The car toll planned by the then Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) failed because of EU law. It is now clear how much compensation the companies involved will receive from the federal government.
According to the operator, there has been an agreement in the dispute over compensation for the failed car toll. As the Kapsch company reported on Wednesday in a mandatory stock exchange announcement, a payment of 243 million euros from the federal government is to be expected “due to a comparative agreement reached with the Federal Republic of Germany”. .
Former Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) had terminated the contracts with the companies involved in implementing the toll after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) overturned the project.
The car toll was a prestige project of the CSU: It was designed in such a way that German car owners would not have incurred any additional costs due to deductions in vehicle tax, while foreign vehicle owners would have paid more. In June 2019, the ECJ ruled that this violated EU law.
Compensation for car tolls
Immediately afterwards, Scheuer (CSU) terminated the operator contracts with the company Autoticket, which in turn belongs to the companies CTS Eventim from Munich and Kapsch from Austria. He rejected the company’s claims for compensation. The Department of Transportation filed a request for arbitration in February 2020. In March 2022, the arbitral tribunal awarded the companies the right to compensation.
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Negotiations on the amount of the payment continued under the FDP-led Ministry of Transport. Eventim and Kapsch demanded 560 million euros. According to “Spiegel”, the budget committee in the Bundestag approved the payment of 243 million euros proposed by the arbitral tribunal in a secret meeting. The federal government is also left with another double-digit million sum for legal and administrative costs and other proceedings.
Source: Stern
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