According to a survey in the EU member States, the European Union (EU) wants to abolish the time change. In this country the Federal Council has approved the project, but at the same time in front of überstürztem Act warned.
The Federal Council welcome the fact that the EU-Commission, the proposal to abolish daylight savings time, it is called a decision . The time change might have been introduced in order to save energy, the effect, however, only very low. At the same time, the time was not ambitious framework for the abolition but very.
according to the EU Commission, is the time in the EU countries on 31. March 2019, the last Time changed. Still, the project is not decided. Until March, the European Parliament and the Council must agree to the Council of Europe.
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However, according to the existing plans, the member States, to permanently adopt winter – time or the normal time can, also on 27. October 2019, turning once again to the clock. It is exactly this pluralism could, however, lead to problems, warns the Federal Council.
He urges that all member States agree on a common standard of time. Each country would define its individual Retrobet time, the “harmful for the internal market and the people”.
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The Federal Council is concerned that it has a negative impact on international trade, the transport and logistics industry, if in the neighboring countries of Germany, the clocks seem to run differently. Also, service providers or other commuters who travel to Work in a neighbouring country would then have to change twice a day is the time zone.
The emergence of isolated Islands of Time in Europe must be avoided. “The Federal Council asks the Federal government to make the decision on the future of standard time in the Federal Republic, in close coordination with the governments of the neighboring States.” In addition, the EU Commission had to coordinate the projects better.
Controversial survey
Large companies such as Deutsche Bahn and Lufthansa were shortly after communicated to the survey, the plans left to look forward to. They expected for the case of an abolition of summer time but also, with a “some lead time”. (Read more here).
In the EU survey were pronounced in August, more than 80 percent of the respondents are in favour of abolishing the time change. However, a total of only 4.6 million people were involved, more than three million of the participants came from Germany. For the classification: The EU has approximately 512 million inhabitants.
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