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VSPV seeks a united front in Berlin: Reform of the Passenger Transport Law required
For the VSPV, it was one of the first political discussions after regaining its organizational autonomy. Managing Director Sascha Waltemate and Patrick Meinhardt, the general attorney-in-fact and head of the Berlin office, met Schopf in his constituency office in Prenzlauer Berg. The SPD politician is the spokesperson for mobility and transport for his parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives and was previously a state secretary.
Initiative from Berlin
Schopf made clear how much political substance there is in 2026 in the taxi and rental-car sector. The SPD parliamentary group in Berlin has developed a Bundesrat initiative to evaluate and further develop the Passenger Transport Act (PBefG). The aim is to submit this as soon as possible as an initiative of the Berlin Senate to the Bundesrat. The message: The reform debate should not be postponed, but should by the middle of the year form a focal point of mobility policy.
The VSPV explicitly welcomes this thrust. Waltemate and Meinhardt see in it an opportunity for state governments to act as pace-setters. The industry expects, according to the association, that the necessary improvements will not only be announced but also politically negotiated—in factions, in the Bundestag and in the state parliaments, in the Conference of Transport Ministers, in hearings of the transport committees, as well as together with municipal peak associations.
Market Transparency and Oversight
Content-wise, the debate from the VSPV's perspective centers on a core conflict: How can an increasingly digitized on-demand transport be effectively supervised without abandoning the fundamental regulatory principles of the law? The association relies, above all, on market transparency and on an oversight that keeps pace with the reality of app-mediated dispatch and platform logic.
A central concern is the expansion of the Traffic Operator File to cover occasional transport. A nationwide uniform, digital registration of licensed companies and responsible persons is, according to the VSPV, not a bureaucratic end in itself. Rather, it should provide the basis to organize oversight effectively, to detect circumvention strategies, and to ensure fair competition among operators who comply with the rules.
Data must be available
A closely related issue is licensing authorities’ access to digital data. The VSPV argues that oversight in the digital age can only function if data from app-based mediation and digital operations management are fully, unchanged, and analyzable. It is not about new intervention powers, but about a contemporary evolution of existing rights—and thus about an adaptation to the actual market conditions.
The role of intermediaries also came up. The association points out that existing law already assigns responsibility, but it is not consistently enforced in practice. A more precise application of the existing licensing and responsibility duties is necessary in order to prevent diffusion of liability—and to curb business models that rely on structural rule circumvention.
Waltemate regards the discussion as a confirmation of the need for action. The evaluation of the Passenger Transport Act must be understood as a key policy-setting decision. The VSPV intends to contribute constructively and in a solution-oriented manner. Meinhardt also calls for political understanding across party lines—and for unity within the industry. Those who wish to position themselves against platform giants like Uber must do so with clear boundaries and a coherent, unified message.
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