Minimum prices in Munich: Taxi association sees no fundamental prohibition by the court.

The Administrative Court of Munich has provisionally challenged the municipal minimum price regulation for taxi and rental-car traffic in several expedited proceedings. According to the Federal Association of Taxi and Rental Cars, the decision concerns in particular the geographic scope of the regulation. The City of Munich had extended the minimum transport charges to trips outside its jurisdiction. A fundamental prohibition of municipal minimum prices cannot be derived from the decisions, according to the association.

Geographic jurisdiction as the point of contention

At the center of the legal dispute, according to the Federal Association, is the question of for which trips a municipality may set binding minimum transport charges. The Munich regulation accordingly also covered transports that extended beyond the city limits.

The Administrative Court has, in particular, objected to this geographic extent. The basic admissibility of municipal minimum transport charges, however, was not ruled out, the association explains in its statement of October 9, 2026. According to the Federal Association's assessment, this creates the possibility to adjust the Munich regulation without having to abandon the instrument of minimum prices. However, a final court decision has not yet been issued. The main proceedings are still pending.

Dortmund limits minimum prices to the city area

As a possible model for adjusting Munich's regulation, the Federal Association points to the city of Dortmund. There, in shaping the municipal minimum fare charges, experiences from legal disputes in Essen had already been taken into account.

The Dortmund general decree explicitly provides that the minimum prices apply exclusively to taxi rides that take place entirely within the city area. Rides that extend beyond the city limits are thus not subject to this regulation.

In the association's view, Dortmund, with this spatial restriction, takes into account the questions of jurisdiction that now also play a role in Munich's minimum price regulation. The association sees in this an approach that Munich could consider when revising its own general decree. Whether such an adjustment would meet all legal requirements is not stated in the notice.

The Federal Association reports changes in Munich's traffic volume

The Federal Association advocates maintaining the minimum-price regulation in Munich in principle. As arguments, it cites, in addition to regulating competition, changes in traffic volume since the introduction of the minimum fare charges.

According to the association, in the months after the regulation came into effect, a portion of the traffic volume shifted from particularly cheap rental-car offers to the taxi trade and to the environmental transport network. The Federal Association does not provide concrete figures on the extent of this development in its statement. Also, details on the data basis or on the effects on the individual transport modes are missing.

The Association regards the development as an argument for the continuation of municipal price regulation. The aim is to limit price competition between taxi and rental-car companies and to influence the competitive conditions in the passenger transport market.