Germany received permission from European Commission to introduce road toll. That is a farewell to the free use of more than 12.000 kilometers of German motorways.
Annual vignette for drivers of motor vehicles should cost up to 130 EUR. That expense will be reimbursed to the drivers through taxes on motor vehicles. Owners of vehicles who cause the minimum environmental damage (owners of Euro 6 class vehicles) will even be rewarded in that calculation.
Until now, the European Union believed that drivers from abroad are discriminated because the reimbursement of costs is valid only for German citizens. Now even foreign drivers will feel the relief – the cheapest vignette for ten days will cost 2.5 EUR instead of previously foreseen 5 EUR. There will be five types of vignettes and the most expensive one will cost 20 EUR.
Although the European Commission has no other objections, Austria announced a lawsuit before the European Court of Justice because of the discrimination of its drivers in Germany, and the Netherlands and Belgium might also do it – together.
(Source: ekapija.com)
