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The Ministry of Ecological Transition has published a draft decree, posted for public consultation until July 9, which aims to change the Crit’Air sticker in order to identify the vehicles emitting the least CO₂ in each class of the air quality certificate. This decision was taken within the framework of the proposals of the Citizen’s Climate Convention.

Crit’Air sticker: additional restrictions to come?

While the text does not call into question the current classification and its six Crit’Air sticker levels, ranging from 1 to 5 and crowned by a green sticker intended for electric and hydrogen vehicles, the proposed modification aims to display the level of emissions of CO₂ on the sticker, for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.

Indeed, the text proposes two thresholds of CO emissions₂ by category of vehicle concerned:

• The Threshold 1 would concern passenger cars emitting less than 95 g of CO₂/ km according to the NEDC standard (less than 120 g according to the WLTP standard), and light commercial vehicles emitting less than 147 g of CO₂/ km according to NEDC standard (less than 175 g according to WLTP standard)
• The Threshold 2 would concern passenger cars and light commercial vehicles emitting less than 50 g of CO₂/ km (according to NEDC or WLTP standard)

According to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, this additional distinction will make it possible to provide communities with a new lever to “decline a service offer”: reduced-price parking, circulation in reserved lanes, etc. Or in other words: allow penalties even more motorists who do not meet the criteria imposed, particularly strict and effectively excluding the vast majority of vehicles currently in circulation.

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