Driving in Riccione

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The short answer for Riccione

Riccione has one driving restriction on our books: the Limitazioni alla circolazione e regolamentazione impianti a biomassa… (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, 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. None of these four lines moves anywhere in the scheme: petrol, bi-fuel, mopeds and motorcycles are caught at Euro 2 on weekdays, on the twenty-four ecological Sundays and while the emergency measures are running alike. It is only the diesel line that moves. 🔑 Electric mopeds and motorcycles are named as exempt in their own right at point 10 — "ciclomotori e motocicli elettrici" — which the Rimini order does not do, so a rider on an electric two-wheeler is outside this ban on the face of the act rather than by inference from the Euro classes.
Diesel. Diesel cars are banned up to and including Euro 4 from Monday to Friday — "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3, 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 on a weekday. 🚨 On each of the twenty-four ecological Sundays the line moves one class further and Euro 5 is banned as well: "veicoli diesel EURO 0, EURO 1, EURO 2, EURO 3, EURO 4 ed Euro 5 non conformi al regolamento 715/2007*692/2008 (Euro 6 A o Euro 6 B)". The same Euro 5 extension applies whenever the region's emergency measures are running, on any day of the week. A Euro 5 diesel is therefore legal here on a Tuesday and illegal on the Sunday after it, and only a Euro 6 diesel is clear of every list. 🔑 The national Euro 5 deadline does not reach this comune, and the order's own preamble shows why while never saying so. It recites the whole chain at length — Legge n. 105 of 18 July 2025 requiring a structural Euro 5 diesel limitation from 1 October 2026 "in via prioritaria per i Comuni aventi popolazione maggiore di 100.000 abitanti", L.R. n. 9 of 28/07/2026 article 15 enacting it regionally, and DGR n. 1505 of 07/09/2026 substituting compensating measures so that Emilia-Romagna municipalities over 100,000 inhabitants need not apply it. Every one of those three steps is addressed to municipalities over 100,000. ⚠️ Riccione states its own population only as a threshold: "la popolazione residente nel Comune di Riccione è superiore ai 30.000 abitanti", over thirty thousand, with no figure. That is the test the order actually has to pass — article 12 of the PAIR applies to comuni over 30,000 — and it is a different test from the one the Euro 5 chain turns on. So the Euro 5 recital in this preamble is boilerplate carried across from a larger comune's template and does not bear on the ban Riccione imposes. A Euro 5 diesel driver is restricted here on Sundays and on emergency days because this order says so at points 2 and 8.1, not because of anything in the national law.

Sources last read on 2026-10-01, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-30.

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