Motor vehicle: fine dust sticker
Performance specification
Air quality management plans exist for areas with poor air quality. Clean air plans contain measures to improve air quality. Environmental zones are one possible measure of such clean air plans. Environmental zones reduce particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide pollution. Vehicles with high pollutant emissions are not allowed to drive in environmental 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 classification of your vehicle into one of the pollutant groups depends on the emission code numbers. You will find these 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.
Which documents are required?
Vehicle registration document (for older vehicles) or registration certificate part I (for newer vehicles)
Legal basis
What else should I know?
If you are planning to drive into an environmental zone, try to buy a fine dust sticker/ environmental sticker 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 into the low emission zone.
Who do I need to contact?
The stickers are issued by the registration office of your district or independent city (main place of residence) as well as by all offices that are authorised to carry out the exhaust emission test. In addition to the test centres of the monitoring organisations (e.g. TÜV, Dekra), these are also many vehicle workshops.