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Question about Green vignette for cars (Umweltplakette) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Brumefey@sh.itjust.works to c/germany

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Hello, I’ll go to Germany by car next weekend. I have bought the green badge (edit : Umweltplakette) that should be applied on the windshield. The badge has been purchased with the details of the vehicle (license plate, VIN,…).

Question : since I probably won’t go to Germany again in the coming years, can I paste the vignette onto some transparent plastic sheet and paste the plastic on the windshield ? So that I can remove it after my trip, and put it again in a few years for the next visit ? I don’t want to reduce the visibility because of another vignette. I already have the French CritAir, the Swiss, … my windshield starts to looks like those laptops full of stickers.

What’s the risk ? Since I have the vignette legally paid ?

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[–] tobogganablaze@lemmus.org -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Vignettes were phased out in 2003, mate. You don't need one.

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sorry for referring to that green sticker as a vignette instead of the correct « Umweltplakette ». I edited the post. (You don’t deserve the downvotes)

[–] Successful_Try543 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I still haven't the faintest idea which vignettes were supposedly phased out in 2003, as in Germany we've never had any other badges, beside the orange "G-Kat" ones which were the precessors of today's environment badges (and not widely spread at all).