The restrictions in the Limited Traffic Zone of the Green Belt for Euro 2025 diesel cars and for diesel motorcycles, including micro cars, of the Euro 4 class, are postponed by one year, to November 3. The bans remain – with the activation of the first 50 gates starting from March 2025 – for the other most polluting vehicles. This means that the following vehicles cannot circulate in the Green Belt, from Monday to Saturday for the entire 24 hours, with the exception of midweek holidays: petrol cars up to the Euro 2 category; diesel cars up to the Euro 3 class, both petrol and diesel motorcycles up to Euro 1. All the others will be able to circulate. From next spring, therefore, at the gates, you risk a fine if the vehicle belongs to one of the classes considered to be the most polluting. Generally, these are vehicles built before 2001 for petrol-powered vehicles and up to 2006 for diesel-powered vehicles, which are already largely banned. LPG vehicles and historic vehicles are excluded from the measure.
The regional resolution, approved today on the proposal of the Environment Councilor Elena Palazzo, welcomes the remodulation developed by the Municipality of Rome to mitigate the restrictions, made necessary by the current regional air quality plan. Satisfaction was expressed by the Councilor for Mobility of Rome, Eugenio Patané: “The dialogue with Arpa and the Lazio Region has produced the desired results also in light of the positive data regarding the presence, in decline in recent times, of No2 and Pm10”.
The gates will be activated gradually over the next year: 50 in the spring and another 30 by the summer to reach a total of 143 in 2026. With the activation of all the gates, the Move In mechanism will also be activated and that of the so-called Bonus Smog or Carnet accessi, measures currently excluded in the regional resolution system. In the first case, it is a sort of black box, provided by the Municipality, and to be placed in the car, which allows the polluting vehicle to grind out a maximum number of kilometers based on the vehicle’s emissions. In the second case, however, it is a question of entries for a maximum of 60 days for the first year and 30 for the second, not renewable for the third year.
The objective of the Municipality, illustrated in the attachments to the regional resolution, is to reduce the number of polluting and circulating vehicles in Rome also by encouraging the use of public transport, with incentives for Maas (integrated mobility between scheduled and non-scheduled vehicles) and thanks to ministerial or regional support aimed at changing vehicles. To date, the most polluting vehicle fleet, included in the ZTL Verde bans, amounts to approximately 430 thousand vehicles, of which approximately 133 thousand are diesel engines for which the measure is postponed by one year. Therefore, in November 2025 the plan and also the perimeter of the limitations will have to be updated. “We have already given Arpa the mandate to remodel the recovery plan, which is stuck in 2022. By the end of 2024, the Agency will deliver us the new report on air quality which will be the basis for the next interventions”, underlined the regional councilor Palazzo.
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