Znojmo, Czechia · Heavy vehicle ban
Official name Vybraná místa – vjezd vozidel nad 3,5 t do historického jádra
Znojmo's old town is closed by traffic sign to motor vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, and the town's ordinance sets what a permit to bring one in costs.
A car is never in this scheme at any hour: the whole ordinance turns on total weight, and the forty-three streets and squares it names — Masarykovo náměstí, Horní náměstí, Divišovo náměstí, Obroková, Zelenářská, Velká Mikulášská, Hradní and the rest of the historic core — are unaffected by it for anything at or under 3.5 tonnes.
A permit is 100 Kč per vehicle for each started day, or 200 Kč a calendar week, 600 Kč a month, 2 500 Kč for half a year and 4 800 Kč a year. Residents and property owners inside the zone and their families, businesses and public-benefit users of property there, and holders of a ZTP or ZTP/P disability card with their companions pay nothing.
Nor do heavy vehicles of the integrated rescue system on a callout, town buses and other services licensed by the town's transport department — the tourist road train and the wine bus are named — sewer and street cleaning, refuse collection, vehicle recovery, utility and data-cable emergency work, or a heavy vehicle attending a wedding or a funeral, which is allowed to wait at two named spots for as long as the ceremony needs.
In force since 1 January 2024; the national register records it as Platné.
Město Znojmo — Obecně závazná vyhláška města Znojma o místním poplatku za povolení k vjezdu s motorovým vozidlem do vybraných míst a částí měst (č. 5/2023), čl. 1 to čl. 9, as deposited in the Ministry of the Interior's national register of municipal legislation (SPP). The watched strings are on the register's result page for this town and this subject area; the wording itself is in the .docx the register serves at /detail/SPP2ZGWQTFOA2GSK/text
Město Znojmo — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, čl. 5 odst. 1: "100 Kč za vozidlo a za každý započatý den". The flat alternatives in the same article are 200 Kč a calendar week, 600 Kč a calendar month, 2 500 Kč for half a year and 4 800 Kč a calendar year. The charge falls due when the permit is issued (čl. 6). It is payable only for a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes; nothing under that weight needs a permit or pays anything. This source is the register's .docx 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 day, a week, a month, a half-year and a year, and never mentions a clock time. The ban itself is not created here: čl.
2 charges for a permit into places "do kterých je jinak vjezd zakázán příslušnou dopravní značkou" — where entry is otherwise prohibited by the appropriate traffic sign — so any window belongs to that sign, and we have not read it from an official source. Weight, not the clock, is what decides whether the scheme reaches a driver at all.
The historic core, listed street by street in čl.
3: Antonínská, Dolní Česká, Divišovo náměstí, Horní Česká, Horní náměstí, Hradní, Jana Palacha, Jezuitská, Jezuitské náměstí, Klácelova, Kollárova, Kovářská, Kramářská, Lazebnická, Malá Františkánská, Malá Michalská, Malá Mikulášská, Masarykovo náměstí, Mikulášské náměstí, Na Kopečku, Na Svahu, Napajedla, Obroková, Pasířská, Pontassievská, Přemyslovců, Radniční, Slepá, Slepičí trh, Staré Město, Studentská, Tkalcovská, U Brány, U Branky, Úvoz, Václavské náměstí, Velká Františkánská, Velká Michalská, Velká Mikulášská, Veselá, V Jirchářích, Vlkova, Zámečnická and Zelenářská, plus náměstí Svobody at street numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 17 and 18.
Every one of them is named whole except náměstí Svobody, where the ordinance restricts the zone to those eight numbered addresses.
Město Znojmo — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, čl. 3. This source is the register's .docx 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. This scheme asks one question and it is the weight on the vehicle's papers: over 3.5 tonnes needs a permit, at or under 3.5 tonnes does not. The engine, its fuel and its age are irrelevant to it, and unlike Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně the ordinance does not even release a zero-emission vehicle — a battery-electric lorry over 3.5 tonnes needs the same permit as any other.
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 an amount. The ordinance sets no fine: driving a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes 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.
Město Znojmo — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, čl. 2 to čl. 7. This source is the register's .docx 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
Ministerstvo vnitra ČR — Sbírka právních předpisů územních samosprávných celků a některých správních úřadů, the act's own record page, carrying the register's structured validity field. Platnost reads Platné, and the field moves: counted on 15 September 2026 across all 112 acts filed in the country under this subject area, it reads Platné 44 times and "Zrušeno k" with a date 68 times
Město Znojmo — Obecně závazná vyhláška č. 5/2023, full text as the register serves it (.docx). This is the primary wording behind every fact above; the monitor unzips it and reads the wording (D-192), so the strings watched here are the act's own
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-15.