To guarantee air quality in urban areas, the State plans to deploy the repressive arsenal. The government on Tuesday sketched out the principle of automated controls to penalize excessively polluting vehicles by the second half of 2024,
Currently, 11 cities have already set up low emission zones (ZFE) for polluting vehicles, including Paris and its inner suburbs, where Crit’Air 4 and 5 theoretically no longer have the right to drive.
“We must do our utmost to ensure that automated sanction control is developed as quickly as possible”, insisted the Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, calling for controls to be carried out in the meantime, while no sanction has been taken for the instant.
Violators risk fines
Will there be gates or cameras to carry out these automated checks? The Minister for Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, assures that the “technical characteristics of the projects selected will be presented when they are known”.
Offenders will face a class 3 fine, i.e. a fixed fine of 68 euros, the ministry said.