Overview

• The Transport Ministry confirmed the additional compensation, which appears in the Finance Ministry’s submission for the Bundestag budget committee’s wrap-up session on Thursday.
• The roughly €27 million resolves an arbitration linked to the terminated “automatic control of the infrastructure charge” contract.
• Officials say the cost will be covered by increasing the global spending reduction line, with the specific offset to be set during year-end accounting.
• Earlier proceedings led to a €243 million payment to Autoticket in 2023 after the European Court of Justice stopped the toll in 2019 for discriminating against foreigners, and operators had initially sought €560 million.
• Berlin prosecutors have indicted former transport minister Andreas Scheuer and ex–state secretary Gerhard Schulz over alleged false testimony to a Bundestag inquiry, and a Berlin court must decide whether to admit the case.