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Uber’s France-based in-house legal team has been dealing with two major regulatory overhauls of the mobility sector which cut the available pool of drivers by almost half in a less...
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The rapid expansion and success of Uber has seen it become an integral part of the transport landscape of many European cities, but historically Germany has been a market where the company has faced difficulties in finding the right approach when facing incumbent market players due to a rather conservative regulatory environment covering the mobility sector as a whole. Recently, however, the company has been gearing up for a massive expansion in the country having pioneered a workable model to promote this. The Western and Southern Europe legal team, based between Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Amsterdam and led by legal director Riccardo Falconi (also in charge of EU legal affairs and EMEA antitrust), has been absolutely instrumental in achieving this and is subsequently highly lauded by the company. Falconi explains that this breakthrough was notably achieved by ‘moving into bespoke local models that were fitting with the dynamics of each relevant city while preserving the unique in-app experience as available to users globally. In other words, irrespective of the operational set-up the user experience is exactly the same as in London, Paris or elsewhere – it’s just that behind the scenes the process is different.’ This in turn allowed the company to come to good terms with what can otherwise appear as antiquated regulations which can for example require vehicles to be booked via SMS or telephone only – going against Uber’s usual mobile application-based approach. ‘In 2016-17 we began moving towards innovative “out-of-the-box” models in close cooperation with key local partners with whom we were then able to engage in constructive discussions with local regulators, such as for example in Berlin where we have eventually been provided with full clearance after months of dialogue. Before undertaking this new approach tailored to local needs, we were able to only do a couple of hundred trips per week, and can now cross 100,000 per week in a constant environment’. Uber’s Germany-based legal team is in a process of major expansion and has been further strengthened by the recent relocation of legal and regulatory counsel Johannes Hildebrand from the Amsterdam office as part of overall greater investment in the country as it looks set to expand into other German cities beyond Berlin and Munich. As such, Uber legal has a very real contribution to make to the building of a more forward-thinking German transport sector with plenty of other innovations and key partnerships being undertaken and on the horizon – including its championing of new forms of mobilities, regulatory evolution and an increasing proportion of vehicles being environmentally friendly. ‘We have been among the first to really push for this green mobility in Germany’, Falconi explains, ‘and allow our users to consciously order a green vehicle, usually at the same cost. This has proved to be very successful, with a sizeable amount of trips being now done in Munich with fully electric vehicles. And this trend towards eco-friendly transports can only get better with other cities to follow as well as with Berlin being announced as the very first European city where Uber will be launching electric bikes!’.
