According to a media report, the 3G rule in long-distance trains proposed by the federal government is about to end.
The newspaper Bild reported in its Monday edition that the result of the test procedure led by Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) was that the measures were “not feasible”.
According to Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU), the topic is off the table.
According to the regulation, only vaccinated, recovered and tested people are allowed to travel by train.
Health Minister Spahn said on Sunday on the broadcaster Bild TV: "I don't see it coming." This is also the result of an examination by the specialist departments that Scheuer commissioned.
The question was whether such a rule had a legal basis, whether it was practicable and feasible and whether it was infectiously necessary.
Who controls?
According to the picture, the ministries of transport, health and the interior were unanimously opposed to the government's plan.
In the SPD-led Ministry of Justice, there were also concerns about a 3G obligation on trains.
In the Ministry of Transport, an introduction was viewed critically from the start.
The main reason was the question of monitoring compliance with the 3G rule on trains.
Klaus-Dieter Hommel, Chairman of the Railway and Transport Union (EVG), said to Bild: "Our arguments were obviously taken into account - and thus an unreasonable burden on the train crews was prevented."
According to a representative survey by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the newspaper Handelsblatt, however, the 3G regulation met with approval from almost two-thirds of citizens in view of the increasing number of corona cases.