05.16.2022 – 09:30 a.m. Updated 05.16.2022 – 09:59h
What DGT label does your car have? This is a question that is becoming increasingly important, especially if you want to continue driving your vehicle freely through any city in Spain.
The reason is that, as detailed in the Transition and Climate Change Law, all cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants are obliged to implement low emission zones (ZBE) before 2023. That is, in a matter of months. With these measures, the access of thousands of vehicles (the most polluting) to the centers of 152 Spanish cities is limited, as is already the case with Madrid Central or with the areas of Barcelona.
But, what cars are not going to be able to pass? then you can Check which vehicles are going to have limited access. Although, in addition to the general rule, each city council can establish its own additional restrictions and limitations on certain vehicles.
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When are the ZBE going to be implemented throughout Spain?
The Transition and Climate Change Law gives all cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants a deadline to implement this measure until the end of 2023. Specifically, all localities must have these ZBEs in force, at most, the December 31, 2022.
This new measure, which consists of implementing low-emission zones in urban centers that cars without an environmental label will not be able to access, aims to reduce polluting emissions.
Coaches that are not able to circulate freely in Spain
The vehicles that cannot access these low emission zones in any city are:
- Los cars that do not have an environmental label from the DGT. These are gasoline vehicles prior to the year 2000 or those with a diesel engine prior to 2006. As for motorcycles, those prior to the year 2003 cannot access.
This is the general rule that must be applied in all municipalities that implement these low emission zones. But in addition, the law gives carte blanche to municipalities so that they can establish other additional limitations.
This is what can happen with the cars of labels B and C, which initially can access these areas, but may have limitations. Parking restrictions could apply, for example, as is already the case in Madrid.
How many municipalities have to implement ZBE
According to data from the National Institute of Statistics, In Spain there are a total of 152 towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants and, therefore, must be added to this standard. Below you can consult the complete list of the 152 locations:
Albacete
Alcala de Guadaira
Alcala de Henares
Alcobendas
Alcorcon
Alcoy / Alcoi
Algeciras
Alicante / Alacant
Almeria
Aranjuez
Arganda of the King
Arona
Reef
Avila
Aviles
Badajoz
Badalona
Barakaldo
Barcelona
benalmadena
Benidorm
Bilbao
Boadilla del Monte
Burgos
Caceres
Cadiz
Calvià
Cartagena
Castelldefels
Castellón de la Plana
Cerdanyola del Vallès
Ceuta
Chiclana of the border
Real city
Collado Villalba
Old Apiary
Córdoba
Cornellà de Llobregat
Coruña, A
Coslada
Cuenca
Donostia/San Sebastian
Two sisters
Ibiza
ejido, the
Elche/Elx
Cook
Estepona
Ferrol
Fuengirola
Fuenlabrada
Gandia
Getafe
Getxo
Gijon
Girona
Granada
Passion fruit
Granollers
Guadalajara
Hospitalet de Llobregat, L ‘
Huelva
Huesca
Hair
Jaen
Jerez de la Frontera
Leganes
León
Linares
Conception Line, The
Lleida
logron
Lorca
Lugo
Madrid
Majadahonda
Málaga
Manresa
Marbella
Mataró
Melilla
Merida
Mijas
Segura Mill
Mollet del Vallès
Mostoles
Motril
Murcia
Orihuela
Ourense
Oviedo
Palencia
Palma
Palmas de Gran Canaria, The
Pamplona/Iruna
Speak out
paternal
Pinto
Ponferrada
Pontevedra
Pozuelo de Alarcon
Prat de Llobregat, El
Puerto de Santa Maria, The
Puertollano
Reus
Rivas-Vaciamadrid
Roquetas de Mar
Roses of Madrid, The
Ruby
Sabadell
Saguntum/Saguntum
Salamanca
San Bartolome de Tirajana
San Cristobal de La Laguna
Saint Ferdinand
Saint Sebastian of the kings
San Vicente del Raspeig / San Vicente del Raspeig
Sanlucar de Barrameda
Sant Boi de Llobregat
Sant Cugat del Vallès
Santa Coloma de Gramenet
Santa Cruz of Tenerife
Santa Lucia de Tirajana
Santander
Santiago de Compostela
Segovia
Sevilla
Serum
Soria
Talavera of the Queen
Tarragona
counted
Terrace
Teruel
Toledo
Torrejon de Ardoz
Torrelavega
Torremolinos
Torrent
Torrevieja
Utrera
Valdemoro
Valencia
Valladolid
Velez-Malaga
Vigo
Viladecans
Vilanova i la Geltrú
Real Village
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Zamora
Zaragoza
Source: Data from Statistics National Institute.
How to know where the new ZBEs are
To recognize where these low emission zones are located and avoid fines, the General Directorate of Traffic has developed a vertical sign that identifies them. Below you can see an example of this signal.
Label B is included in this badge, but this does not mean that access to all these vehicles will be prohibited. It is an image that serves as an example, but each city has to indicate at the bottom of the sign what the exact limitations are.
In the case of not complying with this rule and accessing with a polluting vehicle, according to the new fines of the Traffic Law, the drivers face a financial penalty of 200 euros.
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