Greater Paris, Rouen, Reims, Strasbourg, Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Etienne, Nice, Aix-Marseille, Montpellier, Toulouse: these 11 agglomerations are the first French ZFEs.
Acronym that designates low emission zones, which can permanently exclude from circulation vehicles considered too polluting according to their Crit’Air sticker.
In effect for several years in certain cities, the bans have so far only been “educational.” However, the issue of air quality is one of the Government’s priorities and all agglomerations with more than 150,000 inhabitants must have a ZFE in 2025.
Main change expected this year: the first verbalizations. This is particularly the case in Lyon, where this January 1 marked the end of the “educational phase” for the first excluded from traffic: cars without vignettes (cars registered before 1997) and Crit’Air 5 (Diesel registered between 1997 and 2001).
Motorists and drivers of two-wheeled vehicles at fault risk a fixed fine of 68 euros. Truck drivers should expect a fine of 135 euros.
In Lyon, police officers will first carry out checks on parked and moving vehicles. But eventually they should become automatic using radars or cameras, this is what the Greater Paris metropolis plans from 2024.
How many affected vehicles?
Each metropolis must establish its prohibition hours: in Greater Paris, for example, vehicles without a sticker and Crit’Air 5 and 4 vehicles are prohibited from driving on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the area delimited by the A86, that is to say , a total of 77 municipalities and 5.61 million inhabitants affected.
If we look nationally, these early target vehicles become relatively rare in today’s car fleet. Above all, the government and local elected officials tend to highlight the significant aid for less favored households to change cars, and without necessarily switching to electric ones. The conversion bonus, which allows you to receive a subsidy in exchange for the scrapping of an old vehicle, and local aid, for the purchase of a recent Crit’Air 1 petrol vehicle (first registration no later than the end of 2011).
The real change will be more at the level of the Crit’Air 3 ban, which will affect diesel vehicles registered between 2006 and 2010 and petrol models registered between 1997 and 2005, i.e. a total of approximately 10 million vehicles. , still in national circulation level. For Greater Paris, it is planned for the summer of 2024.
But it is also at the local level where it can be interesting to observe the current vehicle fleet.
Our interactive infographic above allows you to look at the number of vehicles, classified by Crit’Air label and by engine, for each French region.
What to anticipate future vehicles finally banned in France: there should be a total of 43 ZFEs in France by 2025.
Source: BFM TV
