Fidenza, Italy · Low emission zone
Official name Divieto di circolazione nell'area del centro abitato di Fidenza (PR) — disposizioni in materia di tutela della qualità dell'aria dal 1 ottobre 2026 al 31 marzo 2027 in attuazione del PAIR 2030 (Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026)
In force in Fidenza right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:04 · Europe/Rome
Lifts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 18:30 local time.
🚨 There is exactly one rule here and that is the finding, not an omission. The three neighbouring Emilia-Romagna records for the same season under the same regional plan each carry a second rule for Sundays; this order has no Sunday measure, no Saturday measure and no emergency measure for traffic. A later cycle adding a Sunday rule to this timetable from a neighbour would be inventing a restriction, which is the more damaging direction of the two.
The absence was measured rather than inferred from silence. A case-insensitive search for "domenic" over the extracted sixteen pages returns nothing, and the live-file monitor returns [MISS] for the same stem in a run where twenty-two other strings from the file return [OK].
The emergency measures are not in this timetable because this order makes none for traffic. Arpae issues its bulletin on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the order attaches it to biomass heating and to slurry spreading, measured across the province of Parma; the vehicle ban above does not change on those days and no wider vehicle list exists in the act.
Strike days are not in this timetable: the order suspends the ban on any day of a local public transport strike, and those are called at short notice.
⚠️ This timetable is a clock and says nothing about where you are. The ban applies in the delimited centro abitato shown on the plan attached to the order, and two named routes to park-and-ride car parks are excluded from it, so a vehicle on the banned list can be lawfully moving at every hour in this table.
The order's other measures are outside this timetable because they are not about driving: the heating-season start of 1 November 2026, the indoor temperature limits, the biomass and open-burning rules, the pellet certification duty and the shop-door closing duty all run on their own periods.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Fidenza closes its built-up area to older vehicles for the winter half of the year, from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. The ban runs Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30, and it catches petrol cars up to and including Euro 2, LPG/petrol and methane/petrol up to and including Euro 2, diesel cars up to and including Euro 4, and mopeds and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2.
Nothing is on sale: there is no day ticket, no charge and no payable derogation.
The fine is the national one and the order states it, a range of €168 to €679 under article 7 paragraph 13-bis of the Highway Code, with fifteen to thirty days' licence suspension for a repeat offence within two years. 🚨 The single most important thing about this scheme is what it does NOT contain, because three neighbouring records in this corpus do contain it: there is no Sunday measure here at all.
Modena, Piacenza and Maranello each close their centres on Sundays as well — Maranello on every Sunday of the season, Piacenza on twenty named dates — and this order does not. It was measured rather than assumed: the word "domenica" does not occur anywhere in the sixteen pages, and the monitor's own extractor returns [MISS] for the stem "domenic" on this file while it reads twenty-two other strings from it.
Saturday and Sunday carry no ban in Fidenza. 🔑 Nor does the ban widen when the air is bad. The order does attach Arpae's emergency bulletin to its heating and manure-spreading measures, but it orders no emergency measure for traffic and names no second vehicle list and no second window, so a Euro 5 diesel is outside this scheme at every hour of the season.
That is the opposite of the neighbouring orders, where the emergency article reaches Euro 5. Electric and hybrid vehicles, cars carrying at least three people, vehicles registered for specific transport or special uses, and vehicles enrolled in the regional Move-In telematics scheme are outside the ban altogether, and two named routes to park-and-ride car parks stay open through it.
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026, signed by the Mayor and published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna, the regional agency that collects the implementing ordinances of the municipalities bound by the PAIR 2030
Nothing is charged and nothing is on sale. The order bans the listed classes from circulating and then lists the vehicles and journeys that are excluded; there is no day ticket, no registration fee and no payable derogation a visitor could buy.
The one route by which a banned vehicle can be authorised is Move-In, the regional telematics scheme, which fits a black box and allows a monitored annual mileage allowance instead of a flat prohibition, on the terms of Annexes A, B and C to regional decision DGR n. 1493 of 22/09/2025. ⚠️ Here the order does not itself grant Move-In: it cites a separate act of the same Comune, "Ordinanza Sindacale n.
66 del 26 settembre 2025 con la quale il comune di Fidenza ha stabilito di consentire la circolazione nell'area soggetta alle limitazioni strutturali… ai veicoli che hanno aderito al sistema Move-In", and then lists those vehicles among the exclusions from point 1.
That earlier ordinance was not opened for this record and is not cited as a source here; what is published is that this order excludes Move-In vehicles from its own ban. 🔑 The reach of that exclusion is simpler than in the neighbouring records only because there is less for it to reach: Maranello's order has to say whether Move-In survives the ecological Sundays and the emergency measures, and Piacenza's says expressly that it does not, while this order has neither, so Move-In is outside the one ban there is.
Move-In is in any case a scheme for vehicles registered in the participating regions rather than something a foreign visitor can buy on arrival, and neither the order nor the regional decision states a price in the documents read here, so none is given.
Seasonal, and the season had not yet begun when this was read. The ban runs from 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027, Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 18:30 — point 1, "nel periodo 01/10/2026 – 31/03/2027, dal lunedì al venerdì, dalle 8.30 alle 18.30, il divieto di circolazione nell'area del centro abitato di Fidenza". 🚨 That is the whole timetable, and the emphasis belongs on what is not in it.
There is no Sunday measure: the order never uses the word, and the neighbouring orders for the same season under the same regional plan all do. There is no Saturday measure either.
And there is no emergency window: Arpae's bulletin, issued on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, triggers this order's heating restriction and its ban on spreading livestock slurry — both measured "nell'ambito territoriale della Provincia di Parma" — but the order attaches no traffic measure to it, so the clock above does not move when the air is bad and the vehicle list does not widen. ⚠️ Do not read the neighbouring records' 08:00–19:00 emergency window onto this city.
The ban is lifted entirely on days when local public transport is on strike, which cannot be put in a calendar, and on seven named days: 9 October, 1 November, 8 December, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day 2026, and 1 and 6 January 2027. 🔑 Two of those seven suspend nothing at all, and the reason is the absence above: 1 November 2026 is a Sunday and 26 December 2026 a Saturday, and this order bans nothing on either day to begin with.
The 9 October date has no counterpart in any neighbouring order in this corpus.
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026, point 1 for the window and the suspended days, points 3 and 4 for the measures the emergency bulletin does trigger
The centro abitato of Fidenza, as drawn on the plan bound into the order. Point 1 bites "nell'area del centro abitato di Fidenza, come da planimetria costituente l'allegato n. 1", and the DEFINISCE article fixes that area as the one "individuata nella planimetria costituente l'allegato n.
1 parte integrante di questa ordinanza", adding that the perimeter is the one "così come disposto dalla Regione Emilia-Romagna".
The order names no streets as the boundary and lists no excluded localities, so unlike Piacenza's scheme there is nothing carved out of the inside of the perimeter. 🔑 Two roads are nevertheless excluded from the ban, and both exist so that a banned vehicle can still reach a park-and-ride car park: the stretch running from the intermediate junction of the northern ring road to the Marconi Park car park, which is the first part of Via Spiessens, and the southern road network of Fidenza used to reach the car park of the Vaio hospital campus.
A driver of a banned vehicle may use those two approaches and nothing else. ⚠️ The plan itself is published but it cannot be read as data, and it was opened before that was written down: the PDF carries twenty-nine image objects, twenty-six of which are horizontal bands 6 867 pixels wide — twenty-five of 384 pixels and one of 175 — which together make a single raster roughly 6 867 by 9 775 pixels.
They are stored as raw FlateDecode pixel streams with no image container, so no viewer opens them, and the monitor confirms it from the other side: "Delimitazione del centro abitato" returns [MISS] on this file while twenty-two of the order's own sentences return [OK]. There is no coordinate reference system on it either.
On the ground the practical test is the one the Highway Code gives: a centro abitato is bounded on its approach roads by the begin and end signs bearing the town's name.
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026, point 1 and the DEFINISCE article letters a) and b), read with Allegato 1, the plan bound into the same PDF
The authority's own map: Comune di Fidenza (PR)
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 o alla direttiva 99/96/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 treated identically and banned up to and including Euro 2.
Mopeds are banned up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2013/60/EC or later, and motorcycles up to and including Euro 2 where they do not comply with Directive 2003/77/EC or later. 🔑 In the neighbouring records these four lines are described as holding steady while the diesel line moves on Sundays and emergency days.
Here there is nothing for them to hold steady against: the order has one vehicle list and one window, so Euro 2 is the line at every hour of the season for all four.
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026, point 1, first, second, fourth and fifth indents
Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 — point 1, third indent, "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 answer holds for every hour the scheme is in force. 🚨 A reader who has seen the neighbouring Emilia-Romagna records should note that the Euro 5 extension in them is absent here.
Maranello bans diesel Euro 5 on every Sunday of the season and Piacenza on twenty named ones, in both cases by cross-referring the emergency article; this order has no Sunday measure and no emergency traffic measure to cross-refer to, so Euro 5 is never caught. ⚠️ And 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 Fidenza — but not for the reason the Piacenza record gives, and the difference is worth being exact about because the two look interchangeable.
In Piacenza the population is above the threshold and the limitation was averted only because the Region substituted compensating measures. Fidenza never entered the scope at all: the duty in Legge n. 105 of 18 July 2025, as enacted for this region by L.R. n.
9 of 28/07/2026 article 15 paragraph 1, is addressed to comuni with more than 100,000 inhabitants, and this order records on its own face that "la popolazione residente nel Comune di Fidenza alla data del 31/12/2025 è pari a 27.573 abitanti". The regional opt-out by DGR n.
1505 of 07/09/2026 is cited in this preamble too, and the compensating measures it lists and this order implements are about heating rather than driving — the civil heating season starting on 1 November 2026, and a biomass restriction on emergency days.
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026, point 1 third indent for the ban, and the preamble for the L. 105/2025 → L.R. 9/2026 → DGR 1505/2026 chain and the recorded population
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026, the sanctions article, and the execution article naming the enforcing bodies
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026: point 1 for the ban, the window, the vehicle classes and the suspended days, points 3 and 4 for what the emergency bulletin does trigger, and the DEFINISCE article letters a) to d) for the area, the open routes and the exempt vehicles
Comune di Fidenza (PR) — Ordinanza del Sindaco n. 46 del 18 settembre 2026, "DISPOSIZIONI IN MATERIA DI TUTELA DELLA QUALITA' DELL'ARIA DAL 1 OTTOBRE 2026 AL 31 MARZO 2027", signed digitally by the Mayor, Davide Malvisi, on 18/09/2026 and published by Arpae Emilia-Romagna. This is the operative instrument: it fixes the season, the single weekday window, the banned classes, the area by reference to its Allegato 1, the two open park-and-ride routes, the exemptions, the seven suspended days and the penalties
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Ordinanza del Comune di Fidenza (PR)", the page in the regional agency's index where this order is published. ⚠️ Note which index this is: not the one carrying Modena, Piacenza and Maranello, but the separate list of ordinances of the plain municipalities UNDER 30,000 inhabitants, which is reached from "Limitazioni comuni di pianura sotto i 30.000 abitanti" and was not known to this corpus before 2026-09-28
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Ordinanze comuni pianura", the index of implementing ordinances for the plain municipalities under 30,000 inhabitants. Cited for where this record sits: on 2026-09-28 the index carried six municipalities — Brescello (RE), Castellarano (RE), Coriano (RN), Fidenza (PR), Mirandola (MO) and Quattro Castella (RE) — every one of them a 2026 ordinance, and this is the only one of the six read for this cycle
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Limitazioni comuni di pianura sotto i 30.000 abitanti", the regional page describing the measures that bind the smaller plain municipalities. Cited for the framework this order implements and for the category Fidenza falls into, which the order's own text confirms: the Comune is in the Pianura Ovest zone and had 27,573 inhabitants at 31/12/2025
This rule ends on 2027-03-31, by the dates in the order itself. We do not re-check it after that — the page comes out of our index, and only a new order from the authority can put a rule for this road back on it.