Pardubice, Czechia · Limited traffic zone
Official name Vybraná místa – vjezd s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí měst
Pardubice charges for a permit into two places in the city centre, and two is the whole list: ulice Pod Zámkem, and the stretch of třída Míru between Sladkovského and the junction with 17. listopadu and Masarykovo náměstí. Both are in Městský obvod Pardubice I.
Entry is barred by traffic sign; the ordinance only prices the permit that gets you past it. A vehicle up to and including 3.5 tonnes pays 30 Kč for each started day, 400 Kč for 30 calendar days or 4 000 Kč for a calendar year; anything heavier pays 40 Kč, 800 Kč and 8 000 Kč. You choose the flat rate when you register, not afterwards.
Residents and property owners inside the zone pay nothing, nor do their close family, businesses and public-benefit users of property there, or ZTP and ZTP/P card holders with their companions. Emergency vehicles, city buses, care and home-care services, refuse and street-maintenance vehicles, wedding cars and hearses are exempt outright.
Read the two-place list carefully if you have seen an older one: until 1 May 2025 this scheme covered nine places, including Pernštýnská, Zámecká and Klášterní around the castle, and an amending ordinance replaced that list wholesale.
Statutární město Pardubice — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 11/2023 o místním poplatku za povolení k vjezdu s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí měst, as amended by č. 10/2025, both deposited in the Ministry of the Interior's national register of municipal legislation (SPP) and both recorded there as Platné. The watched strings are on the register's result page for this city and this subject area, and they are deliberately three: the count, and one row for each of the two ordinances in force. The wording itself is in the .odt files the register serves at /detail/SPPVHD2FGXLVVK7K/text and /detail/SPPNRJUEWK3D5XT6/text
Statutární město Pardubice — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 11/2023, čl. 5 odst. 1 písm. a): for one vehicle up to and including 3.5 t, "za každý započatý den ... 30,- Kč", or a flat 400 Kč for 30 calendar days or 4 000 Kč for a calendar year. Písm. b) prices a vehicle over 3.5 t higher: 40 Kč a started day, 800 Kč for 30 days, 8 000 Kč a year. The 30 Kč recorded above is the rate for the vehicle most drivers arrive in; the heavier rate is stated here rather than in the value because this record carries one number and the scheme has two. Čl. 5 odst. 2 requires the choice of flat rate to be declared with the registration under čl. 4, and čl. 6 makes the charge fall due when the permit is issued. Čl. 5 was not touched by the 2025 amendment. This source is the register's .odt of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording: the strings watched here are quoted from the act itself, and the register's result page for the same act is watched separately
The ordinance states no hours. It prices a permit by the started day, by 30 days and by the year, and never mentions a time of day. Čl.
2 says where the ban comes from instead, and it is the only Czech ordinance in this corpus that spells out which signs it means: the charge is for a permit into places "do kterých je jinak vjezd zakázán příslušnou dopravní značkou", and a footnote adds that this is usually "zákaz vjezdu všech motorových vozidel", "zákaz vjezdu všech vozidel (v obou směrech)" or "zákaz vjezdu vyznačených vozidel", with a supplementary plate allowing entry once the charge is paid.
Any window belongs to those signs, and a sign is not a document we have read from an official source.
Two places, both in Městský obvod Pardubice I, the city centre: ulice Pod Zámkem, and the part of třída Míru running from ulice Sladkovského to the junction with ulice 17. listopadu and Masarykovo náměstí. That is the complete list.
It is the text čl. 1 of the amending ordinance č. 10/2025 substituted for the whole of čl.
3 on 1 May 2025 — the amendment does not add to the old list, it says "Článek 3 Vybraná místa zní nově takto" and restates it.
What it replaced was nine entries: Klášterní, Kostelní from house number 99 to Pernštýnská, Pernštýnská, Zámecká, Svaté Anežky České, Pod Zámkem, the approach to houses 2669-2672 on Na Hrádku, the same stretch of třída Míru, and the courtyard between houses 2558 and 2337 on Bratranců Veverkových. Seven of those nine are no longer charged places. A record built from č.
11/2023 alone would list all nine and be sixteen months out of date.
Statutární město Pardubice — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 10/2025, čl. 1, which substitutes the whole of čl. 3 of č. 11/2023 with effect from 1 May 2025 (čl. 2). The superseded nine-entry list is čl. 3 of č. 11/2023 at /detail/SPPVHD2FGXLVVK7K/text. This source is the register's .odt of the act, and since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording, so the strings watched here are the act's own
There is no emission test. The ordinance sorts vehicles by one thing only — whether they exceed 3.5 tonnes, which decides the price and not the right to enter — and never mentions exhaust, engine or fuel. No petrol vehicle is exempt for being new, and none is barred for being old.
There is no emission test, for diesel or for anything else, and there is no Czech scheme that sets one. On 15 September 2026 the Ministry of the Interior's national register of municipal legislation held zero acts, in the whole country and over its whole history, whose title contains "emisn" — the stem of nízkoemisní zóna — against 107 for "vjezd" and 4 029 for the control phrase "o nočním klidu".
That zero was never evidence on its own, and cycle 67 read the statute to find out why. § 14 odst. 1 of the Air Protection Act (201/2012 Sb.), read from the ministry's official ELI endpoint in the version in force on 15 September 2026, creates a nízkoemisní zóna by "opatřením obecné povahy vydaným v přenesené působnosti" — a measure of general nature issued in delegated state administration, decided by the rada obce.
This register holds obecně závazné vyhlášky and nařízení, and an opatření obecné povahy is neither, so a Czech low emission zone could not appear here whatever municipalities had done.
What the register does rule out is the money: § 14a lets a municipality set a nízkoemisní poplatek by obecně závazná vyhláška, which would be filed here, and the register's controlled vocabulary of 137 statutory empowerments cites 201/2012 Sb. exactly three times — § 10 odst. 4 (10 acts filed under it), § 16 odst.
5 (241) and § 17 odst. 5 (19) — and never § 14 or § 14a. So no Czech municipality has introduced a low-emission charge.
Cycle 68 read that other collection, and it settles the rest. § 14 odst. 6 requires a municipality that establishes a zone to send the measure to the Ministry of the Environment within one month of announcing it, and the state service catalogue registers the ministry’s duty to publish the resulting list as agenda A1126, in force since 29 May 2021.
That list is a page on the ministry’s own site, and on 15 September 2026 it read "V ČR zatím nebyla v žádné obci zavedena nízkoemisní zóna" — no municipality in the Czech Republic has yet established a low emission zone — and added that the national system for checking a vehicle against a zone has not been switched on, because there is no zone to check it against.
This is no longer an inference from a register that could not have held the instrument: it is the receiving ministry’s own statement, on the page its own service catalogue names as the statutory list. The one restriction the ministry does name is in Prague, where parts of the city bar vehicles over 3.5 tonnes that do not meet Euro 6, and it says in the same sentence that this is not a nízkoemisní zóna within § 14.
We do not publish that Prague restriction here, and cycle 69 measured why rather than assuming it. The ministry points at the city’s own service catalogue for the detail, and praha.eu serves those entries from /api/, a path its robots.txt forbids. The two channels that are not forbidden were then asked, and both answer nothing.
The city’s own register of vyhlášky a nařízení holds 1,049 acts and returns zero for vjezd, nákladní, emisní, nízkoemisní, tranzit and Euro, against controls of 12 for ovzduší, 13 for vozidel, 12 for omezení, 8 for stání and 5 for zákaz on the same instrument; the only two acts it returns for emis are air-quality programmes for 2006 and 2010-2012.
The city’s open data catalogue at opendata.praha.eu holds 408 datasets and returns zero for vjezd, nákladní, emisní, značení, tranzit and Euro, against controls of 23 for doprava and 2 for zóna. Prague’s own sitemaps enumerate 67,796 URLs and none of them is a rule page for it either.
That is consistent with what the ministry says the instrument is: not an ordinance and not a § 14 zone, but a road authority’s act carried on a traffic sign.
No official source we hold states a fine for driving in. What čl. 8 provides for is not a penalty for entry but a penalty for non-payment: a charge paid late or short may be increased by the administrator by up to twice the shortfall, and that increase follows the charge as its appurtenance.
Note the multiple — Karlovy Vary's ordinance allows up to three times, this one up to two, so the figure does not travel between Czech cities. Driving past the sign without a permit is an offence against the traffic sign under the road traffic act, which the ordinance does not cite and whose scale we have not read from an official register. Not estimated.
Statutární město Pardubice — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 11/2023, čl. 1 to čl. 9, read with čl. 1 of č. 10/2025 for the list of charged places. These sources are the register's .odt files of the two acts, and since D-192 the monitor unzips both and reads the wording, so each carries strings quoted from the act it holds
Ministerstvo vnitra ČR — Sbírka právních předpisů, the record page of the amending ordinance č. 10/2025, carrying the register's structured validity field. Platnost reads Platné. This is the act that fixes the list of charged places, so it is watched in its own right and not only through the count
Ministerstvo vnitra ČR — Sbírka právních předpisů, the record page of the base ordinance č. 11/2023, carrying the register's structured validity field. Platnost reads Platné — note that it stays Platné despite having been amended, which is the whole reason the count on the result page has to be watched as well as the rows: an amending act arrives as a new row and leaves every string about the amended act exactly where it was. The field does move here in the ordinary way too: the same result page shows the city's previous ordinance č. 8/2019 as "Zrušeno k 01.01.2024"
Statutární město Pardubice — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 11/2023, full text as the register serves it. This is an OpenDocument .odt rather than the .docx the register serves for most acts; either way the monitor unzips it and reads the wording (D-192), so the strings watched here are the act's own
Statutární město Pardubice — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 10/2025, full text as the register serves it (.odt): the act that substituted the list of charged places with effect from 1 May 2025. Since D-192 the monitor unzips it and reads the wording, so the substituting article, the street it added and its effective date are watched here
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-15.