Mirandola, Italy · Low emission zone
Official name Ordinanza per il contenimento dell'inquinamento atmosferico: periodo 1/10/2026-31/03/2027 — divieto di circolazione nell'area del centro abitato del capoluogo di Mirandola (MO) (Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026)
In force in Mirandola right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · 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. Three of the four neighbouring Emilia-Romagna records for the same season under the same regional plan 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, but NOT the way the Fidenza record measures its own. There the stem "domenic" is absent from the whole document and returns [MISS] against the live file. Here it returns [OK], because the preamble recites the regional Move-In rule about ecological Sundays "ove adottate con specifica ordinanza". The valid measurement is scoped to the operative part: a case-insensitive search for "domenic" over the ORDINA section of the extracted thirteen pages returns nothing, and the single whole-document hit is that conditional preamble sentence. A whole-file search here would give the opposite of the right answer.
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 Modena; the vehicle ban above does not change on those days and no wider vehicle list exists in the act.
⚠️ This timetable is a clock and says nothing about where you are. The ban applies in the centro abitato of the capoluogo only, delimited by two council resolutions of 1993 and 1999 that the order cites but does not reproduce, so a vehicle on the banned list can be lawfully moving at every hour in this table — anywhere in the municipality outside the main town.
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 and across the whole municipality.
The additional local measures the order adopts under article 17 of the PAIR 2030 technical rules change nothing in this table. The order records twelve exceedances of the daily PM10 limit at the Gavello (MO) monitoring station since 1 January 2026 and adopts, in response, promotion of cycling and walking to work and school and more frequent street cleaning. Neither is a restriction on driving.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
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.
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026, signed by the Mayor, Letizia Budri, 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 excluded from that ban; 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. ⚠️ As in the neighbouring Fidenza record, this order does not itself grant Move-In: it cites a separate act of the same Comune, "l'ordinanza Sindacale n.284 del 25.09.2025 con la quale il comune di Mirandola ha stabilito di consentire la circolazione nell'area soggetta alle limitazioni strutturali alla circolazione … 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 simple here for the same reason it is simple in Fidenza — there is only one ban for it to reach.
Piacenza's order has to say expressly that Move-In does not survive its ecological Sundays and its emergency measures, and Maranello's has to name the three points it is excused from; this order has neither Sundays nor an emergency traffic measure, so Move-In is outside the single prohibition there is.
Move-In is in any case a scheme for vehicles registered in the participating Italian 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 dal 1.10.2026 al 31.03.2027 dal lunedì al venerdì, dalle 8.30 alle 18.30, il divieto di circolazione nell'area del centro abitato del capoluogo di Mirandola". 🚨 That is the whole timetable, and the emphasis belongs on what is not in it.
There is no Sunday measure: the ORDINA section never uses the word, and the neighbouring orders for the same season under the same regional plan mostly do. ⚠️ Do not settle that question with a search over the whole file.
The word IS in this document, once, in the preamble, where the order recites that a Move-In vehicle may not drive "in occasione delle domeniche ecologiche, ove adottate con specifica ordinanza" — a conditional about the regional scheme, not an adoption. 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 ban on spreading livestock slurry and its biomass heating restriction — both measured "nell'ambito territoriale della Provincia di Modena" — 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 08:00–19:00 emergency window of the Modena, Piacenza and Maranello records onto this city.
The ban is lifted on five named days of festivity: 8 December and 25 December 2026, 1 and 6 January 2027, and 29 March 2027. 🔑 Every one of those five falls Monday to Friday, so every one of them actually changes something, and this is the only one of the five Emilia-Romagna orders in this corpus of which that is true.
Fidenza names seven days, two of them a Sunday and a Saturday it does not ban on anyway; Maranello names six, one of them a Saturday.
Mirandola's list has no such day in it. ⚠️ The dates themselves are shared rather than distinctive — Modena and Piacenza also suspend their bans on 29 March 2027, while Maranello and Fidenza do not — so it is the shape of this list, not its contents, that separates it. ⚠️ And one suspension that four neighbouring orders do carry is missing here: this order says nothing about local public transport strikes.
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026, point 1 for the window and the suspended days, point 6 for the measures the emergency bulletin does trigger
The centro abitato of the capoluogo — the main town of Mirandola — and not the whole municipality. Point 1 bites "nell'area del centro abitato del capoluogo di Mirandola, come definito da Codice della strada, di cui alla delibera di GC n.1152 del 09.12.1993 e delibera di GC n.56 del 30.03.1999". 🔑 That sentence is doing something none of the four neighbouring orders does, and it is the reason this record has no map.
The area is not a perimeter drawn for this scheme: it is the statutory built-up-area delimitation that every Italian comune adopts under the Highway Code, fixed here by two council resolutions from 1993 and 1999, and this order simply borrows it. Those two resolutions are not reproduced in the order and were not opened for this record.
The practical consequence for a driver is the one the Highway Code itself provides: a centro abitato is bounded on its approach roads by the begin and end signs bearing the town's name, so the boundary is signposted even though no drawing of it is published here. 🔑 The word capoluogo matters.
Mirandola's outlying localities are outside the restricted area; the order restricts the main town only, while its other measures — the heating, burning and slurry rules — are expressly taken "in tutto il territorio comunale", across the whole municipality. The order draws that distinction itself in consecutive points. ⚠️ This area article is the leanest of the five Emilia-Romagna orders in this corpus.
It names no street as a boundary, excludes no locality from the inside of the area, and — unlike Modena with its twenty-six park-and-ride routes and Fidenza with its two — opens no road through it for banned vehicles. There is nothing carved out and nothing let through.
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026, point 1 for the restricted area and the two council resolutions that delimit it, points 2 to 5 for the measures that instead apply across the whole municipality
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.
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026, point 1 sub-points 1.1, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.5
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.
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026, point 1 sub-point 1.3 for the ban, and the preamble for the L. 105/2025 → L.R. 9/2026 → DGR 1505/2026 chain, the recorded population and the air-quality zone
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026, point 9 and its letters a) to e), and the supervision article naming the enforcing bodies
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026: point 1 for the ban, the window, the area, the vehicle classes and the suspended days, point 6 for what the emergency bulletin does trigger, point 8 for the exempt vehicles and point 9 for the penalties
Comune di Mirandola (MO) — Atto monocratico del Sindaco Nr. 476 del 24/09/2026, "ORDINANZA PER IL CONTENIMENTO DELL'INQUINAMENTO ATMOSFERICO : PERIODO 1/10/2026-31/03/2027", signed by the Mayor, Letizia Budri, 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 two council resolutions, the exemptions, the five suspended days and the penalties
Arpae Emilia-Romagna — "Ordinanza del Comune di Mirandola (MO)", 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 Fidenza and Mirandola are the two of the six read so far
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 Mirandola falls into, which the order's own text confirms: the Comune is in the Pianura Ovest zone and had 24,951 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.