Crit-Air in France (again)

Or we could all write to our local Euro MP and ask why we can't just pop into our local Post Office and buy one sticker to cover the lot. Get a few bureaucrats to justify their salaries. I could understand it if we where not part of the same economic community???

Richard
 
Flo said:
Does anyone have a link to the site to buy these and how much would they cost. Thanks
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Done this yesterday, cost was €4:11 including postage.
Only use official go site as, others charge a fortune.
Biggest problem for me was shrinking the photo of the vc5, zipped it and then it was small enough.
Mines a 2008 4.5 ton fiat and it gave me a 3 cat. When filling in it said 4, but confirmation came back as 3.
 
Probably find the French do not bother IF they are not going anywhere near the areas the disc is valid for. Most do not drive around the Country but mostly local to where they live..Might be because of the Tolls charges on the motorways. That would put me off driving around the UK if it was a similar toll per miles as theirs are. No doubt in 5 years time we WILL be paying that as well as RFund.
 
gypo said:
Ok thanks, I don’t think I’ll bother :) D
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Getting to be difficult to travel thru France if you don't have a badge only a narrow corridor if they activate the zones, And no telling if a emergency occurs which will make you need to enter one.

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Is this a one-off charge or is it an annual thing?

Can't seem to find any info on that.
 
MJGBrown said:
Is this a one-off charge or is it an annual thing?

Can't seem to find any info on that.
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One off, it's just a cert to say what emissions your vehicle has, AFAIK if pollution rises they will ban certain levels, I'm guessing that if pollution rises very high for most vans it won't matter if you have a sticker you'll still be banned.
 
colinmd said:
One off, it's just a cert to say what emissions your vehicle has, AFAIK if pollution rises they will ban certain levels, I'm guessing that if pollution rises very high for most vans it won't matter if you have a sticker you'll still be banned.
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OK. Bit odd really as they can see that from the car papers. I guess it just makes it easier to spot.

Mind you, it really should go with the latest MOT, to be accurate.
 
Never heard of these before today.

I am new to this game (March this year). I'm assuming from this thread that you need a French issued one for France, a German one for Germany. Are there any other countries that insist on them? We intend to visit France, Spain, Portugal and Belgium this year. Many thanks.
 
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OK. Bit odd really as they can see that from the car papers. I guess it just makes it easier to spot.

Mind you, it really should go with the latest MOT, to be accurate.
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They can't read the vehicles papers throu the windscreen, but they can read the sticker.
 
boski69 said:
I am new to this game (March this year). I'm assuming from this thread that you need a French issued one for France, a German one for Germany. Are there any other countries that insist on them? We intend to visit France, Spain, Portugal and Belgium this year. Many thanks.
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we're all new to this one as it's a developing situation, we have a German and French sticker as they are most extensive (that I know of), there are areas of Belgium (Ghent from memory) and Netherlands are considering it, we've been throu Belgium and around Netherlands over past month and haven't needed anything.
p.s. as an example, Germany have had a green sticker for sometime, apparently they are now considering upping the anti and introducing a blue sticker.
 
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I have a 1996 VW T4 diesel Motorhome.
When I tried to use the similation on the site it came up with
"Your vehicle does not meet the criteria for the award of an air quality certificate."

Looks like I'm stuffed !

I won't be able to go to places like Annecy anymore.

I hope my Garmin updates "The avoid enviromental zones" accuratley!
 
We are on an aire at the coast in Vendee, in the middle of a green zone. We are the only vehicle with a sticker out of 25 mostly French camping cars.
 
This is getting to be a nightmare! If we have a sticker for every European country, including ones like Belgium, where the have different ones, for different area's, then the right hand side of the windscreen ( where they must be attached ), will be full of stickers.
They have different colours, for different countries/area's, so how can anyone accurately check, from the roadside, on a moving vehicle?

As I've mentioned before, my concern is spotting when I can or cannot enter a LEZ, because many are NOT fixed, but change, due to the pollution level, on a particular day. There is enough to keep track of, on the roads, anyway, without this additional issue.

I've currently got stickers for Germany, and France, both different colours and numbers, so there isn't any standardisation.
 
On closer inspection, and looking at the Green Zone App, it would appear that currently that the only place that I cannot drive in France, is Paris.
I did that in 2015 and I won't be repeating that, I assure you!

I don't even need to buy a sticker as it won't give me one in France.

In Germany and Austria, things get more complicated.

This is very confusing!
 
It is strange that the emissions from vehicles is a big issue worldwide, this would have been an ideal situation for the EU to set common standards & have one system that would apply to all countries in the EU. Having to buy different stickers for different countries is ridiculous & confusing. The French ones have the lower emission vehicles ascending 0-5 while the German ones are descending. The whole emissions issue standards/stickers could have been agreed upon by the EU.
 
You mean SHOULD have been agreed upon by the EU, that would be the advantage of a 'common agreement' never mind, it won't catch on :)
 
This post by Spigot reminded me that I had not applied - so I did.

I found the process very straightforward and am happy to report that the certificate arrived today.

Dezi
 
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