We're thinking of heading to France later this Spring, where of course we'll need a Crit'Air sticker. The French Gov't site nicely has an English translation, which helps a lot.
It asks what the car's Euro rating is, and my V5 document doesn't show this as such, though it does show emission figures.

Online information points to it being Euro 1, being petrol fuelled and registered in 2018.

There's an RAC site which gives

"Euro 1 emissions standards (petrol)

CO: 2.72g/km
HC + NOx: 0.97g/km"

My V5 shows CO at 0.213, HC at 0.021 and NOx at 0.048 which seems to put me clearly in Euro 1 if I'm reading it right.

But I'd hate to be the wrong side of French Bureaucracy if I've misunderstood!
Am I right, please?

Thanks

A 2018 1.5 TSI will be Euro 6.

1 hour ago, Warrior193 said:

A 2018 1.5 TSI will be Euro 6.

Thanks, that's as I thought, then. Good.

That is to say, on re-reading, Crit'Air 1. Sorry, I was getting confused between Euro 6 and Crit'Air 1.... but still good, we're in a decent category!!

For information, I registered my diesel vRS and the sticker came about 5 days later. We are off to the Loire valley and Brittany in May. I think the only time the sticker is required is if you visit certain city centres,

Bonne journee and all that..

10 hours ago, SwallownAmazon said:

For information, I registered my diesel vRS and the sticker came about 5 days later. We are off to the Loire valley and Brittany in May. I think the only time the sticker is required is if you visit certain city centres,

Bonne journee and all that..

Thanks. We last travelled to France in 2023 with our 04 reg diesel Volvo, now replaced by the petrol Skoda. It qualified for a black Crit'Air 4 sticker, so rather than going through Rouen we had to go round, which took quite some time! We found that the Waze app provided not only information about which cities needed us to avoid them, but also gave alternative routes to avoid the clean air zones, which helped a lot.
I don't know how far they've progressed since '23, but during that holiday we also stayed with a French friend who commented that the whole thing was still very confused and confusing even for native inhabitants, with some places having active ANPR and some not, and she reckoned it wasn't always clear which was which, so the safest thing was to avoid all clean air zones with our black sticker, though she also said that friends of hers tended to give a Gallic shrug and carry on anyway hoping they'd get away with it! I'm guessing it'll be more active by now.
Bonnes vacences to you likewise! Brittany and the Loire should be lovely in May, that's the time we're thinking of going.

Hello,

I am in France, my 2014 VRS TSI is crit'air 1.

14 hours ago, SwallownAmazon said:

For information, I registered my diesel vRS and the sticker came about 5 days later. We are off to the Loire valley and Brittany in May. I think the only time the sticker is required is if you visit certain city centres,

Bonne journee and all that..

true, mainly big cities

Apparently, French MPs voted to get rid of low emission zones.

About half way down the page…

https://www.frenchentree.com/news/france-passes-its-2026-budget-news-digest/?mc_cid=269f5519e5&mc_eid=88bcbdf9dd

I have one on my 2016 1.4 TSI Combi. I'd to scan the V5 which satisfied the criteria. Only a low quality scan was accepted.

On 16/03/2026 at 20:39, daveo138 said:

Apparently, French MPs voted to get rid of low emission zones.

About half way down the page…

https://www.frenchentree.com/news/france-passes-its-2026-budget-news-digest/?mc_cid=269f5519e5&mc_eid=88bcbdf9dd

it's a hit or miss situation.

they have talking about it for months. It depends where you are.

I live in Lyon and it is still actif.

go here it will give you your rating depending on the fuel type and year (it will pop up on the right of the screen above the picture of the car) : https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/simulation

edit : your are crit air 1 so good to go anywhere

Edited 23 March23 Mar by nickytheshaft

40 minutes ago, nickytheshaft said:

it's a hit or miss situation.

they have talking about it for months. It depends where you are.

I live in Lyon and it is still actif.

go here it will give you your rating depending on the fuel type and year (it will pop up on the right of the screen above the picture of the car) : https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/simulation

edit : your are crit air 1 so good to go anywhere

Merci! That's interesting to know.

Regrettably other things now mean we'll have to postpone travelling far just for now, but we'll hope to visit France next year, and by then will definitely have a Crit'Air sticker!

Took my 2015 2.0TSI VRs to France last year, was Crit'Air 1 (the purple sticker) or Euro 6