the exemption for polluting autos within the ZFE prolonged till the top of 2026 | EUROtoday

The Greater Paris Metropolis (MGP) introduced, Monday, December 22, the one-year extension of the exemption system for essentially the most polluting autos circulating in low-emission zones (ZFE), in addition to the inspection exemption.

ZFEs, arrange in 2019 to restrict air air pollution and its results on well being, stay in power in a number of city areas in France, regardless of the vote to abolish them in May by the National Assembly.

Since the beginning of 2025, that of Greater Paris has excluded from its perimeter – which incorporates 77 municipalities out of the 131 within the metropolis – motorists holding a Crit’Air 3 automobile (air high quality certificates), that’s to say diesel autos registered earlier than 2011 and gasoline vehicles earlier than 2006.

24-hour ZFE go for 24 days

As has been the case since January 2025, the motorists involved will be capable of profit from a 24-hour ZFE Pass for 24 days till the top of 2026 to journey freely within the ZFE, along with weekends and public holidays, i.e. 100 and thirty-nine days per 12 months in complete. There “pedagogical period” of 1 12 months, throughout which no sanctions are utilized, can also be prolonged till December 2026, specifies the MGP in a press launch.

Since January 2025, almost 38,000 passes have been awarded, and three,900 exemptions granted, for entry to medical care, working shifts or coaching.

Greater Paris can also be persevering with its support to motorists to be able to change outdated autos with much less polluting autos, whereas the federal government has eradicated support for reconversion and the ecological bonus has fallen. Up to 10,000 euros of support may be allotted for the acquisition of a brand new automobile, together with 6,000 from MGP.

As a part of the “simplification” invoice, the Assembly voted in May 2025 to abolish the ZFEs, on the initiative of the Republicans (LR) and the National Rally, however this elimination has not accomplished its legislative course of, and the foundations proceed to use.

“The tools we are renewing offer concrete solutions (…) to allow time for adaptation and appropriation of the measure, in order to guarantee a responsible and reasonable ZFE. The public health of residents remains our priority”declared the president (LR) of the MGP, Patrick Ollier, including that it remained “However, very attentive to the evolution of the national legislative and regulatory framework”.