Umweltzone Overath
Only vehicles with a green badge may drive in the Overath low emission zone, around the clock, 365 days a year.
- Badge
- Green
- Green badge since
- 1 octombrie 2017
- Area
- 0,42 km²
- Fine
- 100 €
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Where the low emission zone applies
Motorways are exempt
Motorways are not covered by low emission zone bans and may be driven without a badge, including where they run straight through a low emission zone.
Which vehicles may enter
The classification is the same across Germany. It follows the emission key number in the registration certificate (Zulassungsbescheinigung Teil I, field 14.1), not the age of the vehicle.
| Pollutant group | Badge | Diesel | Petrol |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | none | Euro 1 or worse | without a regulated catalytic converter under Anlage XXIII StVZO (so, before Euro 1) |
| 2 | red | Euro 2, or Euro 1 with a retrofitted particulate filter | — |
| 3 | yellow | Euro 3, or Euro 2 with a retrofitted particulate filter | — |
| 4 | green | Euro 4, 5 or 6, or Euro 3 with a retrofitted particulate filter | with a regulated catalytic converter under Anlage XXIII StVZO, or Euro 1 or better |
Petrol cars have only two classifications: the green badge with a regulated catalytic converter, and none at all without one. There is no yellow or red badge for petrol cars.
Vehicles registered abroad
Vehicles registered abroad need a badge too. If the Euro standard is not stated in the vehicle documents, the classification is based on the date of first registration.
| Diesel / Petrol | Euro standard | First registration | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diesel | Euro 1 or older | before 1 Jan 1997 | none |
| Diesel | Euro 2, or Euro 1 + particulate filter | 1 Jan 1997 – 31 Dec 2000 | red |
| Diesel | Euro 3, or Euro 2 + particulate filter | 1 Jan 2001 – 31 Dec 2005 | yellow |
| Diesel | Euro 4, or Euro 3 + particulate filter | from 1 Jan 2006 | green |
| Petrol | before Euro 1 | before 1 Jan 1993 | none |
| Petrol | Euro 1 and better | from 1 Jan 1993 | green |
Exemptions
Under Annex 3 of the 35th BImSchV, the following vehicles may enter any German low emission zone without a badge:
- mobile machinery and equipment
- work machines
- agricultural and forestry tractors
- two- and three-wheeled motor vehicles: motorcycles, mopeds and trikes never need a badge
- ambulances and physician vehicles displaying the "Arzt Notfalleinsatz" emergency-call marking (§ 52 Abs. 6 StVZO)
- vehicles in which people whose disability pass carries the codes "aG", "H" or "Bl" are driving or being driven (§ 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 1–3 SchwbAwV)
- vehicles covered by the special rights in § 35 StVO: police, fire brigade, emergency medical services, street cleaning
- vehicles of non-German forces from non-NATO states on urgent military journeys
- civilian vehicles operating on behalf of the Bundeswehr on official journeys that cannot be postponed
- classic cars with an H plate or a red 07 plate (§ 9 Abs. 1 / § 17 FZV), and equivalent historic vehicles from the EU, the EEA or Turkey
Individual exemptions in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Fine and enforcement
With fees and costs, €128,50 in total.
No penalty points, no driving ban.
The fine also applies to parking in the low emission zone, not just to driving into it.
How it is enforced
Enforcement is done by eye: the police check the badge during ordinary traffic stops, municipal traffic wardens check parked vehicles, and individual cities run targeted enforcement days. Where a diesel driving ban applies on top, every case that lands at the fines office anyway (speeding, red lights, parking) is additionally checked against the emissions class of the vehicle.
There are no entry barriers and no number plate cameras. What gets checked is the badge behind the windscreen.
Buying a badge
- Issuing points
- vehicle registration office · TÜV · DEKRA · GTÜ · FSP · KÜS · emissions-test (AU) authorised workshops
- Cost
- Federal law sets no uniform fee, so issuing offices price the badge themselves. The Berlin vehicle registration office charges €5 over the counter and €6 for an online order including postage; official sources quote a range of €5 to €15.
- Validity
- Valid indefinitely. You only need a new badge if the registration number changes, the windscreen is replaced, or the registration number written on the badge is no longer legible.
- Ordering from abroad
- Berlin recommends applying for the badge around three weeks before you travel, as processing and postage take 7 to 14 days. In Germany itself, TÜV, DEKRA, GTÜ, KÜS or an emissions-test (AU) authorised workshop issues it on the spot on presentation of the vehicle documents.
Other low emission zones in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Information provided without guarantee. The signs on site and the official publication of the responsible authority always take precedence.