What is gone and what stays
Gone
The cardthe authorisation to carry out itinerant activitiesStays
The registrationthe itinerant activity recorded for your business in the registerA Belgian dealer taking a stall in France does need a card there.
Trading across the border means that country's rules apply. A Belgian dealer taking a stall in France does need a card there.
In Belgium your company registration with the right activity code is enough. In the Netherlands you apply to the municipality for a market or pitch permit. In France you need a carte ambulante as soon as you sell outside your own municipality: valid four years, for a fixed fee, through the CCI or the CMA. In England and Wales the council decides whether a street trading licence is needed, and only in designated streets; it does not apply on a market with a charter or a statutory basis (Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 s.3 and Sch. 4 para 1(2)(b)).
In Belgium, anyone buying to resell is acting professionally and registers as a business. If you stay under the small-business exemption — 25,000 euros of turnover in Belgium in 2026, 26,000 euros from 1 January 2027 — you charge no VAT, but you are still a taxable person. That distinction matters: compulsory e-invoicing applies to you as well. In the UK you only need to register for VAT above £90,000 of turnover (VATA 1994 Sch. 1 para 1(1)(a)).
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