Valence 2026: No ZFE, and None on the National Lists
ZFE-m Valence · France · No low-emission zone here
Source: official source · Verified: 2026-09-27
No. Valence has no ZFE: the city appears on neither the environment ministry's list of ZFE territories nor the national ZFE database, so no Crit'Air sticker, restriction or 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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Requirements
No zone is in force here, so there is nothing to comply with.
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This zone is not in force — no vehicle check applies
Valence (Drôme) has no low-emission zone. The city is absent from France's national ZFE database, so private cars face no Crit'Air requirement, time band or fine here.
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There is no low-emission zone in Valence. France keeps two public inventories of its ZFEs — the environment ministry’s list of territories operating one, and the base nationale consolidée des ZFE, which publishes each zone’s perimeter, Crit’Air threshold and hours as open data. Valence is in neither, and Valence Romans Agglo publishes no ZFE page of its own. No sticker, no boundary, no fine.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Zone type | None |
| City | Valence |
| Country | France |
| Sticker / registration | None required |
| Fine | None — no zone exists here |
| Petrol minimum | Not applicable |
| Diesel minimum | Not applicable |
| Operating hours | Not applicable |
| Status | No zone |
Which French cities the database does list
The open dataset carries the live perimeters for Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Rouen, Rennes, Nantes, Montpellier, Nancy, Reims, Saint-Étienne, Grenoble, Clermont-Ferrand, Angers, Annecy and Annemasse. That is the list worth checking against your route — not a city-by-city search that turns up stale listings.
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If you are driving on from Valence
The A7 corridor puts Lyon within an hour and Marseille within three, and both run zones that do check Crit’Air classes. Order the vignette at certificat-air.gouv.fr — EUR 5.11 with postage, about three weeks to arrive outside France.
For the full picture on driving in France, see our France driving guide. Tyre requirements are covered in France tyre laws.
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.
- Re-checked against the two national inventories: Valence is in neither, and Valence Romans Agglo publishes no ZFE page. The planned Mon-Fri 08:00-20:00 timetable and the EUR 68 figure have been removed from the page, and the emission-zone checker widgets taken off.
- Title, description and introduction rewritten from this page's own data (no shared template wording).
- Re-verified fine (€68) and requirements against France authority portal.
- Confirmed Crit'Air Vignette remains mandatory; 2026 ruleset unchanged.
- Updated enforcement procedure notes after seasonal review cycle.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. Valence is not among the French territories the environment ministry lists as operating a ZFE, it has no entry in the national consolidated ZFE database, and Valence Romans Agglo publishes no ZFE page. Nothing is restricted and nothing is fined.
No. There is no zone boundary to cross and no camera checking Crit'Air classes here. The vignette is worth ordering only if your route also takes in Lyon, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne or Clermont-Ferrand.
Because EUR 68 is the standard French penalty wherever a ZFE exists, and listings copy it onto cities that have none. The two national inventories are the check that settles it.
French law now requires a ZFE only in agglomerations above 150,000 inhabitants that keep breaching nitrogen dioxide limits. If that changes for Valence, the zone would appear in the national database before it appeared on the road.