The vehicles concerned are those classified Crit’Air 3, light cars and light utilities registered before January 1, 2006, and diesel engines registered before January 1, 2011.
Le Monde with AFP
The vehicle owners classified “criterion 3” get at least six months of respite. Several thousand vehicles were to be forbidden to roll in Paris and around the capital, in a zone delimited by the motorway 86 (A86), from the month of July.
But the entry into force of the third stage of the low-emission zone (ZFE) of the Greater Paris metropolis (MGP), synonymous with extended traffic restrictions on new polluting vehicles, is postponed from July 2022 to Start 2023 at least.
“The next step in the metropolitan ZFE on which the elected officials will have to pronounce in the spring of 2022 and which consists in limiting the circulation of the most polluting vehicles to the Crit’air 3, inside the A86 motorway, will not intervene before the beginning 2023 “, said Tuesday 1 er February The MGP in a communiqué .
This postponement is linked, according to the metropolis, pending returns from the state over two points: that it recognizes it “as a territory of experimentation for the implementation of a zero interest loan In order to reduce the rest to pay the most modest households “, which it helps up to 6,000 euros in the purchase of a cleaner vehicle, and the approval of the radars to practice” control automated sanction “.
The Crit’Air 3 concerns, for cars and light utilities, the petrol vehicles registered before the 1 January 2006, and the diesel engines registered before the 1 er January 2011. The two-wheelers concerned are those registered before the 1 January 2007. For heavy goods vehicles, these are petrol engines registered before the er October 2009 and diesel before the 1 er January 2014.
Vehicles prohibited in and around Paris
Once the measure is implemented, these vehicles will no longer be able to circulate in a wide perimeter located inside the A86, which forms a wide loop around Paris, the week from 8 am to 20 hours except days Holidays for cars, light and two-wheeled utilities, every day on the same hours for heavyweights, buses and coaches.
Since June 2021 and the passage to the second stage, the particular vehicles (cars or two-wheeled) and light-class light utilities, 5 and unclassified can no longer circulate on these same criteria and schedule. In concrete terms, these are Euro 1, 2 or 3 diesel vehicles, registered before December 31, 2005, and petrol vehicles registered before December 31, 1996.
“Already adopted by 231 European cities or cities”, the ZFE is recognized “as particularly effective in reducing emissions of pollutants from road traffic”, reminds the MGP on its site.