Cartel boss sees positive effect of excess on the taxi industry – Heise News Ticker

Cartel boss sees positive effect of excess on the taxi industry – Heise News Ticker

In a newspaper interview the President of the Bundeskartellamt referred to the controversial US-Startup Uber as positive for the German taxi market.

The President of the Bundeskartellamt, Andreas Mundt , welcomed the entry of US-based Uber in the German taxi market. “Uber has brought movement in the market. Increased competition can not hurt the taxi business,” Mundt said the newspaper Rheinische Post . “Uber but also benefits from the fact that it is not subject to the strict regulations for the traditional taxi beings.” Therefore, it was appropriate “to discuss a liberal in the previous regulation.”

conceivable is about, not so strictly to examine local knowledge with taxi drivers as before. “Navigation systems are a good example of that technical developments deregulation may suggest,” Mundt said in the Interview [1] .

The controversial US-Startup Uber mediated via a smartphone App courier services and also engaged private

drivers in this country are not authorized under the Passenger Transport Act. The German taxi industry sees this as a violation of applicable law and there are already first judgments against the US competition: In Berlin and Hamburg two administrative courts have previously pronounced by local authorities against Uber ban confirmed [2] . About then went into the counteroffensive [3] and opened the platform in these two cities for taxis.

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