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A. GELEBART / 20 MINUTES
By "the end of 2021", polluting vehicles not authorized in the low-emission zone of Greater Paris will be fined via video, announced the Minister of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, this Tuesday in an interview with Le Parisien.
"The objective is for the video verbalization to start by the end of 2021. Then that the automated sanctions controls, with a radar, can develop in the wake", explained the minister.
“We are now in an execution and implementation phase, in conjunction with the Ministry of the Interior and the National Agency for the automated processing of offenses”.
"It is not a question of traffic violation, it is a question of public health"
Diesel vehicles over 18 years old and gasoline vehicles over 21 years old (Crit'air sticker 5 or not classified because they are too old) have been banned since July 2019 in a large area covering 49 of the 79 municipalities of the Paris metropolitan area.
More than 70% of the population of the capital region is affected, in a perimeter inside the A86.
But the ban was accompanied by a period of teaching.
The measure aims to reduce air pollution in the long term and limit car use.
In Paris itself, Crit'air 4 and 5 are prohibited from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays.
"In France as elsewhere, we do not like receiving fines ..." commented Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
“But low emission zones are not a question of traffic offenses, they are a matter of public health.
There are lives that are at stake ”.
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