The Hannover Region Health Authority has reassessed the current situation and highly recommends that the Robert Koch Institute's guidelines for major event be observed and implemented. These include comprehensive health-protection measures when organizing trade fairs.

Those requirements cannot be met by Deutsche Messe in such a short period of time. In addition, implementing them would have an adverse impact on the smooth organization of our events to such an extent that we could no longer guarantee that our exhibitors and visitors would be able to achieve their event-related goals.

Deutsche Messe addressed that the health of its exhibitors, visitors, employees and the general public is a top priority for Deutsche Messe. The new date for HANNOVER MESSE is therefore 13 to 17 July 2020.