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Passenger Transport Law: VSPV calls for stricter platform regulation
The Association of Private Commercial Road Passenger Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia, VSPV e.V., handed over a position paper on updating the Passenger Transport Act to Federal Minister of Transport Patrick Schnieder in Berlin on May 27, 2026. According to the association, the evaluation of the last amendment due this year marks the appropriate time for a fundamental modernization of the legal framework.
The handover took place on the sidelines of a mobility event. With the paper, the association intends to open the discussion with the Federal Ministry of Transport, the Bundestag factions, as well as the Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Ambivalent assessment of the last reform
The association draws a mixed assessment of the previous reform of the Passenger Transport Act. In particular, the regulation of platform-mediated rental-car traffic has, according to the association, proven to be weak in enforcement. The intended balance between taxi and rental-car traffic has not been achieved in practice.
Platform traffic concentrates on economically attractive deployment fields and deprives the public-interest transport of revenue streams from which nationwide provision is financed. In the association's view, this results in a structural imbalance.
Functional reorganization instead of commercial demarcation
At the center of the position paper is the proposal to replace the historically grown commercial regulations with a functionally differentiated platform regulation. In the future, regulation should no longer be primarily tied to the operating form, but to the function of the respective mobility service within the mobility system.
The taxi is classified as a fare-bound, reliably available, and publicly integrated mode of transport for the provision of public services. The rental-car traffic should be recognized as a privately run complementary transport service. The association does not regard digital platforms merely as a mediation medium, but as a central regulatory instrument that coordinates both forms of transport without abolishing their regulatory differences.
EU-law-based justification and concrete measures
For legal classification, the association points to the sectoral regulatory competence of the Member States in the transport sector in accordance with Article 58 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
In addition to the structural reorganization, the position paper identifies concrete fields of action in supervision, market regulation and the structure of the trades. Among other things, proposals include the expansion of the transport company database to on-demand transport, an administrative access to digital operating and intermediary data, as well as a regulatory attribution of responsibility for influential intermediary platforms. Additionally, an individualized prohibition rule in Section 25a of the Passenger Transport Act for taxi and rental-car traffic is being proposed. (Source: VSPV)
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