Frequently asked questions · Starting out as a dealer

What do you need to trade at a market?

Four countries, four systems. Your own country says nothing about the one next door.

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, 30 euros, through the CCI or the CMA. In England and Wales the council issues a street trading licence.

The exception for private individuals and associations at antiques markets does not cover anyone buying to resell — not even for one Saturday a month. Once you do that you are a dealer and the rules for itinerant trading apply.

Allow for lead time. A Dutch municipality and a French CCI work in weeks; starting two days before the market means not being there.

What each country asks

Belgium No card any more

your company number in the register has itself become the authorisation

Netherlands The municipality decides

market or pitch permit per municipality; no national card

France Carte ambulante

valid four years, 30 euros, through the CCI or the CMA

UK Street trading licence

issued by the council in England and Wales

Checked on 8 September 2026 at the Flemish government (vlaanderen.be) and Brussels Economy and Employment for Belgium, at Ondernemersplein for the Netherlands, at Service-Public Entreprendre for France and at legislation.gov.uk for the United Kingdom.

Where this comes from

Checked on 8 September 2026 at the Flemish government (vlaanderen.be) and Brussels Economy and Employment for Belgium, at Ondernemersplein for the Netherlands, at Service-Public Entreprendre for France and at legislation.gov.uk for the United Kingdom.

This is an explanation, not tax or legal advice. Put your own situation to your accountant.

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Do you still need a pedlar's licence in Belgium?

No. The authorisation to carry out itinerant activities, commonly called the pedlar's licence, has been abolished: in Flanders by the 2024 reform, for the rest of the country by the Walloon decree of February 2025. 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.

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How do you get your pieces online?

Adding a piece is taking a photo and filling in three fields; the rest can wait. Publish the piece and it appears on the marketplace with its own address, so you can forward or share that link. Marking it sold takes it off the marketplace by itself, without you losing the row.

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