Driving in Mirandola

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The short answer for Mirandola

Mirandola has one driving restriction on our books: the Ordinanza per il contenimento dell'inquinamento atmosferico: periodo… (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 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. 🔑 As in Fidenza, there is nothing for these four lines 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. In Modena, Piacenza and Maranello the same four lines are described as staying put while the diesel line moves on Sundays and emergency days; here no such day exists.
Diesel. Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 — point 1 sub-point 1.3, "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 Modena, Piacenza or Maranello records should note that the Euro 5 extension in them is absent here. Those orders reach Euro 5 diesel on ecological Sundays or on emergency days by cross-referring their emergency article; this order has neither, 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 Mirandola — for the same reason it does not reach Fidenza, and NOT for the reason the Piacenza record gives. The two look interchangeable and are not. Piacenza is above the 100,000 threshold and escaped the limitation only because the Region substituted compensating measures by DGR n. 1505 of 07/09/2026. Mirandola 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 Mirandola alla data del 31/12/2025 era pari a 24.951 abitanti". The regional opt-out by DGR n. 1505 is recited in this preamble too, and the order is explicit that what it did was identify compensating measures "nei Comuni con popolazione superiore a 100.000 abitanti dell'Emilia-Romagna" — a set this comune is not in. The compensating measures this order does implement are about heating rather than driving: the civil heating season starting on 1 November 2026, and a biomass restriction on emergency days.

Sources last read on 2026-09-28, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-28.

The schemes, one by one

Ordinanza per il contenimento dell'inquinamento atmosferico: periodo… Low emission zone
Mirandola closes the built-up area of its main town 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. 🚨 This is the second Emilia-Romagna order in this corpus with no Sunday measure, and it reaches that result by a route the first one did not, which is why it is worth being exact.

In Fidenza the word "domenica" does not occur in the order at all. Here it does: the preamble describes the regional Move-In telematics scheme and says that it does not permit its members to drive "in occasione delle domeniche ecologiche, ove adottate con specifica ordinanza" — where adopted by a specific ordinance. This ordinance adopts none.

Its operative part, the ORDINA section, never uses the word, and a reader who searched only the whole document for the stem would get a hit and conclude the opposite of the truth. Saturday carries no ban either. 🔑 Nor does the ban widen when the air is bad.

The order does attach Arpae's emergency bulletin to two measures — a ban on spreading livestock slurry and a restriction on biomass heating, both triggered across the province of Modena — but it orders no emergency measure for traffic, names no second vehicle list and no second window, so a Euro 5 diesel is outside this scheme at every hour of the season. ⚠️ There is one more thing this order does not have that all four of its neighbours do: it does not suspend the ban on local public transport strike days.

Electric and hybrid vehicles, cars carrying at least three people, vehicles registered for specific transport or special uses, and vehicles enrolled in Move-In are outside the ban altogether. Unlike Modena, Piacenza and Fidenza, this order excludes no roads from the restricted area and carves nothing out of it.

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