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StVO: Amendment still not in sight

According to its own statements, the Federal Ministry of Transport is continuing to work on a compromise proposal that can gain majority support.

The originally planned amendment to the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO) would have introduced several changes for truck drivers: turning at walking speed, an absolute stopping ban on bike paths. | Image: Scania/Dan Boman
The originally planned amendment to the Road Traffic Regulations (StVO) would have introduced several changes for truck drivers: turning at walking speed, an absolute stopping ban on bike paths. | Image: Scania/Dan Boman
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von Christine Harttmann

The revision of the road traffic regulations is still pending. This emerges from the response of the federal government to a small inquiry from the FDP parliamentary group. It states that no proposal for an amendment to the revision has yet found a majority in the Bundesrat. The Federal Ministry of Transport is also continuing to work on finding a compromise for an appropriate adjustment of penalty levels for traffic violations to improve road safety. Measures to protect bicycle and pedestrian traffic will also continue to be intensified in the future.

How many penalty notices based on the new penalty regulation have been annulled since the determination of the illegality of the penalty catalog, the federal government cannot specify according to their response. The annulment of a penalty notice leads to the subsequent deletion of the respective entry in the driving aptitude register, it is reported. It is therefore not possible to determine how many of the deleted entries are attributable to penalty notices from the amendment in question of the penalty catalog regulation.

The StVO amendment passed last year failed due to a formal error. Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer had forgotten the reference to the legal basis in the wording. Since then, it has been on hold.

Translated automatically from German.
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