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A compromise in the dispute over stricter driving ban rules for speeders has failed for the time being
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The game about future penalties for speeders continues.
In the Federal Council, none of the proposed solutions to change the road traffic regulations received the necessary majority.
The negotiations between the federal government and the federal states are now entering a new round, and drivers still have little legal security in the event of speed violations.
Even stricter penalties for motorists, who endanger cyclists, for example, are no longer in force.
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With a comprehensive change to the road traffic regulations, the Federal Council in February also significantly tightened the penalties for driving too fast in the catalog of fines - from 21 kilometers per hour too much in town and 26 km / h outside town, a one-month driving ban should threaten.
Drivers were given back their driving licenses
The regulation came into force in April.
But then it turned out that the regulation has a formal error for which Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) has now taken responsibility.
The innovations in the catalog of fines have since been suspended.
Driving licenses that had already been withdrawn were returned to the affected drivers.
Until shortly before the Federal Council meeting, it was unclear whether a compromise could be reached.
However, there was no majority among the federal states for two applications.
Above all, the Greens are in favor of only eliminating the formal error first, without lessening the penalties for speeders - the latter had vehemently demanded, among other things, Transport Minister Scheuer, because he now considers the driving ban rule to be excessive.
Countries like North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria also see it that way.
The proposal of the transport committee fails in plenary
Instead, fines could have been increased and stricter rules, for example in front of schools or kindergartens, could have been included in the ordinance.
NRW, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein had submitted such a compromise proposal to the Federal Council's transport committee, where it found a majority - but not in plenary.
The Greens can stop decisions there because they co-govern in 11 of 16 countries and one country has to abstain if the coalition does not agree.
45 of the 69 votes in the Bundesrat depend on the Greens; 35 votes are necessary for a majority in the regional chamber.
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