Overview

• The city council committee dropped binding minimum fares after SPD and CSU tabled an amendment for voluntary agreements.
• Lawmakers tasked the Kreisverwaltungsreferat with drafting negotiations to set price floors alongside minimum honorariums for ride-hailing drivers.
• Roughly 300 taxi drivers blocked central Munich streets on July 29 and staged a renewed protest July 30 to press for stronger protections.
• Taxi associations warn that an estimated 1,800 mostly unregulated ride-hailing cars undercut regulated tariffs and trigger labour and social-law violations.
• Munich follows Heidelberg’s move to implement a minimum tariff August 1 while Berlin reviews similar measures and Leipzig has seen court-overturned fare floors.