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Vienna / Berlin (dpa) - Because of the new German entry rules, the Austrian state of Tyrol wants to throttle truck traffic from Italy as early as Sunday in order to prevent extreme backlogs and a traffic collapse in the Inn Valley.
«We will not allow Tyrol to become Europe's parking lot.
For this reason, an ordinance is being issued in coordination with the federal government, which enables us to carry out checks at the burner, ”declared Tyrolean Governor Günther Platter and Regional Transport Minister Ingrid Felipe on Saturday.
The background is therefore the German requirement that truck drivers are already registered online for entry in advance, have the relevant documents and also carry a negative Covid test that is not older than 48 hours.
According to Platter, this is unlikely to be fully known to all truck drivers on Sunday.
Therefore, Austria will check the exit requirements from Tyrol to Germany as soon as they enter Tyrol on the Brenner.
According to the information, around 4,000 to 5,000 trucks use the Inntal motorway near Kufstein within 24 hours to transport goods.
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Stricter entry rules come into force on Sunday night at the borders with the Czech Republic and the Austrian state of Tyrol.
For fear of the more contagious variants of the corona virus that are widespread there, strict controls are carried out at the corresponding border crossings in Bavaria and Saxony.
According to a regulation by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, only Germans and foreigners with a residence and residence permit in Germany are allowed to enter the affected areas.
There are exceptions for doctors, nurses and geriatric nurses as well as for truck drivers and seasonal agricultural workers.
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