Apply for an environmental badge / fine dust sticker for the environmental zone
The entire area within the Mittlerer Ring is an environmental zone. You may only drive in the low emission zone with a valid green sticker.
Description
In Munich, the entire area within the Mittlerer Ring is a so-called low emission zone. You are only allowed to drive in the low emission zone if you have a valid green sticker on your vehicle. The Mittlerer Ring is also part of the low emission zone: Map of the low emission zone
The sticker is not only valid for Munich, but for all low emission zones in Germany. The green sticker is only valid for the vehicle with the licence plate number shown on the sticker. Electric vehicles also require a green sticker.
Important
- The sticker must be clearly visible on the inside of the windscreen.
- All cars, buses, motorhomes and lorries wishing to enter the low emission zone require a sticker.
- Residents, commuters, removal vans, tradesmen and foreign vehicles wishing to enter the low emission zone also need a sticker.
- Violations of the sticker requirement cost an 80 euro fine.
Stricter entry and transit regulations apply for diesel vehicles: exemption authorisation to enter the low emission zone
Prerequisites
You can only obtain the fine particle sticker from the vehicle registration office as part of a registration or transfer. In all other cases, you can obtain a green environmental badge from all vehicle inspection organisations (such as DEKRA, GTÜ, KÜS or TÜV) as well as from all garages that are authorised to carry out emissions tests.
Required documents
- Registration certificates part I (vehicle licence)
Questions & Answers
Yes, tourists and business travellers also need a sticker if they drive their car into the low emission zone.
Yes, foreign vehicles also need a sticker to enter the low emission zone.
From abroad, stickers can be ordered online from the technical inspection organisations DEKRA, GTÜ and TÜV. Further information can be found on the websites of these organisations.
Quad bikes that are registered as cars require a sticker. If your quad bike is registered as a motorbike or agricultural and forestry machine, you do not need a sticker. Trikes are three-wheeled vehicles and do not require a sticker.
no, the same regulations apply to motorhomes as to all other motor vehicles.
Legal basis
- Clean air plan for the City of Munich
- § Section 47 (5a) of the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG)
- EU Directive 96/62/EC
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung II Fahrzeugzulassungs- und Fahrerlaubnisbehörde
Internet
Phone
Postal address
Landeshauptstadt München
Kreisverwaltungsreferat
Hauptabteilung II Fahrzeugzulassungs- und Fahrerlaubnisbehörde
Eichstätter Straße 2
80686 München
Address
Eichstätter Straße 2
80686 München
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