Declare renunciation of amateur radio license or call sign allocations

You can declare your renunciation of your license to participate in the amateur radio service or one of your call sign allocations to the Federal Network Agency.

Are you licensed to participate in the amateur radio service and no longer need your license or one of your call signs? Then you can declare your renunciation to the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA).

Send a declaration of renunciation to the BNetzA if you no longer need the following:

• Your authorization to participate in the amateur radio service and your associated personal callsign allocation,
• Your training callsign,
• your club station callsign or
• your callsign allocation for a remotely or automatically operated amateur radio station.

Please note: By renouncing your personal callsign allocation, you simultaneously renounce all other callsign allocations that may have been additionally allocated to you. You are then no longer authorized to participate in the amateur radio service.

The renunciation becomes effective at the latest at the end of the month in which the declaration is received by the BNetzA. Only then will your obligation to pay contributions end. Contributions due until then will be collected subsequently.

• Application form
• Your original allocation or approval certificate

• You are authorized to participate in the amateur radio service in Germany and therefore have a personal callsign.

• Appeal
  Further information on how to lodge an objection can be found in the notification or the fee notice.
• Appeal to the administrative court

You can submit your waiver online or by post.

Online application:

• Call up the online application on the federal portal verwaltung.bund.de. This will guide you step by step through the necessary information. Complete the application in full online.
• Submit your application online.
• Send the original of your approval or allocation certificate to the BNetzA. If you no longer have this, the BNetzA also requires an informal declaration of loss.
• The BNetzA will check and process your application.
• You will receive
  • a waiver confirmation and
  • a request for payment.
• You pay the fee.

By post:

• Send an informal, personally signed declaration of renunciation by post to the BNetzA and enclose your registration or allocation certificate. If you no longer have these, the BNetzA will also require an informal declaration of loss.
• The BNetzA will check and process your application.
• You will receive
  • a waiver confirmation and
  • a request for payment.
• You pay the fee.

There is no application deadline.

A one-off fee is generally charged for this official act. If you do not waive your authorization to participate in the amateur radio service, but "only" waive another call sign assignment, the waiver will be processed free of charge.: Fee 15,00 EUR (Information on cost composition can be found here)