Greater Paris is going to ban old diesel cars from next summer
![A general view shows the Eiffel tower, construction site's cranes and the Paris skyline March 17, 2014. France deployed hundreds of police in Paris on Monday to enforce the most drastic curbs on car use in 20 years as authorities sought to reduce health-endangering pollution days before town hall elections. Amid concerns of a worsening air quality after a week when unseasonally balmy weather boosted pollution, public transport was free of charge while drivers with even-numbered licence plates were told to leave their cars at home of face fines. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE - Tags: TRANSPORT ENVIRONMENT) - PM1EA3H15MP01](https://assets.weforum.org/article/image/large_atn_TGFmr3vQU4XfUp_kLUFjSYyAjsSmOdvBLuCbHqk.jpg)
The move is part of wider council plans to gradually tighten car regulations. Image: REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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The Greater Paris region will become a low-emission zone from next summer, which will limit the circulation of old diesel cars, the regional authority decided on Monday.
The Metropole du Grand Paris council said on its Twitter feed it had voted to ban diesel cars registered before Dec. 31, 2000 from the area within the A86 second ring-road, which includes Paris and 79 municipalities around it, a region with 5.61 million inhabitants.
The ban will use France’s new “Crit’Air” vignette system, which identifies cars’ age and pollution level with colour-coded stickers. Cars with the Crit’Air 5 sticker (1997 to 2000-registered diesels) as well as cars without a sticker will be banned.
The council plans to gradually tighten regulations in order to allow only electric or hydrogen-fuelled cars on Greater Paris roads by 2030. In central Paris, pre-2000 diesels have been banned since July 2017.
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Fifteen French metropolitan areas including Lyon, Nice, Aix-Marseille and Toulouse last month agreed to install or reinforce low-emission zones by 2020. The French government hopes this will prevent European Union sanctions over non-respect of European air quality standards.
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