Municipal Transport Financing Act

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Basic data
Title: Law on federal financial aid to improve traffic conditions in the municipalities
Short title: Municipal Transport Financing Act
Abbreviation: GVFG
Type: Federal law
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany
Legal matter: Special administrative law , general road construction law , traffic route planning law
References : 910-6
Original version from: March 18, 1971
( BGBl. I p. 239 )
Entry into force on: 1st January 1971
New announcement from: January 28, 1988
( Federal Law Gazette I p. 100 )
Last change by: Art. 323 VO of June 19, 2020
( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1328, 1366 )
Effective date of the
last change: 		June 27, 2020
(Art. 361 of June 19, 2020)
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.

By the Municipal Transport Financing Act (GVFG) or, in the long title, Law on federal financial assistance to improve the traffic conditions of the communities which grants federal government the countries financial aid for investments to improve the traffic conditions of the communities ( § 1 GVFG).

The text of the law specifies various “eligible projects” ( Section 2 (1) GVFG), the “requirements for funding” ( Section 3 GVFG) and “amount and scope of funding” ( Section 4 GVFG). One of the prerequisites is that the standardized assessment for the project calculates an overall economic benefit-cost ratio greater than 1 ( Section 2 (1) No. 2, Section 11 of the GVFG).

Funding is not the same for every federal state, as local conditions are also taken into account. For example, the special circumstances of the new federal states are taken into account ( Section 2, Paragraph 3, Section 6, Paragraph 2, Sentence 5, Section 10, Paragraph 2, No. 2, Section 12, Paragraph 4 of the GVFG).

history

In 1964, a commission of experts submitted an investigation into measures to improve traffic conditions in municipalities.

The mineral oil tax was increased in 1967 through the Tax Amendment Act of December 23, 1966 . 40 percent of the expected additional revenue of 660 million DM was to be used for projects to improve local public transport. 50 percent of the eligible costs of a plan (i.e. construction costs minus administration and planning costs) could be financed with it. The remaining 50 percent had to be covered elsewhere.

The Leber Plan presented in October 1967 provided for one of numerous measures to improve the traffic conditions in the municipalities within the framework of a multi-year program to be drawn up jointly by the federal and state governments.

The Municipal Transport Financing Act came into force on January 1, 1971.

As part of the federalism reform , the regulations of the GVFG were modified, even if they remained partially unchanged in the legal text. The Act on the Unbundling of Community Tasks and Financial Aid regulates this in more detail (Unbundling Act - UnbundlingG) .

In a transition period running until the end of 2019, the federal states will receive funds from the Unbundling Act as compensation. This does not apply to regulations created in accordance with Article 125c (2) GG § 6 (1) GVFG , which will remain in place until the end of 2019. This concerns the federal program for the promotion of the construction and expansion of traffic routes of municipal public transport projects (trams, elevated and underground railways as well as special types of railways), non-federal railways and infrastructure projects for local rail passenger transport of Deutsche Bahn in conurbations with eligible costs over 50 Million Euros. For this purpose, the federal government provides an investment volume of 332.56 million euros per year, unchanged since 1997. Most of the funds available for the period up to 2019 have already been committed.

Since January 1, 2007, the federal states have received funds amounting to 1,335.5 million euros annually ( Section 3 (1) Unbundling Act ) from the federal budget to replace the GVFG contributions that are no longer applicable . As of 2014, these funds will no longer be earmarked for transport purposes and the funds will then only have to be earmarked for investment purposes of any kind ( Section 5 in conjunction with Section 4 (3) EntflechtG ). From 2020 the federal funds would have ceased to exist if the federal and state governments had not agreed on further funding by the federal government as part of the “revision clause ” ( § 6 ).

In April 2013, the states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia submitted a draft law to continue the GVFG federal program. The draft provides for the annual funds of 332.56 million euros to be made available from 2020 onwards. By the end of 2038, it should therefore be checked whether and to what extent the amounts are still appropriate from January 1, 2040. On September 25, 2015, the federal and state governments agreed to continue the GVFG in the previous scope for a further 15 years. The funds distributed annually under the GVFG have not been adjusted since 1996 (as of 2016).

The GVFG federal program will be expanded to 665 million in 2020 and increased to one billion from 2021. The previously necessary amendment to the Basic Law took place on March 28, 2019.

As part of a “climate protection program” presented in September 2019, the federal government intends to increase GVFG funds to two billion euros per year from 2025.

The Bavarian Railway Company criticizes the fact that the funds from the increase as a result of increasing infrastructure fees and the planned GVFG financing of the ETCS retrofitting of regional vehicles left hardly any funds for additional trains.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BT-Drs. 4/2661 : Report of the expert commission on an investigation of measures to improve the traffic conditions in the municipalities; Report by the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn on proposals for improving the economic situation of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (PDF; 7.2 MB).
  2. ^ Willi Keckeisen: V-Bahn Frankfurt (Main): The preliminary design and the design method . In: Railway technical review . tape 34 , no. December 12 , 1967, ISSN  0013-2845 , pp. 411-451 .
  3. ↑ "Liver defends its transport reform". In: Die Bundesbahn , ISSN  0007-5876 , 20/1967, pp. 766-771.
  4. ↑ a b c Draft law for the continuation of the GVFG federal program . Printed matter 312/13. April 24, 2013 ( bundesrat.de ).
  5. ↑ Text of the Unbundling Act
  6. ↑ Fabian Ziehe: Funding for the rail: the country benefits greatly . In: Südwest Presse . September 26, 2015, ZDB ID 1360527-6 , p. 6 ( online ).
  7. ↑ The German transport infrastructure is “crumbling” . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 4 , 2016, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 162 .
  8. ↑ Federal Minister Scheuer: Billions in investments for equal living conditions. In: bmvi.de. Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, November 23, 2018, accessed on December 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ New regulation of the GVFG faltering . In: turntable . No. 293 , ISSN  0934-2230 , ZDB -ID 1283841-X , p. 7 .
  10. ↑ Additional billions in aid for local public transport. In: bundesregierung.de. November 6, 2019, accessed January 15, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Key points for the Climate Protection Program 2030. (PDF) September 20, 2019, p. 10 , accessed on September 20, 2019 (German, "Version according to the Climate Cabinet").
  12. ↑ Regionalization funds : 5 billion euros threaten to fizzle out. In: beg.bahnland-bayern.de. Bavarian Railway Company, December 11, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2020 .