Motor vehicle: Fine dust sticker

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If you want to drive in an environmental zone, you need a fine dust sticker/environmental sticker. You can obtain information here.

  • Service description

    There are clean air plans for areas with poor air quality. Clean air plans contain measures to improve air quality. Low emission zones are one possible measure in such clean air plans. Low emission zones reduce particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide pollution. Vehicles with high pollutant emissions are not allowed to drive in low emission zones.

    If you want to drive your vehicle in such an environmental zone, you must purchase a fine dust sticker/environmental sticker. The sticker is available in three different colours, each of which is assigned to a pollutant group. The categorisation of your vehicle into one of the pollutant groups is based on the emission code numbers. These can be found in the vehicle documents.

    Note: A separate traffic sign indicates the environmental zones. The additional sign shows the colours of the stickers that allow vehicles to drive freely in the specific environmental zone.

  • Procedure

    Tip: Some urban and rural districts provide online services. You can use these to order an environmental badge. You pay by direct debit, bank transfer or credit card. The sticker will be sent to you by post. The exact regulations can be found on the websites.

  • Prerequisites

    To obtain an environmental badge, your vehicle must fulfil the criteria of pollutant groups 2, 3 or 4.

    You cannot obtain a sticker for vehicles in pollutant group 1. These are

    • petrol engines without regulated catalytic converter and
    • older diesel vehicles with emission standard Euro 1 or worse.

  • Which documents are required?

    Vehicle registration certificate (for older vehicles) or registration certificate part I (for newer vehicles)

  • What fees are incurred?

    Depending on the city or district, AU workshop or testing organisation: usually EUR 5.00 - 8.00

  • What deadlines do I have to observe?

    none

  • Processing time

    none

    In most cases, you will receive the sticker immediately.

  • Legal basis

  • What else should I know?

    If you are planning to drive into an environmental zone, endeavour to purchase a fine dust sticker/environmental badge as early as possible. If there is a delay and you do not have a fine dust sticker/environmental badge, you will not be allowed to drive in the environmental zone.

  • Typing

    2/3

  • Library entry status

    5

Who should I contact?

The stickers are issued by the registration office of your district or city (main place of residence) as well as by all bodies authorised to carry out exhaust emission tests. In addition to the test centres of the monitoring organisations (e.g. TÜV, Dekra), this also includes many garages.

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