Vienna, Austria · Low emission zone
Official name Fahrverbot für Lkw der Abgasklassen Euro 0, Euro 1 und Euro 2 — Verordnung des Landeshauptmannes von Wien (IG-L-Maßnahmenkatalog 2005)
Vienna bans old lorries from the whole of itself. The City states it in one sentence — "Betroffen ist in Wien das gesamte Stadtgebiet, inklusive Autobahnen." — and that sentence is what makes this record unusual in the corpus: there is no perimeter to find, no signposted ring and no inner and outer zone.
If the vehicle is inside the city limits it is inside the ban, and the motorways that cross Vienna are inside it too, which is the part a driver passing through on the A 23 or the A 22 would otherwise assume they had escaped. The rule came in two dated steps and the City states both.
A ban on lorries first registered before 1992 took effect in 2008; then a Novelle of the IG-L-Maßnahmenkatalog 2005 in December 2013 extended the existing ban on Lastkraftwagen and Sattelzugfahrzeuge of Abgasklasse "Euro 0" — which the City defines as those first registered before 1 January 1992 — to Lastkraftwagen, Sattelkraftfahrzeuge and Sattelzugfahrzeuge of Abgasklasse "Euro 1" and "Euro 2".
So three classes are barred and Euro 3 is the first that is not. The instrument is a Verordnung of the Landeshauptmann of Vienna under the federal Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft, made to reduce PM10 and NO2, which puts this record in the same family as the Tyrolean A 12 bans and the Lower Austrian one: one federal act, three Länder, three different answers.
Vienna's answer is the widest in area and the narrowest in vehicle — it reaches every street and motorway in the city, and it reaches lorries. A driver in a car is not in it.
A driver in a van should look closer than that, because the City describes its exemption for Werkverkehr as available to operators whose fleet is at most four Lkw of class N1 or N2, and an exemption written for N1 would have nothing to do if N1 were not caught.
Exemptions exist and are applied for rather than bought: some groups of old lorries are exempt, among them those that can show their emissions are at least equivalent to Abgasklasse "Euro 3", and Ausnahmegenehmigungen are granted by Abteilung 46, Verkehrsorganisation und technische Verkehrsangelegenheiten. What this record does not have is the Verordnung itself.
The City links it to RIS, the federal legal information system, which answers this project with a Myra Security bot check and will not release even its robots.txt (B-057), and we do not work around bot protection. So the hours, the full list of exempt groups, the commencement dates as legal dates rather than as the City's prose, and the fine are absent here and named as absent.
Stadt Wien — Umweltschutz, "Fahrverbot für alte Lkw in Wien", the City's own statement of the ban made by its Landeshauptmann under the Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft: the three Abgasklassen it covers, the two dated steps that created it, the area it applies to, and the exemptions and the department that grants them. Published by the City under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
Nothing in this ban is for sale. The City publishes a prohibition and a route for exemption, not a tariff: there is no day pass, no entry charge and no price at which a Euro 0, Euro 1 or Euro 2 lorry may drive in Vienna.
The one door that opens is an application rather than a purchase — Ausnahmegenehmigungen are granted by Abteilung 46 (Verkehrsorganisation und technische Verkehrsangelegenheiten), for instance for Werkverkehr by an operator whose fleet is at most four Lkw of class N1 or N2, and the City's page for the ban states neither a fee nor a success rate for that.
Austrian administrative procedure generally attaches Verwaltungsabgaben to an application of this kind, but no figure for this one appears on the page and none is invented here.
The City states this ban with no clock at all. Its page gives no start time, no end time, no weekday list and no season — it says which Abgasklassen are barred and that the whole city area including the motorways is affected, and stops there.
That reads as a rule that applies whenever the vehicle is driven, and nothing on the page suggests a window in which a Euro 0, Euro 1 or Euro 2 lorry would be allowed through — but the sentence that would settle it is in the Verordnung of the Landeshauptmann, the IG-L-Maßnahmenkatalog 2005, and that text is published through RIS, which answers this project with a Myra Security bot check (B-057).
We have not read it, so no timetable is encoded and none is guessed. Note also that Austria's separate federal weekend, holiday and night bans for lorries are a different rule under a different act, and nothing here reports on those.
The whole city, and the City says so in one sentence rather than by drawing a perimeter: "Betroffen ist in Wien das gesamte Stadtgebiet, inklusive Autobahnen." That is the entire municipal area of Vienna — all 23 districts, every street inside them, and the motorways that cross the city, which are named explicitly because they are the obvious place a driver would expect an exception.
There is no inner zone and no outer zone, no signposted ring to enter, and no stretch of Vienna where a Euro 0, Euro 1 or Euro 2 lorry is permitted. Vienna is a Bundesland as well as a city, so the boundary of the ban is a Land border: it ends where Lower Austria begins. That matters in both directions on this corpus's own evidence.
Lower Austria has its own lorry ban under the same federal act, made by its own Landeshauptfrau, and its Sanierungsgebiet Wiener Umland wraps around Vienna without being part of it — Schwechat, Klosterneuburg, Korneuburg, Gerasdorf, Brunn am Gebirge and Vösendorf are all on the Lower Austrian side.
So crossing the city line does not end the question of whether an old lorry may drive; it changes which Verordnung answers it, and the Euro classes are not identical. The one thing this record cannot give is the polygon. We have not taken the City's own administrative boundary into the corpus, so the warning here is at city level — which for this scheme is not an approximation but the rule's exact extent.
Stadt Wien — Umweltschutz, "Fahrverbot für alte Lkw in Wien", which states the area of the ban as the entire Stadtgebiet including the motorways
Euro 3, and the fuel is not what decides it. The City writes the ban in Abgasklassen and in vehicle categories and never in fuels: Euro 0, Euro 1 and Euro 2 Lastkraftwagen, Sattelkraftfahrzeuge and Sattelzugfahrzeuge are barred, and the exemption for an old lorry turns on showing emissions at least equivalent to Abgasklasse "Euro 3". A petrol-engined lorry is inside those sentences exactly as a diesel one is.
The City's own definition of the oldest class is a date rather than a fuel as well — Euro 0 is "solche mit Erstzulassungsdatum vor dem 1. Jänner 1992". So no petrol-specific figure exists to report and none is constructed.
A passenger car is a different matter and a different reason: it is not a Lastkraftwagen or a Sattelzugfahrzeug, so this ban does not reach it whatever it burns.
Stadt Wien — Umweltschutz, "Fahrverbot für alte Lkw in Wien", which states the ban by Abgasklasse and vehicle category, defines Euro 0 by first registration date, and sets the exemption threshold at emissions equivalent to Euro 3, without distinguishing fuels anywhere
Euro 3. The City bars three classes and names them: Abgasklasse "Euro 0", "Euro 1" and "Euro 2", so Euro 3 is the first class that may still be driven in Vienna. Euro 0 is defined by date rather than by paperwork — "solche mit Erstzulassungsdatum vor dem 1.
Jänner 1992" — and that is the class the 2008 ban started with; the December 2013 Novelle of the IG-L-Maßnahmenkatalog 2005 added Euro 1 and Euro 2, and widened the vehicle list from Lastkraftwagen and Sattelzugfahrzeuge to Lastkraftwagen, Sattelkraftfahrzeuge and Sattelzugfahrzeuge.
The threshold has a second face as an exemption: among the groups of old lorries that may still drive are those that can show their emission values correspond to at least Abgasklasse "Euro 3", which is the same line drawn from the other side. Two limits on this figure are worth stating.
It is the class the City names on its own page, not the class read out of the Verordnung — the IG-L-Maßnahmenkatalog 2005 is published through RIS, which refuses this project (B-057), so any later tightening that has not reached this page would not be visible to us. And it is a class for lorries: it says nothing about what a car may be, because a car is not the kind of vehicle this rule is written for.
Stadt Wien — Umweltschutz, "Fahrverbot für alte Lkw in Wien", which names the three barred Abgasklassen, defines Euro 0 by first registration before 1 January 1992, states the December 2013 Novelle that added Euro 1 and Euro 2, and sets the exemption at emissions equivalent to Euro 3
We do not have the figure, and the reason is the one that keeps the other two Austrian records' fines empty as well. Breaching a driving ban made under the Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft is a Verwaltungsübertretung under that federal act, not under Viennese law, so the amount is written in the federal statute rather than in the Landeshauptmann's Verordnung — and the City's page for the ban does not repeat it.
The Verordnung is linked from that page to RIS, the federal Rechtsinformationssystem, which answers this project with a Myra Security bot check and will not release even its robots.txt (B-057); we do not work around bot protection. So the sum a driver would pay is real and is written down in Austrian federal law, and we have not read it from an official source we are permitted to fetch.
It is not carried over from the Tyrolean or the Lower Austrian record, not taken from a motoring club or a chamber of commerce, and not estimated.
Stadt Wien — Umweltschutz, "Fahrverbot für alte Lkw in Wien", which states the vehicle categories and Abgasklassen, the area including the motorways, the Euro 3 equivalence exemption, the Werkverkehr exemption for fleets of up to four Lkw of class N1 or N2, and the department that grants Ausnahmegenehmigungen
Stadt Wien — Umweltschutz, "Fahrverbot für alte Lkw in Wien". The operative page: the three barred Abgasklassen and the City's date definition of Euro 0, the 2008 commencement and the December 2013 Novelle of the IG-L-Maßnahmenkatalog 2005 that extended the ban, the area as the whole Stadtgebiet including motorways, the Euro 3 equivalence exemption, the Werkverkehr exemption for fleets of up to four Lkw of class N1 or N2, and Abteilung 46 as the granting authority. The Verordnung itself is linked from it to RIS, which refuses this project (B-057), so this is the City describing a rule its own Landeshauptmann made. The page states its own last update as 22 June 2026 and is published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-18.
This is owed on the country's roads, not inside this scheme. What Austria asks, with the source