Tic, tac, tic, tac… time is advancing and the deadline for the new Climate Change Law to enter into force is running out. With it, the regulations will be activated by which only one in four cars will be able to enter 149 municipalities in Spain from 2023.
The Law approved by the Government tries to fulfill the environmental objectives of the European Union. To do this, it focuses on the reduction of polluting emissions derived from road traffic using the so-called Low Emission Zones (ZBE) as the main tool.
The legal text establishes that, at the latest on January 1, 2023, all municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants will have to have authorized areas in which the circulation of the most polluting vehicles is prohibited, understanding as such those that do not have a label environmental of the DGT.
149 municipalities will have to create ZBE in the coming months
The Climate Change Law also establishes that all towns with more than 20,000 inhabitants but that for other reasons exceed the established contamination limits must also implement measures along these lines.
According to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the municipalities in which one in four cars will not be able to enter as of 2023 are these (ordered by autonomous community):
| Autonomous community | Municipality |
|---|---|
| Andalusia | • Alcalá de Guadaira • Algeciras • Almería • Benalmádena • Cádiz • Chiclana de la Frontera • Córdoba • Dos Hermanas • El Ejido • El Puerto de Santa María • Estepona • Fuengirola • Granada • Huelva • Jaén • Jerez de la Frontera • La Línea de la Concepción • Linares • Malaga • Marbella • Mijas • Motril • Roquetas de Mar • San Fernando • Sanlúcar de Barrameda • Seville • Torremolinos • Utrera • Vélez • Málaga |
| Aragon | • Huesca • Zaragoza |
| Asturias | • Avilés • Gijón • Oviedo • Siero |
| baleares | • Calvia • Ibiza • Palma de Mallorca |
| Canary Islands | • Arona • Arrecife • Granadilla de Abona • Las Palmas de Gran Canaria • San Bartolomé de Tirajana • San Cristóbal de La Laguna • Santa Cruz de Tenerife • Santa Lucía de Tirajana • Telde |
| cantabria | • Santander • Torrelavega |
| Castile and Leon | • Avila • Burgos • Leon • Palencia • Ponferrada • Salamanca • Segovia • Valladolid • Zamora |
| Castilla la Mancha | • Albacete • Ciudad Real • Cuenca • Guadalajara • Talavera de la Reina • Toledo |
| Catalonia | • Badalona • Barcelona • Castelldefels • Cerdanyola del Vallès • Cornellà de Llobregat • Girona • Granollers • L’Hospitalet de Llobregat • Lleida • Manresa • Mataró • Mollet del Vallès • Reus • Rubí • Sabadell • Sant Boi de Llobregat • Sant Cugat del Vallès • Santa Coloma de Gramenet • Tarragona • Terrassa • Viladecans • Vilanova i la Geltrú |
| Valencian Community | • Alicante • Alcoi • Benidorm • Castellón de la Plana • Elche • Gandía • Orihuela • Paterna • Sagunto • San Vicente del Raspeig • Torrent • Torrevieja • Valencia • Villareal • Badajoz • Cáceres • Mérida • A Coruña • Ferrol • Lugo • Ourense • Pontevedra • Santiago de Compostela • Vigo |
| The Rioja | logrono |
| Madrid | • Alcalá de Henares • Alcobendas • Alcorcón • Aranjuez • Arganda del Rey • Boadilla del Monte • Collado Villalba • Colmenar Viejo • Coslada • Fuenlabrada • Getafe • Leganés • Madrid • Majadahonda • Móstoles • Parla • Pinto • Pozuelo de Alarcón • Rivas Vaciamadrid • Las Rozas de Madrid • San Sebastián de los Reyes • Torrejón de Ardoz • Valdemoro |
| Murcia | • Murcia • Cartagena • Lorca • Molina de Segura |
| Navarra | Pamplona |
| Basque Country | • Baracaldo • Bilbao • Getxo • Irún • San Sebastián • Vitoria |
| Ceuta | Ceuta |
| Melilla | Melilla |
Waiting for a final rule
At the moment, it is the Town Halls that decide which standards are applied in the LEZs, but soon there will be a national standard in this regard.
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) considers “it is essential to develop a specific standard that broadens and specifies the generic mandate for the establishment of LEZs”.
The objective is to determine “the minimum requirements that these areas must meet in order to provide legal certainty to users, companies and citizens in general through homogeneous legislation throughout the national territory.”
The draft standard includes the hierarchy by modes of transport that must be met when designing the measures necessary to meet the objectives of the low emission zones. They include restrictions on access, circulation and parking of vehicles according to their polluting potential and which will affect primarily the vehicles A (these are the ones that do not have an environmental label from the DGT), and, progressively, to vehicles B and C.
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