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Brussels, Source: Facebook / Zipcar Belgium

Brussels officials are ready to start giving out fines to drivers who enter the city with old, heavily polluting diesel vehicles

Brussels officials are ready to start giving out fines to drivers who enter the city with old, heavily polluting diesel vehicles

The city will begin issuing fines from October 1st; until then the drivers will receive only a written warning

Speaking during a Brussels parliament committee meeting, the Brussels-Capital Region's minister for environment Céline Fremault has said that implementation of the city’s low-emissions zone, which covers the entire region, is going according to plan. The city has installed 176 cameras – with more to come. Some 300 road signs have also been put up to alert drivers from Flanders and Wallonia that they are entering a low-emissions zone

Number-plate recognition cameras have been checking for vehicles, both Belgian and foreign-registered, that do not conform to the environmental standards since July 1 and the city will begin issuing 350 Euros fines from October 1st. Until then, drivers who are caught entering the low-emissions zone with a banned vehicle (vehicles without Euronorm emission standard or with Euronorm 1) will simply receive a written warning. 

Source: Brussels Times

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