Low Emission Zones - Check your vehicle FOR FREE and Sticker Purchase €5 from Post Office

Does anyone know when this starts.

Did you read this article? https://n332.es/how-will-low-emission-zones-be-managed-in-spain/

Further to the original post, you need registration document plus photograph ID (driving licence or TIE) to obtain the sticker.

If you prefer to check to see which sticker you require in English then you can do so here

You can order direct from the site. Cost is 6.50€ and delivery takes a couple of days- that how I did mine.

At the moment the scheme hasn’t started in the local municipalities, they have until the end of the year to implement it.

Lynn

Hi,

I’ve accessed the website and entered my vehicle’s registration. It comes up with the following message… “Without badge. Your vehicle does not meet the requirements to be labeled as a clean vehicle”.

Does anyone know what the implications of this are? Can I drive the car? It is ITV’d until June. Will I have to scrap the vehicle? It is a 2004 Renault Espace diesel.

It just means you will be restricted from entering the Low Emission Zone areas of any place that has more than 50,000 people living there...

NOTE - As and when the schemes are ACTUALLY brought into force.

Today is the official day.... the reality is likely to be different.

You do not have to scrap the vehicle!

So, from LaZenia, I will not be able to drive into Torrevieja? 

Please keep calm, there is nohting definete yet. There is (only) a law regulating how every council has to proceed for implementing a low emission zone, and this will take it's time. The Hight Court overruled not too long ago the low emission zone in Madrid, so it's obvious that others will follow. Furthermore, there will be exemptions (handicapped etc).

Once in practice  if you have not got a sticker including those not eligible for a sticker you will not be able to drive into the low emission zone of any municipality with a population of more than 50k.. So local places that people drive into  the likes of Torrevieja, Orihuela, Murcia, Cartagena, Elche, Alicante, Benidorm etc etc you cannot enter without the risk of a fine. The  zones will be signposted as per all the links above at the entry points.  It affects all of Spain, but we all now how the autonomous communities like to interpret the rules differently 

Except for some of the larger cities, who have been running this scheme for some time, this has not yet been put into practice and the ayuntamiento have until the end of the year to implement it. They haven’t even decided on how big or small the areas will be.

This explains everything clearly and will answer all your questions - specific to Torrevieja 

Lynn

I guess these stickers can only be got for Spanish Reg vehicles. If the law comes into effect in the likes of Torrevieja it’d be seeminhard to police foreign Reg cars