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If you wish to hold a fixed or moving public assembly in the open air, you must notify the competent authority. The notification is usually confirmed by the authority and may be subject to restrictions.

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The Bavarian Assembly Act grants everyone the right to organize public assemblies and to participate in such assemblies. Therefore, the permission of an authority is not required either for the assembly or for participation in such an assembly.

Only open-air assemblies within the pacified area around the Bavarian State Parliament require a special permit, which can be issued by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration in agreement with the President of the State Parliament. Applications in this regard must be submitted to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration no later than seven days prior to the announcement of the assembly. The obligation to notify the assembly to the City of Munich remains unaffected by this.

Public assemblies in the open air take place on generally accessible streets, squares and paths, which is why the competent authority reserves the right to make regulations, for example to protect the participants in the assembly and the participants in general road traffic.

The prerequisite for this is information that a public assembly in the open air is to take place as a stationary or moving assembly. For this reason, you must notify the competent authority (generally the local district office or the district-free municipality; in the case of urgent assemblies also the police) in good time - this applies regardless of the expected number of participants - that an open-air assembly is planned and provide the following information:

  • Location of the assembly (in the case of moving assemblies, the route),
  • Time (intended start and expected end of the assembly),
  • subject,
  • Organizer and leader with personal data (surname, first name, maiden name, address).

As a rule, you will then receive a confirmation of notification from the authorities, which may be subject to restrictions depending on the circumstances of the individual case.

However, there is no obligation to notify the authorities for gatherings in enclosed spaces.

Attention is drawn to the ban on weapons and uniforms at gatherings.

if

  • it is public, i.e. if everyone has the opportunity to participate,
  • it is to take place outside closed premises (it is irrelevant whether it takes place in a fixed location or in the form of an assembly moving from location A to location B), and
  • two or more persons are to come together for a communal discussion or demonstration that is primarily aimed at participating in the formation of public opinion.

As a rule, cultural, scientific, sporting or commercial public events such as theater performances, concerts, street festivals, flea markets, etc. are not notifiable gatherings. Other provisions apply to so-called public amusements.

  • Display for assembly
    Content: Organizer, responsible leader, day, time, place, topic, expected number of participants, intended course of the meeting, objects brought along for the implementation or technical aids.

You must register an assembly with the district administration office or the independent city in whose area the assembly is to take place.

Administrative fees are generally not charged for assembly law. Fees are only payable if an exception to the ban on weapons at assemblies (e.g. for bodyguards) is applied for in justified individual cases. For these cases, a cost range of 15.00 to 200.00 euros is provided for.

According to the Bavarian Assembly Act, such an open-air assembly must be announced 48 hours prior to its public announcement - not to be confused with the start of the assembly. Announcement of an assembly is understood to mean notification by the organizer of the place, time and subject of the assembly to a specific or unspecified group of people, e.g. by announcement on a website or in a newspaper. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays are not taken into account when calculating the deadline.

Special regulations apply to so-called urgent and spontaneous meetings. In the case of an urgent meeting, the reason for the meeting arises at short notice. In this case, the notification must be submitted to the competent authority at the latest when the meeting is announced. In the case of an impromptu meeting, the notification requirement does not apply. However, a spontaneous assembly only exists if it is unplanned and arises from a situation or an immediate occasion without an organizer.

Administrative court action
Possibly granting interim legal protection prior to an assembly

Status: 07.07.2025
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bayerisches Staatsministerium des Innern, für Sport und Integration
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