Do you have a pre-2000 gasoline car or a pre-2006 diesel car? Then you have a problem. As of January 1, 2025 – just four months from now – you will not be able to drive your vehicle in the municipality of Madrid. Otherwise, in case of circulating or parking in the city, you will have to pay a fine of 200€.
The City Council has recently rejected the request of Automovilistas Europeos Asociados (AEA) to delay for two years the implementation of the measure that will make it impossible for cars without a DGT environmental label to enter the Low Emission Zone (ZBE) in Madrid.
The City Council has recently rejected the request of Automovilistas Europeos Asociados (AEA) to delay for two years the implementation of the measure that will make it impossible for cars without a DGT environmental label to enter the Low Emission Zone (ZBE) in Madrid.
Inmaculada Sanz, deputy mayor of Madrid, has argued that the restrictions were approved five years ago and that in that time the City Council has invested more than one hundred million euros in aid for the renewal of the car fleet.
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Sanz also indicated that the data presented by AEA for the moratorium request was erroneous. The automobile association says it is a measure that affects one in three Madrilenians (1,189,607 versus 3,460,491) and two out of every three vehicles that make up Madrid’s car fleet.
Sanz also said that the data presented by AEA for the moratorium request was wrong.
The City Council argues that the figure is much lower and that most likely the data “come from an open data source where the Directorate General of Traffic has not yet dumped as labeled cars some that do have it.”
The City Council argues that the figure is much lower and that most likely the data “come from an open data source where the Directorate General of Traffic has not yet dumped as labeled cars some that do.”
The arguments against the Low Emission Zone 
The AEA complaint appeals to the economic impact of this decision: “the real economic and social dimension of this ban was not foreseen at the time in the process of drafting and approval of the Mobility Ordinance and therefore the municipal regulation does not comply with the principle of proportionality to which the administrative activity restricting rights must be linked.”
The Low Emission Zone, on the other hand, is not only limited to neighborhoods near the center of the capital, but affects other districts relatively far from kilometer zero of Madrid – such as Arganzuela or Chamartín.
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