BVTM finally demands concrete relief: the federal association is putting pressure on Minister Reiche.

Herwig Kollar, president of the Federal Association of Taxi and Rental Cars, makes his position clear:
“For months we have been hearing announcements about relief, digital administration and the reduction of bureaucracy. But with concrete, immediately implementable measures such as the calibration interval for taximeters, nothing happens at all. Minister Reiche must finally move from talking to acting – and right now.”

Already in May the Federal Association had drawn the new Minister of Economic Affairs' attention in a letter to the systematically discriminatory special regulation for the taxi trade: While for almost all measuring devices the calibration interval is two years, taximeters must be calibrated annually – although the error statistics of the calibration authorities provide no basis for this. For distance counters in rental cars, which are technically almost identical, the normal two-year calibration interval remains in effect.

The consequence: an additional burden amounting to millions of euros, exclusively for the taxi trade, which is already under massive competitive pressure.

“We are talking here about a relief of around 15 million euros annually – without additional costs for the state, without a change in the law, without political dispute. It only takes a small change in a regulation,” says Kollar.
“When even such simple steps are not taken, all promises to reduce bureaucracy are not worth the paper on which they are written.”