Border checks: IRU fears severe damage
In response to Germany's new entry regulations, the Austrian federal state of Tyrol began to control and throttle road haulage traffic already on the Brenner Pass on Sunday, 14 February 2021. This measure is intended to avoid a gridlock in the Inn valley.
Because of the massive spread of the new corona variants, Germany has ruled that truck drivers must register online for entry into the country before they arrive at the border and also show a negative corona test that must not be older than 48 hours.
Professional drivers entering Germany from Czechia now also require a negative Covid test, which causes problems at the frontier as well. The International Road Union (IRU) calls upon Germany and the EU to immediately reinstate exception rules for professional drivers in cross-border road haulage traffic.
Otherwise, the new measures would damage vital supply chains for millions of EU citizens and businesses and generate enormous costs without any essential benefit for the battle against the corona virus, IRU said. (ben)