The classification of vehicles through the environmental badge has as its objective aim positively discriminate against all vehicles respectful with the environment and be an effective instrument at the service of municipal policies, both traffic restrictions in episodes of high pollutionlike promotion of new technologies.
In fact, in some cities this environmental badge is already being used to restrict traffic. on days of high pollution, prohibiting circulation of vehicles that lack it. Although the obtaining y placement of the badge is voluntarythis must be done by attaching the sticker to the lower right corner from the front windshield.
To consider
Failing that (in the case of motorcycles)in any visible place on the vehicle. To make the division, the DGT was based on the date of registration of the cars and not in function of its actual CO2 emissions:
Criteria labels
- Unlabeled: Gasoline vehicles before 2001 and diesel vehicles before 2006
- Label B: gasoline from January 2001 and diesel January 2006.
- Label C: gasoline from January 2006 and diesel from September 2015.
- Eco label: non-plug-in hybrids, gas vehicles such as CNG or LPG.
- Zero Label: electric and plug-in hybrids with more than 40 kilometers of autonomy.
A new scenario: all the details
This situation, of course, caused many cars to receive a B label instead of a C or to remain completely unregistered. unlabeled. In this way, a motion of drivers which forced the DGT to acknowledge its error in order to allow rectifications in their classification.
However, This is a procedure that can cost up to 150 euros and must be borne by the owner.when the most reasonable thing would have been for the DGT to apply real emissions criteria for cars, available in the technical data sheet of the same. As simple as applying the Euro standards that each vehicle complies with based on their actual emissions:
Classification of labels and standards according to emissions
- Label C: Diesel vehicles must comply with the Euro 6 standard and petrol vehicles with the Euro 4, Euro 5 and Euro 6 standards.
- Label B: diesel that comply with Euro 4 and Euro 5 and gasoline that comply with Euro 3 standard.
- No Label: half of the national fleet, some 16 million cars that would not be in any of the groups.
Procedure
Currentlyson Many drivers that have started the process established by traffic for that cars improve their environmental labelTo do this, the owner is required to request a certificate of emissions to the manufacturer in one of its dealers.
A procedure that can cost between 100 y 150 euros. Once we have the certificate in our hands, we must go to a Traffic Headquarters to update the technical data in the Vehicle Registry, at a cost of 8,67 eurosas reported The confidential.
After completing these steps and waiting a few days, it is advisable to buy the label again at any authorized center or in a manner online. Finally, the most important step: remove the old label and place the new one. With all this, it should be noted that there is another way of achieve a change of labeling in Spain, but it involves a higher cost and going to a ITV.
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