Bundesverband Carsharing e.V.
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Bundesverband CarSharing e.V.
ID: 642872440346-69
Lobbying Activity
Response to Clean corporate vehicles
29 Aug 2025
Der Bundesverband Carsharing als Dachverband der deutschen Carsharing-Anbieter begrüßt und unterstützt das Ziel der EU-Kommission für eine klimaneutrale, emissionsfreie Mobilität. Die bisher veröffentlichten Vorschläge der EU-Kommission (Mitteilung vom 05.03.2025 zur Dekarbonisierung von Unternehmensflotten) stellen jedoch keinen sinnvollen Ansatz dar, um die Antriebsumstellung bei Carsharing-Flotten zu befördern. Einzelne Überlegungen gefährden gar den weiteren Ausbau verkehrsentlastender Carsharing-Angebote und werden von uns entschieden abgelehnt. Die mit der geplanten Gesetzesinitiative verfolgten industrie- und klimapolitischen Ziele werden (bezogen auf die Carsharing-Flotten) nicht erreicht. Das Nähere ist unserer ausführlichen Stellungnahme zu entnehmen, die als Anlage beigefügt ist.
Read full responseResponse to Multimodal Digital Mobility Services
2 Nov 2021
As the German carsharing association we give feedback on the planned new initiative for a regulation on multimodal digital mobility services from the perspective oft he German carsharing providers.
The Delegate Regulation (EU) 2017/1926 already ensures, that multimodal travel information for end customers will be available in all EU member states and across borders. Most MaaS applications that incorporate carsharing today function on the basis of a data set as it is described in the above mentioned regulation – namely position and availability of the carsharing car. Most existing MaaS applications offer access to the further steps of booking and payment of a carsharing car by providing deep links into the carsharing booking system of the respective service operator. This is the most cost effective way to make a multimodal MaaS integration with carsharing happen. On the other hand full technical integration of booking, use-related services and payment of a carsharing car into a MaaS application is complex and expensive. There are up to now no existing business models for fully integrated MaaS applications. We estimate that this will be the case at least fort he next 10 to 20 years. Therefor we generally doubt that a regulation on the full integration of booking and payment of a carsharing car into MDMS or MaaS applications is needed at the moment. We strongly recommend, that if further regulative action is taken, the obligation to provide data and / or APIs for a full integration should be non-binding for EU member states.
We fear that a regulation on the integration of booking and payment of mobility services into MDMS will at the moment mainly be a means for companies providing MDMS and MaaS applications to gain a better market position and install a „platform-economy“ in the field of mobility services. To ensure that a further EU regulation will not lead to significant distortions in the market for mobility services, a new regulation should enforce the following rules for providers of MaaS applications and mobility service operators:
- Providers of a MaaS application should not be allowed tob e operators of mobility services at the same time, because in this case the MaaS provider would obtain business intelligence of the operators and services he - as a service operator - is also competing with.
- Providers of a MaaS application have to share all relevant data on end-customer demand at self cost with the mobility operators they integrate. If this is not done, reselling demand-data to mobility services will become a common practice and thus the digital integration of mobility services into MaaS applications will result in increased prices for end customers.
- Providers of MaaS applications should not be allowed to reuse ore resell the data and meta-data they obtain by way of integration mobility services without the permission of the mobility service operator they integrate. If this is not done, the operators business models will become transparent für their competitors which will lead to market distortions.
- Mobility service operators need to be able to determine the prices and conditions of use of their service at all times and non-agreed reselling via MaaS applications must be forbidden.
- Mobility service operators need to get all the customer data and access to the customer that is needed to run their service and fullfill the legal obligations in all EU member states. For carsharing this means: If end-users no longer book cars in the carsharing booking application itself but in third party systems, all data on the validity of the customers driving license needs to be shared and the operator needs to be allowed to contact the customer during his use of the operators service for example in case of technical problems or if an accident happened.
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