Whether you live in Paris or are only passing through, all motorists will have to display their sticker. Why ? Because Paris is a restricted circulation area (ZCR), as stipulated in the 2015 Energy Transition Law, and the capital has decided to improve the quality of its air. And for good reason. Every day, not less than 600,000 vehicles would drive in Paris.

6 vignettes depending on the level of pollution of his vehicle

To improve the Paris air permanently, six round vignettes of different colors depending on the level of pollution of the vehicle are installed. Is your vehicle registered before 1997? Whether it runs on gasoline or diesel, it will be prohibited traffic in Paris intramuros, during the week, from 8 am to 8 pm. Same for commercial vehicles from before October 1997 and the two-wheeled vehicles before June 2000. No thumbnail for this category. If they do not have the right to drive all the time, they can park.

Dark blue for diesels registered between 1997 and 2000. This category includes diesel cars and diesel vans registered between 1 ^January 1997 and 31 December 2000 and heavy goods vehicles registered between ¹ October 2001 and 30 September 2006 .

Black for diesels registered between 2001 and 2005. Even if color was a motorcycle registered between ¹ June 2000 and 30 June 2004.

Orange diesel registered between 2006 and 2010 and gasoline vehicles between 1997 and 2005. A motorbike registered between ¹ July 2004 and 31 December 2006? It's the same color!

Yellow for diesel registered after 2011, and petrol vehicles between 2006 and 2010. The yellow sticker, it will be for diesels registered after ¹ January 2011 and gasoline cars registered between 2006 and 2010. A motorcycle registered between 2007 and 2016? We buy the yellow sticker, the same for the mopeds registered from 2007.

Violet for petrol vehicles since 2011. No violet if you have a diesel! This color is for petrol cars registered since ¹ January 2011, motorcycles registered as from 1 ^January 2017 and mopeds to be registered as from 1 ^January 2018. From the purple also for gas vehicles and vehicles rechargeable hybrids.

Green for the least polluters! Electric and hydrogen vehicles are the best students in this ranking. for them the sticker is green.

Rates for a better air in Paris

To obtain this sticker, we file on the Internet on the site certificate-air.gouv.fr and we pay 4,18 € to be awarded the corresponding sticker. Already in force since July ^1, the traffic restriction measures until "teaching" will now be subject to violation. Fines of € 68 for cars and € 135 for heavy goods vehicles will be introduced.