The German Parliament passed Friday, May 8, 2015 decried a proposed automobile toll, which will penalize first foreign users and against which Brussels and several neighboring Germany already ranting.
The Bundesrat, the upper chamber Parliament gave its green light to the text already approved by the Bundestag (lower house) and would introduce current 2016 on motorways and national roads German annual vignette, the amount defined by the age of the car, engine displacement and certain environmental criteria, can reach 130 euros.
This project was the workhorse of the CSU, Bavarian sister smaller of the Conservative party of Angela Merkel and coalition member in power. The CSU had dangled his voters the introduction of a toll for foreigners promise carrier in a region where many people pay to use highways of neighboring Austria and Switzerland.
As a toll for foreign vividly only violate EU rules, the successful project is that of an electronic vignette payable by all . But to ensure that in practice foreigners will actually be the only ones to pay more, the tax which already fulfills every car owner in Germany shall be reduced to avoid a double charge.
Foreign motorists must pay for 5, 10 or 15 euros for a short vignette . For now, in Germany, only trucks pay a toll.
“The toll (automotive) ensures the long-term development of our infrastructure”, defended before the Bundesrat Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt. The minister said the mechanism should bring additional 500 million euros per year, excluding operating costs, which will be invested in the maintenance and expansion of the road network of the first European economy.
Before adoption, the project has been the subject of much criticism on the part of neighboring countries, including Austria, the Netherlands or France where Alsace and Lorraine have many Border , but also from the European Commission, which is concerned about discrimination against foreign drivers.
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