Foreign motorists must pay for 5, 10 or 15 euros for a vignette valid for ten days and from 16 to 30 euros for a vignette valid two months.
Germany draws its Swiss and Austrian neighbors by creating a vignette for highways. The German parliament on Friday passed a car toll decried project that will penalize first foreign users. The initiative has already attracted strong criticism in Brussels, which deems discriminatory and in neighboring countries, France and the Netherlands. The Bundesrat, the upper house of Parliament gave its green light to the text, already approved by the Bundestag (lower house), which plans to establish power in 2016 on German motorways and national roads an annual vignette.
The amount defined by the age of the car, engine size 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 member of the ruling coalition.
Since tolls applicable to foreigners only contravene European rules, the successful project is that of an electronic vignette payable by all. Foreign motorists must pay for 5, 10 or 15 euros for a vignette valid for ten days and from 16 to 30 euros for a vignette valid two months. For now, in Germany, only trucks pay a toll.
“The toll will secure the long term development of our infrastructure,” defended in the Bundesrat Transport Minister, Alexander Dobrindt, according to which the mechanism must bring an additional EUR 500 million per year.
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