If you are thinking of entering Madrid with a vehicle without sticker, we have bad news: since January 1, 2024 you cannot move through the capital unless you are a neighbor. And, it remains to be seen, if you can do next year because the intention was to prevent it this year but the City Council ended back.
Nor can you do it in Barcelona at any time. Specifically, a vehicle without an environmental label cannot circulate through the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) from Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. In order to do so, you must ask for an authorization with, at least 24 hours in advance and may not do so more than 24 days a year.
Although there are more low -broadcast areas in Spain (ZBE) and, in fact, we should have restrictions in all municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants. The truth is that only Madrid and Barcelona apply Hard restrictions. The rest of Spanish cities barely restrict access to a small part of them.
In parallel, a door was opened to those who have a car without sticker.
“What if I do historical?”
The reason must be sought in the new Historical Vehicle Regulation, which allows these vehicles circulating through the ZBE … although there are important nuances to take into account.
A historical vehicle for my zbe … more or less
When the new Historical Vehicle Regulation was taken a few months ago, it was specified that there would be no City Council or any other institution that could prevent the movement of these cars.
In fact, the following was specified:
“The new regulation urges the municipalities to, in the exercise of their powers for the regulation of urban roads and for the restriction of circulation to certain vehicles in these roads for environmental reasons, establish formulas in their municipal ordinances that allow circulation to those owners who make a sporadic or non -common use of their historical vehicles.”
However, aware of the implications that this could have, the following was also specified:
“The use of historical vehicles will be occasional and in no case as a means of daily transport to minimize their environmental impact, and the use of historical vehicles to make public transport of travelers or merchandise and for agricultural activities or works and services is generally prohibited.”
For the government, that “occasional use” has a number: 96 days a year. But with this figure an obvious question also arises: how are you controlled these 96 days a year? No one knows it and the regulation itself does not collect it.
Thus, there are those who have had an idea. If I can use the historical car 96 days a year It means that I can circulate eight days every month with the vehicle. It is possible that, if we do not go to the city center every day because, for example, we telework, those eight days a month are more than enough to cover our tickets to Madrid or Barcelona. In fact, if we discount the month of vacation, we almost added one more day to each month.
Taking into account that, right now, cars without label total 25 years in the case of gasoline, you don’t have to go much further back to have a historical vehicle. Of course, you must meet the following requirement, as specified in Motorpasion:
“To have been manufactured or enrolled for the first time 30 years ago, having stopped producing its specific type and being in its original state, without having undergone any fundamental change in its main characteristics or components. As a novelty, it is also required that they are in a correct state of maintenance and conservation.”
That is, whoever wants to access the city center can be made with a car that has been enrolled before 1995. A second generation Seat Ibiza, for example, but it cannot have been subjected to fundamental changes or replace its main components.
That said, can we circulate with him through the great Spanish Zbe?
Well, in Madrid, technically, we can because the Municipal Mobility Ordinance that includes all the information related to Madrid 360 invites us to circulate with such a vehicle. Of course, you have to take some things into account:
- We cannot park in regulated parking areas since no label without label can do it.
- If we access more than 96 times a year (access controls it) we can be playing a fine since when it comes to enrolling it as a historical one, a responsible statement is signed in which we are committed not to move the car more than 96 days a year.
- The fine for not complying is 200 euros (100 euros with soon payment) which is reflected in the law on traffic, circulation of motor vehicles and vial safety its article 76 Z3.
In Barcelona, the matter is more confusing. At the moment, nothing has been approved that allows the entry of historical vehicles in the ZBE of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona in the restricted schedule only to cars without stickers. It is known that it has been working on it but nothing has been completed.
The problem is that, as with the obligation to have a ZBE in all municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants, the new regulation urges the municipalities to specify in their mobility ordinances the passage to these vehicles through their restricted areas but does not establish a term or a punishment if this is not carried out.
When lifting Zbe’s own we have already lived what happens when this happens. A good part of the municipalities of more than 50,000 inhabitants have not carried out these changes and an important part has barely restricted access to a few streets or, like Seville, to areas of very little affectation by traffic.
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