Reforms Of The German Law Governing Charging Points

Nine months after EU Regulation 2023/1804 on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure (AFIR) came into force, the national rules in Germany are now also being modified. On 20 December 2024, the German upper house of parliament (Bundesrat) approved the ordinance of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action's reforming the law on charging points. This "amending ordinance" modifies statutes such as the existing German Charging Point Ordinance (Ladensäulenverordnung) and the requirements on the prices for charging vehicles in the German Price Information Ordinance (Preisangabenverordnung) to reflect the new European legislation, since the areas governed by the AFIR became inapplicable when the AFIR came into force due to the primacy of EU law. These now inapplicable rules (especially sections 2, 3 and 4 of the old version of the German Charging Point Ordinance) are repealed or amended by the amending ordinance. We provide an overview of