Montauban Has No ZFE in 2026: No Crit'Air Sticker Needed
Zone à Faibles Emissions · France · Announced but never introduced
Source: official source · Verified: 2026-09-27
There is no low-emission zone in Montauban. The ministry's register lists 25 French ZFEs and Montauban is not one of them, so no Crit'Air sticker, Euro threshold or emission fine applies.
Didn’t France abolish its low-emission zones?
No — the repeal never took effect. Parliament did vote in April 2026 to abolish France’s ZFEs, which is why so many guides and news reports say they are gone. The Conseil constitutionnel struck that article down on 21 May 2026 (décision n° 2026-903 DC), so the ZFE provisions of the code général des collectivités territoriales (articles L. 2213-4-1 and L. 2213-4-2) stayed on the books.
One caveat most coverage misses: the article was annulled on procedure, not on its merits — the Council held it was a “cavalier législatif”, an amendment with no link to the bill it was attached to (Constitution, art. 45). Parliament can pass the same repeal again in a properly related bill, so this is settled for now rather than settled for good. Read the decision.
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Montauban does not have a low-emission zone. The Ministry for Ecological Transition names the 25 ZFEs in mainland France and Montauban is not one of them — nor is it on the map as a zone still to be created. No Crit’Air sticker is required to drive here, no Euro standard is checked, and no emission fine exists.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Low-emission zone | None |
| Crit’Air sticker | Not required in Montauban |
| Euro threshold | None |
| Enforcement hours | None |
| Emission fine | None |
| Status | Not in the national register of 25 ZFEs |
Why Montauban has no zone
Montauban sits in Tarn-et-Garonne, well under the 150,000-inhabitant threshold that drove the national ZFE rollout, and its agglomeration has never been listed as a zone in force or in preparation.
French ZFEs were built on two legal triggers: repeated breaches of air-quality limits, and the size of the agglomeration. The ministry states that, thanks to improving air quality, only Paris and Lyon are now covered by the mandatory restriction calendar. Montauban falls outside both the list of 25 active zones and the set of zones still to be created.
Where you do need the sticker
The Crit’Air vignette costs EUR 5.11 including postage from certificat-air.gouv.fr and lasts the life of the vehicle. It is worth having if your route touches any of the 25 ZFE cities. From Montauban the nearest one is Toulouse, 50 km south, which restricts Crit’Air 4 and unclassed cars.
If you see a sign anyway
Low-emission signs in France carry the Crit’Air logo and a list of admitted classes. A restriction on entering a pedestrian street, a historic centre or a bus lane is a different rule entirely and has nothing to do with emissions — those are ordinary traffic signs and they apply to every vehicle regardless of Euro class.
Recent changes to this page
- Crit'Air sticker price corrected to EUR 5.11 for a foreign-registered car (EUR 3.108 certificate + EUR 2.00 postage, certificat-air.gouv.fr price service); EUR 3.85 applies only to French plates.
- Corrected: Montauban has no ZFE. The ministry's ZFE page names the 25 zones in force - <<Angers, Annecy, Annemasse, Bordeaux, Caen, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Le Havre, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Nimes, Paris, Pau, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Saint-Etienne, Strasbourg, Toulouse>> - and Montauban appears in neither that list nor the map of zones still to be created. The Crit'Air requirement, Euro 5 diesel floor, 08:00-20:00 hours and EUR 68 fine previously published here have been removed, and the zone checkers taken off the page.
- Title, description and introduction rewritten from this page's own data (no shared template wording).
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. The Ministry for Ecological Transition lists 25 low-emission zones in mainland France and Montauban is not among them, nor is it marked as a zone still to be created.
Not for Montauban itself. You do need one for any of the 25 French cities that run a ZFE, so if your route continues to Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lyon or Paris, order it before you travel.
No. An emission-zone penalty requires a zone; with none in force here, no vehicle can be fined on emission grounds, whatever its Euro class or age.