The Spanish logistics employers’ organization has set up a web space in which, for the first time, all documents governing vehicle access to cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants are gathered on one site.
With the entry of the year 2023, motorists driving in cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants have experienced the entry into force of the regulations that restrict vehicle access to
the so-called low emission zones (ZBE).
Each municipality is responsible for drawing up and implementing the rules and the various restrictions, taking into account the environmental labels of the DGT, which poses a problem, both for private and professional drivers, because there is no single pattern.
For this reason, UNO, the Spanish organization for logistics and transport, has launched a directory through which it provides companies in the sector with a space in which all
Sustainable Mobility Regulations in force in Spanish municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, with the aim of facilitating the development of their daily activities in cities.
Madrid, pioneer in Spain, or Barcelona They were among the first to incorporate these restrictions, as unlabeled vehicles cannot enter or circulate within these restricted perimeters, and regulations for those that do have labels other than ECO or ‘0’ emissions. Also Madrid or Catalan municipalities such as Rivas-Vaciamadrid and Cornellà de Llobregat, Pamplona, Seville, Badalona and Pontevedra.
However, other cities such as Córdoba, Fuenlabrada, Burgos, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Parla, Algeciras, Alcobendas, Melilla, Talavera de la Reina, Coslada or Ciudad Real t
They still haven’t finalized their rules.
This exclusive and open portal, hosted on the employer’s website (https://www.unologistica.org/ordenanzas/), facilitates access to an interactive search engine through which users can navigate and select the desired municipalities, directly have access to the design or current regulations where all specifications are collected:
range, restrictions on mobility and parking, signage, etc. In addition, to facilitate consultation, the documents are broken down by autonomous community and province and presented in a downloadable format.
In the words of the president of UNO Logística, Francisco Aranda, “as employers of the sector, we are obliged to facilitate the work of our companies in the cities,
assist in interpreting a legal framework which are sometimes far from accessible, but make it even more difficult to carry out their activity in an environment that is already very complex”.
The Sustainable Mobility Regulations provide the regulatory framework to convert certain areas into Low Emission Zones (ZBE), since, as laid down in Law 7/2021 of 20 May on Climate Change and Energy Transition, municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants must adopt before 2023 ,
different mobility plans sustainable in order to reduce mobility emissions, among other things. Although, as can be seen in practice, most municipalities have not yet adopted their ZBE or Final Regulation.
Aranda has asked the administrations to support the policies they are promulgating through specific aid
promoting those measures «such as the renewal of fleets; developing harmonized regulations and supra-municipal regulations; that they make a realistic plan to set up supply points for less polluting vehicles; and that they include a realistic calendar in their regulations,” concludes Aranda.
The implementation of these low emission zones
means that the most polluting vehicles cannot reach it to the center of the cities. In Spain, with a mobile fleet whose average age is over 13 years old, many of the vehicles currently driving through the center of cities will no longer be able to do so.
Only cars with ECO Label (green and blue) -usually hybrid, gas or both vehicles- and the ZERO emission label (blue) -electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids- will be able to access, circulate and park in the LEZs without restrictions.
cars with
Label C (green) -petrol registered from January 2006 and diesel from September 2015- and cars labeled B (yellow) -petrol registered from January 1, 2001 and diesel from 2006- may circulate in all LEZs of any city, although municipal parking restrictions may be phased in -special
in the case of label B-, as in the center of Madrid, where it is mandatory to park in a regulated parking lot before leaving the area.
The rest of the vehicles
Hethe most polluting and named A -petrol pre-2001 and diesel pre-2006- are not entitled to any type of badge as they do not meet the requirements to be labeled a clean vehicle and are the most restricted.
Source: La Verdad
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