Fine dust sticker/ environmental sticker issue

Tip: Some municipalities and counties 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 mail. You can find the exact regulations on the websites.

• the vehicle registration authorities
  • City district: the city administration
  • District: the district administration

• the bodies recognized to carry out exhaust emission tests (AU), e.g. AU workshops, approved test organizations such as Dekra, GTÜ, KÜS, TÜV, FSP or technical test centres

The issuing offices for stickers are

• the vehicle registration authorities
  • City district: the city administration
  • County: the county administration
• the bodies recognized to carry out exhaust emission tests (AU), e.g. AU workshops, approved test organizations such as Dekra, GTÜ, KÜS, TÜV, FSP or technical test centres

In order to obtain an environmental badge, your vehicle must meet the criteria of pollutant groups 2, 3 or 4.

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

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

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

Depending on the city or district, AU workshop or test organization: usually EUR 5.00 - 8.00

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In most cases, you will receive the badge immediately.

• § 40 Abs.1 Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (BImSchG) (Traffic restrictions) https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=BImSchG+%C2%A7+40&psml=bsbawueprod.psml&max=true
• § Section 47 of the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG) (clean air plans, plans for measures to be taken in the short term, state ordinances). https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=BImSchG+%C2%A7+47&psml=bsbawueprod.psml&max=true
• Ordinance on the labeling of motor vehicles with low contribution to pollution (35th BlmSchV). https://www.gaa.baden-wuerttemberg.de/servlet/is/16507/2_1_35.pdf

• §§ 40 ff. Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (BImSchG)

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

02.09.2024

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.