If your car has the sticker B of environmental labels for cars, there is bad news. Starting next year, that is, 2024, new restrictions begin. And that’s not all, the situation will get worse starting in 2026. So it’s best to mark your calendar when the new limitations for your vehicle begin.
Have an older or younger car, in addition to its environmental impact, is key to opting for one DGT badge or another. The problem is that, over the years, restrictions have increased. The first affected were cars without labels and in 2023, those with the B sticker have also joined.
However, starting next year the restrictions They go even further for vehicles with this environmental badge. Although 2024 is only the beginning, because later it will get worse for those drivers with a vehicle with this sticker.
For this reason, it is important to be up to date when it comes to knowing these types of regulations or restrictions, and even more so when you are going to move with your vehicle through large cities such as Barcelona and Madrid.
Without driving through Barcelona, what about Madrid?
As of January 1, 2024, vehicles with a B sticker will no longer be able to circulate in Barcelona. At least that is the extent Pending approval, but if it is definitively fulfilled, cars with this badge will have to forget about driving in the metropolitan area of this city. If you look at it another way, there would be less than four months left before drivers could not drive their vehicles.
Among other measures, it also seeks to prohibit cars with the C sticker from circulating throughout the city by 20230. So only those with the ECO or 0 labels would be valid. But what?what’s happening with Madrid?
In the case of the capital of Spain, those drivers with this yellow label on their cars can enter Madrid, although they will not be able to enter the ZBE (Low Emissions Zone). In this Madrid 360 page They explain to you what the situation is in the middle of 2023.
More restrictions in 2026
Not only do we have to face the restrictions that begin in 2024, in just four months, we also have to prepare for 2026. A year in which vehicles with this environmental label could arrive to the same situation as those without sticker (or label A).
One of the great changes that would come from the January 1, 2026three years after the launch of the ZBE, is that the municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants They will have to establish regulations that limit the free circulation of cars with a B label.
If met, many drivers in small towns will be affected by these new restrictions. So the entire group of vehicles with this label B would be closer to those cars without a sticker, since they will begin to have a series of more important restrictions that would completely limit their use.