French City Pollution Sticker

Can a mod please change the title to 'French Pollution Stickers' as it is now in force in other cities.

Thank you.

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Title changed.

Thanks for posting. It is too easy to be caught out by these sort of things and with on the spot fines difficult to wriggle out of.

Soon wont be able to see out of the windscreen for all of the stickers, couldnt a Europe wide scheme be worked out ? Not even avaiable in English yet ??? What are they playing at ?

Isn't there an exemption for holders of a BB?  If so, unless you display the BB how will they know that the vehicle is in that tax bracket? 

This is the official French Government site. It seems that cars with Euro 5/6 engines should qualify for a category 1 (purple) sticker. (best to open in Chrome and use the translate option) However it looks as if on Euro 6 engines in the likes of Motorhome would qualify for category 1 sticker and euro 5 engines would be category 2 (yellow sticker). We might have to wait for clarification on how they treat motorhomes, my comments above are based on what standard vans would be so its likely to be the same. They hope to have a web page for non French vehicles open on the 1st February. We will also have to have confirmed which vehicle categories will be allowed in which cities. If it follows the model of Germany its possible that only the lower (in number) categories will be allowed but again we will need that to be confirmed.

David

Sorry whats a BB ? Never heard of it.

Looking at the towns thinking about introducing the scheme seems to suggest that they will have the principal tourist routes well covered to catch any unsuspecting Brits. 

Hello everyone, 

My name is Thomas and i'm the new Hazel (Travel Information Service Officer) we've had a lot of enquiries today regarding this new Low Emissions Sticker. Just to confirm currently the Vignette is enforce in the cities of Grenoble, Lyon and Paris. 

In Paris you will only need to purchase a vignette from the Crit Air website if you are travelling into the centre of Paris from the Boulevard Périphérique. For Grenoble and Lyon again you will only need to purchase a vignette when driving in the centre of these cities. Currently there are plans to introduce more cities and we will continue to monitor these and will update our website and Travel Advice pages as they are announced. 

I believe also that older vehicles are to be banned from central Paris during certain hours. As I’ll not be driving through central Paris I didn’t look for details.  Once was enough. Not sure but Info may have been from our Government website .

It's the autoroutes going straight through the middle of Lyon and Grenoble where it looks as though I shall need one.