{
  "id": 17767067,
  "title": "Energy: Secret draft law: This is what the government's fuel price cap is supposed to look like",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/energie-geheimer-gesetzentwurf-so-soll-der-spritpreisdeckel-der",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-02T07:32:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/energie-geheimer-gesetzentwurf-zeigt-wie-der-spritpreisdeckel-aussehen-soll/100266485.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "German Economics Minister Katherina Reiche has outlined plans for a fuel price cap. The federal government and states agreed to introduce a nationwide cap to limit high petrol and diesel prices following the Iran war. A draft law from the Federal Ministry of Economics would create a legal basis for the cap, but would not automatically introduce it. The cap could be introduced if petrol and diesel prices exceed average EU price rises by over 5 percentage points for three consecutive weeks, with separate caps for petrol and diesel. The law is set to come into force on January 1, 2027.",
  "summary": "Minister Reiche introduces the price cap for gasoline and diesel; the law is exclusively available to Handelsblatt. However, there are concerns about the supply - thus many exceptions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}