The new phase of the Low Emission Zone (ZFE ), designed to limit the circulation of polluting vehicles meeting Crit'Air 3 standards, has been postponed several times. But this time, the cars concerned won't be able to avoid it, and will have to disappear from Greater Paris by January 1, 2025! The metropolis regularly exceeds regulatory air quality thresholds, and these restrictions are supposed to improve the situation. Is your car one of the undesirables?
If it's a diesel car more than 14 years old, or a petrol car more than 19 years old- in other words, a rather old car classified as Crit'Air 3 - it will bebanned from driving within the perimeter of the A86 freeway, which encircles the inner suburbs of Greater Paris, i.e. in 79 communes, on weekdays from 8am to 8pm.
Back in December 2020, the Metropole du Grand Paris had already decided to reinforce the metropolitan EPZ, with a ban on vehicles with Crit'Air 4 stickers. This time, according to the Apur, almost 625,000 cars are affected within Greater Paris, and almost1.4 million in the Île-de-France region.
