Internet provider Uber remains banned in Land Berlin
Press Release No.. 41/2014 from 26.09.2014
The provision of transport over the smartphone app Uber remains banned in the State of Berlin. The Administrative Court of Berlin confirmed in a rush process, the official ban.
According to the 11. Chamber of the Court allowed the State of Berlin imparting motion tasks to licensed car service contractor (UberBlack) as well as to private driver (UberPop) prohibit under the Industrial Code. Because these services operate Uber pecuniary interest or. businesslike occasional transport of passengers by road vehicles without permission, although such is necessary for the transport of persons law. Although Uber myself have neither personal vehicles still employed drivers, had the company not only a mere intermediary of travel services, because it auftrete against the passengers to the outside as contractors. Only this understanding will meet the purpose of the authorization, consists in using, to protect the passenger to be transported as fully as possible. This is likely to rely on, that the competent authority has subjected the operators of public passenger transport in a personal and professional background check and monitor him for the purposes of consumer protection.
The services of Uber also be a consideration: The contention of the applicant, a payment for the services is voluntary, not only contrary to their own terms of use; However the supposed possibility, to revoke the estimated service charge, no card for the free education of Transports, but put the Entgeltlichkeit the contrary advance, because otherwise there would be nothing to revoke. Further