After diesel ban in Munich: chaos around the plaques

Created: 2022-10-28 06:32

By: Julian Limmer

Controlling the diesel driving ban on the Mittlerer Ring will be difficult.

The pollutant class is not recognizable from the green 4-sticker.

Munich – The ban on Euro 4 diesel in Munich is coming, the city council decided on Wednesday (October 26).

This means that from February only diesel vehicles in emission classes Euro 5 and 6 will be allowed to travel within the Mittlerer Ring.

Any ones below must remain outside.

There's just one problem: the green 4-sticker stickers don't tell you exactly which emission class the car belongs to!

The catch is: there are no separate pollutant stickers for the Euro 5 and 6 classes!

The diesel models with these standards also drive around with the green 4-series sticker on the windscreen.

These classes can only be distinguished by looking at the vehicle documents or by looking at the number plate.

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A reader of our newspaper therefore asks how it should actually be checked.

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The district administration department, which is responsible for the control, clarifies after tz request: Instead of the pollutant sticker, the vehicles should only be randomly checked, for example based on the license plate.

In the case of parked cars, it looks like this: Here, the inspectors from the municipal traffic monitoring department will occasionally check whether a car is authorized to park within the Mittlerer Ring.

Diesel driving will soon be banned on Munich's Mittlerer Ring.

© Matthias Balk/dpa

To do this, they have to check each time by telephone which emission class is assigned to a particular license plate.

The consequences of all this for the issue of parking permits are still being examined.

In addition, speed checks should be carried out to determine whether the diesel ban has been violated.

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Of course, all of this is complicated: That's why the city has campaigned several times in the past for the federal government to introduce a blue sticker.

So stickers for the pollutant classes 5 and 6. So far without success.

On Wednesday (October 26), Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) was again instructed by the city council to address this request to the federal government following the debate on the diesel driving bans.

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The ÖDP had submitted the application, only the CSU, FDP and AfD voted against it.

Exactly those parties who had previously complained that the diesel driving ban was difficult to control, said Reiter.

However, the Federal Environment Agency is responsible for new stickers.

However, the federal government, then the grand coalition, spoke out against new plaques in 2019.

"A corresponding legislative initiative is not planned for the future either," says the Federal Ministry for the Environment.

It stays complicated!

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