A few months of additional respite for owners of vehicles considered polluting.
The entry into force of the third stage of the Low Emissions Zone (ZFE) of the Métropole du Grand Paris (MGP), synonymous with extended traffic restrictions for polluting vehicles, is postponed from July 2022 to the beginning of 2023 minimum.
"The next stage of the metropolitan ZFE on which elected officials will have to decide in the spring of 2022 and which consists of limiting the circulation of the most polluting vehicles at Crit'Air 3, inside the A86 motorway, will only take place not before early 2023,” MGP said in a statement on Tuesday.
This postponement is linked, according to the MGP, to the expectation of returns from the State on two points: that it recognize it "as a territory of experimentation for the implementation of a zero-rate loan in order to reduce the rest to be paid to the most modest households”, which it helps up to 6,000 euros in the purchase of a cleaner vehicle, and the approval of speed cameras to practice “automated sanction control”.
Crit'Air 3 concerns, for cars and light commercial vehicles, petrol vehicles registered before January 1, 2006, and diesel engines registered before January 1, 2011. The two-wheelers concerned are those registered before January 1, 2007. For heavy goods vehicles, these are petrol engines registered before October 1, 2009 and diesel engines before January 1, 2014.
Prohibited in and around Paris
These vehicles will no longer be able to circulate in a large perimeter located inside the A86, which forms a wide loop around Paris, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. except on public holidays for cars, light commercial vehicles and two-wheelers, all every day on the same schedules for trucks, buses and coaches.
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Since June 2021 and the transition to the second stage, private vehicles (cars or two-wheelers) and light commercial vehicles classified Crit'Air 4, 5 and unclassified can no longer circulate on these same criteria and timetables.
Specifically, these are Euro 1, 2 or 3 diesel vehicles, registered before 31/12/2005, and petrol vehicles registered before 31/12/96.
“Already adopted by 231 European cities or metropolises”, the ZFE is recognized “as particularly effective in reducing pollutant emissions from road traffic”, underlines the MGP on its site.
