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@pascalo
For what it's worth, the whole legal situation causes great grief amongst sport cyclists in germany as well. For once with clipless it's impossible to comply with the regulations in terms of pedal reflectors, but also the state of the cyclepaths is often detrimental to the condition of a 4k EUR carbon road bike.
The possibility that someone comes up to you, measures the position of the rear reflector and finds it higher than the required 60cm ground height, therefore fines you a tenner, is always there, but very often unrealistic.
One thing I can tell you from the outset is that if they find stuff wrong with your bike, or you're going down the wrong cyclepath or whatever, ALWAYS say you didn't know. In germany fines multiply if you did something "mit Vorsatz" (on purpose).