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Bremen's FDP criticizes minimum prices for rental cars – TMV warns of distortion of competition
At the Taxi- and Rental Car Association Germany (TMV), the argumentation of the Bremen Liberals understandably meets with clear opposition. The real distortion of competition does not arise from possible price floors, but from the existing market dynamics. Dumping prices are often only possible because rules are circumvented – for example with the return-to-base obligation, with minimum wage requirements or through constructs that circumvent social protection.
TMV calls for a truly fair competition
The political demand for “competition on a level playing field” therefore falls short for the association if it is linked at the same time with proposals such as the abolition of the return-to-base obligation. From the TMV's perspective, a pattern is consolidating here that is increasingly evident in transport policy debates. TMV President Thomas Kroker puts it like this:
“Naturally we, and our industry, are in favor of a competition on a level playing field. However, this requires the will to comply with applicable laws and regulations. If this were to happen, we would have a fair coexistence.”
The Bremen Liberals' demand completely misses taxi reality
Many taxi companies are under significant economic pressure. Competition, according to Kroker, is almost unwinnable for them, because the business models face each other and operate under different conditions. The TMV uses unusually blunt language and speaks of a systematic displacement process. The aim now is to counteract politically – not only in the interest of the industry but also of the passengers. For the association warns of a possible scenario in which low prices initially arise through aggressive market strategies, but in the long run could lead to a phase of lacking alternatives.
“The TMV will leave no stone unturned to ensure that a rethink finally occurs here, so that an important part of the population's mobility as a public service does not disappear, and thereby the free pricing of platform-mediated rental cars no longer enables passengers to obtain affordable transportation.”
Together for minimum prices
The association signals openness to joint initiatives, provided they bring concrete improvements.
"Therefore it is also very welcome that more and more proposals for joint action are coming. The TMV is happy to participate, as long as it is useful for our trade. It must be spoken with a strong voice."
The conflict is thus increasingly shifting to the fundamental question: How much regulation does a market that is also part of public provision of services need? For the TMV the answer is clear—and urgent. Without binding rules, the warning says, there is a risk of a shift in perspective: away from today’s price pressure toward a market where a few providers set the prices.
Content automatically translated."Otherwise we will soon be at the point where the taxi trade stands today, but not in the form of fighting against dumping prices, rather against exorbitant prices, which the population, due to a lack of alternatives, cannot bear."
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