Driving in Bergamo

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The short answer for Bergamo

Bergamo has one driving restriction on our books: the Misure permanenti per la limitazione del traffico veicolare (Regione… (low emission zone). What is a low emission zone?

What it means for your car

Petrol or LPG. Euro 1 and below, for petrol, methane and LPG alike, in both of the region's bands. The permanent measures set no further petrol step — there is no Euro 2, Euro 3 or Euro 4 petrol line anywhere in them — and the phase-in that was to begin on 1 October 2026, and that the region postponed to 1 October 2027 on 28 September 2026, was written for diesel only. Nothing about a petrol, methane or LPG vehicle changed either way. A petrol vehicle fitted with a natural-gas or LPG system, from the factory or retrofitted and including bi-fuel installations that keep the petrol tank, is excluded from the ban outright provided the vehicle is of class Euro 2/II or better, which is a more generous line than the one that catches petrol on its own. Two-stroke mopeds and motorcycles are governed by their own rule rather than by fuel, and it is stricter than anything in the car list: Euro 0 two-strokes are banned across the entire region, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, all year.
Diesel. Euro 4 and below. The region bans diesel of Euro 0, Euro 1/I, Euro 2/II and Euro 3/III in both Fascia 1 and Fascia 2 municipalities, and then bans Euro 4/IV diesel as well in Fascia 1 and in the Fascia 2 municipalities over 30 000 inhabitants, which the region now names as four — Varese, Lecco, Vigevano and Abbiategrasso (⚠️ this list read five until 28 September 2026, when S. Giuliano Milanese was dropped from it). Bergamo is Fascia 1: the region's band list names BERGAMO under province code BG inside the ELENCO COMUNI FASCIA 1, the 209-municipality band whose legend reads "agglomerati di MI, BG, BS più i capoluoghi di Pavia, Lodi, Cremona e Mantova e relativi comuni di cintura". So the diesel floor here is Euro 5. 🚨 THE EURO 6 STEP WAS TWO DAYS AWAY AND HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 1 OCTOBER 2027. Until 28 September 2026 the governing act was d.G.R. n. 4843 del 28/07/2025, which confined a Euro 5/V diesel step to "Comuni aventi popolazione superiore ai 100.000 abitanti (Milano, Brescia, Monza e Bergamo)" and phased it by vehicle category, starting with M1 cars on 1 October 2026. On 28 September 2026 the region adopted d.G.R. XII/6846, which resolves «il rinvio delle limitazioni alla circolazione per i veicoli diesel Euro 5 al 1° ottobre 2027» in implementation of decreto-legge 28 settembre 2026, n. 167, and whose Allegato 1 «modifica e sostituisce l'Allegato 1 della d.G.R n. 4843 del 28/07/2025». ✅ Read on 2026-09-29, that replacement Allegato 1 lists the banned classes in full and stops at Euro 4/IV diesel: there is no Euro 5 row in it, and its scope section names Fascia 1, Fascia 2 and the 30 000-inhabitant threshold but no 100 000-inhabitant threshold anywhere. The region's own page states the consequence in terms: «non entrano in vigore dal 1° ottobre 2026 le limitazioni per i veicoli Euro 5 diesel previste dalla delibera n. 4843 del 28 luglio 2025, mentre restano confermate le limitazioni per le altre categorie fino a Euro 4 diesel». ⚠️ The later phases of the 2025 scheme fell with the first. That decision also set M2, N1 and N2 for 1 October 2027 and N3 and M3 for 1 October 2028; since its Allegato 1 has been replaced outright rather than amended date by date, this record states no future date for them. What is published is the postponement of the Euro 5 step to 1 October 2027 and an instruction to the region to identify replacement measures inside the PRIA update «attualmente in corso di definizione». A diesel of any class fitted with an abatement system effective against both particulates and nitrogen oxides is excluded, but the bar is high and was deliberately raised: the system must hold real-driving emissions at or below the values set for Euro 6 D / Euro VI diesel, and since 1 October 2024 a particulate-only filter no longer counts for any vehicle class. ⚠️ The band is drawn municipality by municipality and Bergamo's neighbours are in it too — ORIO AL SERIO and SERIATE are both on the same Fascia 1 list — so a driver who leaves the city to escape the rule may not have escaped it.

Sources last read on 2026-09-29, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-11-05.

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