Driving in Baricella

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The short answer for Baricella

Baricella has one driving restriction on our books: the Piano Aria Integrato Regionale (PAIR 2030) — misure straordinarie per… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?

What it means for your car

Petrol or LPG. Petrol cars of Euro 0, Euro 1 and Euro 2 are banned — "veicoli alimentati a benzina EURO 0, EURO 1 ed EURO 2, non conformi alla direttiva 98/69/A CE e successive" — so a petrol car needs to be Euro 3 or better. Bi-fuel vehicles running on LPG/petrol or methane/petrol are banned up to and including Euro 2. Mopeds and motorcycles are banned up to and including Euro 2. ⚠️ THE BI-FUEL LINE CITES A DIFFERENT DIRECTIVE FROM THE REST OF THE FAMILY, AND THE PUBLISHER'S OWN TEXT IS ALSO SHORT A WORD. It reads "veicoli alimentati a GPL/benzina o metano/benzina 0, EURO 1 ed EURO 2, non conformi alla direttiva 91/542/CEE St II e successive o alla direttiva 94/12/CE e successive". The first class is printed as a bare "0" with no "EURO" in front of it, and the directives named are 91/542/CEE and 94/12/CE where Soliera, Vignola and Bagnolo in Piano all name 98/69/A CE for the same vehicles. 🔑 Both forms are preserved as printed (D-261): the threshold a driver needs is unaffected — Euro 0, 1 and 2 are banned either way — and this record does not repair a publisher's citation. ⚠️ THE TWO-WHEELER LINES ARE PRINTED TWICE AND THE FIRST OF THEM CARRIES A DOUBLED WORD. The order lists "ciclomotori e motocicli EURO 0, EURO 1 ed EURO 2 non conformi alla direttiva direttiva 2003/77/CE e successive" and then, on the next indent, "motocicli EURO 0, EURO 1 ed EURO 2 non conformi alla direttiva 2003/77/CE e successive" — motorcycles twice, and mopeds folded into the motorcycle directive. 🔑 Its siblings put mopeds under Directive 2013/60/EC and motorcycles under 2003/77/EC on separate lines. Again the threshold is unaffected: Euro 0 to Euro 2 on two wheels is banned under every reading.
Diesel. Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 — "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3 ed EURO 4 non conformi alla direttiva 2005/55/CE B2 e successive o alla direttiva 99/96 fase III oppure Riga B2 o C e successive" — so a diesel needs to be Euro 5 or better. 🚨 AND THAT IS TRUE ON EVERY DAY OF THE SEASON. There is no second list: no ecological Sunday on which the threshold moves to Euro 5, and no emergency vehicle limitation. Formigine, Castenaso, Maranello and Piacenza all carry one or both. A Euro 5 diesel is therefore lawful in Baricella on a Tuesday, on a Sunday and during an air-quality alert alike. 🔑 AND A EURO 4 DIESEL HAS A WAY OUT HERE THAT IT DOES NOT HAVE AT BAGNOLO IN PIANO. Move-In is operative exemption letter d) of point 8, so an enrolled vehicle is outside the point 1 ban. The order published seven days earlier at Bagnolo in Piano, on the same index, grants nothing of the kind. ⚠️ A reader who has seen that Italian national law set a structural Euro 5 diesel limitation from 1 October 2026 should note that it does not reach Baricella: the national duty applies "nei centri abitati dei Comuni con popolazione superiore a 100.000 abitanti", and Baricella sits on Arpae's register of plain-country municipalities below thirty thousand. 🚫 UNLIKE ITS SIBLINGS THIS ORDER DOES NOT PRINT ITS OWN POPULATION, so no figure is given here. Soliera prints 15 465 and Bagnolo in Piano 9 643, each in its own preamble; this preamble recites the 100 000 threshold and never states where the Comune stands against it. A number could be taken from a statistical source, but it would not be this publisher's and it is not needed: the register the order is filed on already settles which duty binds it.

Sources last read on 2026-09-30, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-30.

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