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Regensburg (dpa / lby) - The implementation of the border closings in the Corona crisis is causing trouble for Bavarian companies.
The Chamber of Industry and Commerce Regensburg, Upper Palatinate Kehlheim, criticized “chaos on the borders between the Czech Republic and Germany” on Monday.
This is causing massive problems for companies.
Supply chains are already disrupted and employees from the Czech Republic are missing. "
Although there are exceptions for indispensable commuters and a transitional regulation that applies up to and including Tuesday, their implementation also poses problems, said IHK Managing Director Jürgen Helmes.
Many companies have relied on it, but it is not being implemented in practice.
"In many companies, the lack of employees leads to sometimes considerable production downtimes and bottlenecks, delays in deadlines or contractual penalties."
In addition, the short deadline by which applications for recognition of systemic relevance would have to be submitted would pose a challenge for companies.
Around 13,500 employees from the Czech Republic work for companies in the area of the IHK.
That is a good half of the commuters from this country.
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The Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, on the other hand, relies on speed: "We absolutely have to keep system-relevant companies and institutions running in Bavaria," emphasized Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU).
"We have therefore asked all rural districts and independent cities to issue the necessary certificates to affected commuters immediately and to notify us of systemically important companies and relevant activities performed there by tomorrow at the latest," he said on Monday.
From Wednesday 00.00 a.m., according to the ministry, the police will only allow cross-border commuters who have a negative corona test and a certificate that they carry out a relevant activity in a systemically important company.
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