The judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on Tuesday 18 June in Case C-591/17 that the German vignette for the use of federal roads by private motor vehicles was contrary to EU law, in that the targeted fee is discriminatory.
In 2015, Germany introduced a charge for the use of federal roads by private motor vehicles (‘infrastructure charge’), partly based on the user-pays and polluter-pays principles. The amount of this fee is based on the cylinder...