The Oxygen project was approved on Thursday 24 October by the city councilors.This project intends to ban old and polluting cars from the Bucharest roads and introduces a new vignette based on pollution norms.Starting with January 1st 2022, the access of vehicles within the Municipality of Bucharest based on non-euro, Euro 1 and Euro 2 pollution norms will be forbidden.Starting with January 1st, 2024, the access of vehicles with a Euro 3 pollution norm is forbidden.A new tax (vignette) will be applied for Euro 4 from 2021.Scooters and motorcycles, as well as cars that run on LNG (Liquid Natural Gas), CNG (Combusted Natural Gas) and LPG (only Euro 3) are exempt from the provisions of the vignette.Starting with January 1, 2020, the access of vehicles with a maximum authorized total mass of less than 5 tones on the Bucharest roads is restricted daily, from Monday to Friday, except from legal holidays, within 7a.m. and 10 p.m.as it follows:a) for Electric Vehicles, hybrid or cars with the Euro 5 and Euro 6 pollution norm, the access is allowed without restrictions on all the roads;b) for cars with the Euro 3 and Euro 4 pollution norm, access is allowed on all roads in Bucharest only after the purchase of an electronic Oxygen vignette;c) for cars with the non-Euro, Euro 1 and Euro 2 pollution norm, access is forbidden in the Air Quality Action Area (ZACA)*, being allowed for the rest of the areas in Bucharest only following the purchase of an Oxygen electronic vignette.”* The Air Quality Action Area (ZACA) refers to: Piata Victoriei – Bd. Iancu de Hunedoara – Sos. Stefan cel Mare – Str. Polona – Str. Mihai Eminescu – Str. Traian – Bd. Nerva Traian – Bd. Gheorghe Sincai – Str. Lanariei – Calea Serban Voda – Bd. Marasesti – Str. Mitropolit Nifon – Bd. Libertatii – Calea 13 SEptrembrie – Sos. Pandurilor – Sos. Cotroceni – Spl. Independentei – Str. Stirbei Voda – Str. Berzei – Piata Victoriei.Vignette tarifsDrivers who do not have the appropriate vignette will be fined with penalties from 1,500 to 2,000 lei. Cars of public institutions are exempted from payment of the vignette.
Euro normEuropean emission standards (EURO) define the acceptable limits for exhaust emissions of new vehicles sold in the European Union and EEA member states.To check if your car is subject to the project above, please check the first registration date of your vehicle and compare it with the table below. An operational leasing contract has a maximum contract term of 57 months, which means that all current active operational leasing cars at Business Lease are at least Euro 5b or Euro 6 and therefore compliant with the amendments of the Oxygen project, no additional costs. TierDate (First Registration)Euro 1October 1994Euro 2October 1997Euro 3January 2001Euro 4January 2006Euro 5aJanuary 2011Euro 5bJanuary 2013Euro 6bSeptember 2015Euro 6cSeptember 2018Euro 6d-TempSeptember 2019Euro 6dJanuary 2021
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