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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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[–] Successful_Try543 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

@Brumefey@sh.itjust.works
Unfortunately not:

If you drive into an environmental zone and have a green sticker on which the number plate is already entered and carry it in the car or place it visibly behind the windscreen when parking, can you be fined in this case? What is the legal situation in this case?

The regulation for displaying the environmental sticker is as follows:

To identify a motor vehicle, the sticker must be clearly visible on the inside of the windscreen. The sticker must be designed and affixed in such a way that it self-destructs when removed from the windscreen (source: 35.Verordnung zur Durchführung des Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetzes).

Carrying and improperly affixing the environmental sticker can result in a fine.

https://www.umweltplakette.org/fragen-und-antworten

It has been reported in the media, that people were fined, who had the badge attached to a piece of a broken windscreen after it had been replaced.

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

Okay, thank you. I’ll not risk 100 eur of fine so I’ll fix it correctly. That legislation is so dumb…

[–] Successful_Try543 5 points 1 month ago

That legislation is so dumb…

Seconded.