Reflect minimum prices for airline tickets the Europe right?

The Plan of the Federal government, a minimum price for airline tickets to introduce, contrary to law, according to competition lawyers in Europe. The Republic could be threatened with EU procedures.

Minister of transport, Leonore Gewessler (Green) is your latest project in a hurry. Over the summer a finished law to go back to the proposal for the introduction of a mandatory minimum price for tickets in the review, it said on Tuesday from the Ministry on the request of the “press”.

However, this state price regulation, which is intended to help reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of air travel, could encounter serious European legal problems. “The fact that you write in a statutory provision that the price may not fall below a value X: Normally we would say that this is quite problematic. Not usually,” said Florian Schuhmacher, Professor at the Institute for corporate and economic law at the University of Vienna, opposite the “press”. To say, “all airlines are required to charge a minimum price: you can’t do in principle. The compatibility of such a measure raises questions of compatibility with European competition law,“ agreed Ulrich Soltész of Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch Rechtsanwälte in Brussels.

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