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The Federal Constitutional Court said the
complaint was "not accepted for a decision due to lack of
admissibility," a spokesman for the court said on Friday, adding
that the court had given no further justification for its
position.
Hamburg's transport office sent Uber an injunction in July last
year that said its drivers needed special licences to transport
passengers. An administrative court in Hamburg subsequently
rejected Uber's urgent motion against the ban.
Uber customers order and pay for a taxi with its application on
their smartphones. Instead of having taxis prowl city streets
looking for customers, Uber allows smartphone users to summon a
nearby car to pick them up.
Uber had argued its service did not involve professional drivers
but rather private persons who did not require a special
license.
San Francisco-based Uber Technologies Inc, valued at $18.2
billion in a fundraising in June, just four years since its 2010
launch, has touched a raw nerve in many countries by threatening
to open up an often tightly controlled and licensed market.
Uber, backed by investors including Goldman Sachs and Google,
rebuts the criticism and argues it complies with local
regulations.
(Reporting by Norbert Demuth; Writing by Jonathan Gould; Editing
by Thomas Atkins and Mark Potter)
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