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Paris - Access Regulation
Warning! Only buy stickers from the national french ministry website, linked below. Other sites are often much more expensive, if they provide you with a valid sticker at all. Stickers can be bought (also by foreigners) from the national French Ministry. The very well made and easy to understand website is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. A sticker called Certificats qualité de l’air = 'Crit'Air' is mandatory for all vehicles if they want to enter a French
Look for more information under 'National Scheme' further down on this page. During certain times vehicles over 7.5 tonnes are not allowed to drive into Paris, see below for details. Certain streets are also closed to traffic, see Paris LEZ page. HGV > 7.5 tonnes Access regulation  key: black line is outer boundary of Paris Yes, are affected. Driving into Paris: Monday 06:00 – 10:00 Saturday 22:00 – 24:00 Sunday 00:00 – 24:00 days before public holidays 22:00 – 24:00 Public holidays 00:00 – 24:00 days after public holidays 06:00 – 10:00 Driving out of Paris: Friday 16:00 – 21:00 Saturday 10:00 – 18:00; 22:00 – 24:00 Sunday 00:00 – 24:00 Days before public holidays 16:00 – 24:00 Public holidays 00:00 – 24:00 Police None Vehicles transporting the following goods have permanent exemption that need no special authorisation: • livestock, perishable products and foods • beet pulps, during the beet campaign period • agricultural products, during the harvest period • newspapers • industrial gamma radiography equipment • trucked air freight • fireworks • LPG and CNG (gaseous hydrocarbons in a liquefied mixture or petroleum products) destined for the holding of properly authorised sports competitions • medical gases, hospital waste, linen and goods necessary for the functioning of public or private healthcare establishments • transportation linked to the assembly and dismantling of installations used for economic, sporting, cultural, educational or political events • Booths on markets. Exceptional short-term exemptions can be issued by the Paris authorities. Contact them through here • dealing with the consequences, including economic consequences, of a crisis, such as a natural disaster, or exceptional natural or climate-related events or phenomena, such as drought, flooding, snowfalls • preventing a risk linked to a serious accident or disaster likely to pose a risk to life or to the integrity of persons, property or the environment Individual short term exemptions: • An essential and urgent transport because of an unforeseen event such as the breakdown of an electricity supply network, a hospital heating system or a fractured water pipe • waste transport for the removal of waste from tips and slaughterhouses; • transport of dangerous goods intended for loading or from emergency unloading in maritime ports • procurement of fuel to motorway service stations and of aircraft fuel to airports by tankers • supplying a distribution centre threatened with shortages Individual long term exemptions: • vehicles transporting goods necessary for the continuous operation of certain services or production units • vehicles destined to help perform public services or emergency services in response to immediate collective needs • vehicles supplying clean linen and evacuating dirty linen to/from hotel complexes with a cumulative capacity of 1,000 bedrooms and over ZCR (zone à circulation restreinte)/ Les restrictions de circulation |
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