Vendors plan to seek compensation from German govt over thwarted toll-report

Kapsch TrafficCom AG

21/06/2019 12:24

BERLIN, June 21 (Reuters) - The companies that were set to
operate the German motorway vignette scheme scuppered by a
European Court ruling earlier this week plan to demand 300
million euros ($339.21 million) compensation from Berlin, Der
Spiegel reported on Friday.
    The magazine said that the vendor companies had expected to
make some 2 billion euros in profit from the scheme, which the
EU's highest court ruled discriminatory against drivers from
neigbouring countries.  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N23P1KJ
    The German Transport Ministry was attempting to reduce the
size of the claims the government faced, Der Spiegel added.
    
 
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 (Reporting by Riham Alkousaa
Writing by Thomas Escritt
Editing by Michelle Martin)
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