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At the beginning of the month, we were informing you that the city of Paris, France, will ban every car registered before 1997 to drive on the municipality's premises except for weekends.
Since then, an uproar and a cleverly thought amount of lobbying from historic car enthusiasts have apparently convinced the authorities to exempt classic cars from the upcoming vehicle ban.
According to Hemmings, the Fédération Française des Véhicules d’Epoque (FFVE) announced that its members have reached an agreement with Paris officials to allow certain older cars not to be subjected to the same ban as other.
The agreement is expected to be published in the following days, and it should contain some type of immunity for vehicles that are 30 years old or more, and that wear a Carte Grise the Collection registration sticker.
If the agreement gets an official green light, other cities with similar car bans could jump on the same bandwagon, at least according to Gautam Sen, the vice president of external relations at Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA), the French Historic Vehicle Association.
“I would imagine it happens differently in each city,” Mr. Sen was quoted by Hemmings. “But everybody is kind of waiting for the Paris Accord, if you can call it that.” As a case in point, he quotes Delhi’s current ban on all cars that are 15 years and older from driving on the city's premises. “Once the Paris agreement is on paper, I’d like to take that to Delhi and say, ‘This is what Paris is doing.'”
Even though an official agreement is yet to be made, FFVE has already scheduled more meetings with the Paris officials in order to address even more exemptions to the car ban. For example, a lot of Europeans are very much into so-called “Youngtimers,” which are not 100 percent classic cars, but they aren't modern either. Therefore, 1980S and early 1990s “classics” could be the second vehicle category to catch a break, but only if FFVE's lobbying works.
According to Hemmings, the Fédération Française des Véhicules d’Epoque (FFVE) announced that its members have reached an agreement with Paris officials to allow certain older cars not to be subjected to the same ban as other.
The agreement is expected to be published in the following days, and it should contain some type of immunity for vehicles that are 30 years old or more, and that wear a Carte Grise the Collection registration sticker.
If the agreement gets an official green light, other cities with similar car bans could jump on the same bandwagon, at least according to Gautam Sen, the vice president of external relations at Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA), the French Historic Vehicle Association.
“I would imagine it happens differently in each city,” Mr. Sen was quoted by Hemmings. “But everybody is kind of waiting for the Paris Accord, if you can call it that.” As a case in point, he quotes Delhi’s current ban on all cars that are 15 years and older from driving on the city's premises. “Once the Paris agreement is on paper, I’d like to take that to Delhi and say, ‘This is what Paris is doing.'”
Even though an official agreement is yet to be made, FFVE has already scheduled more meetings with the Paris officials in order to address even more exemptions to the car ban. For example, a lot of Europeans are very much into so-called “Youngtimers,” which are not 100 percent classic cars, but they aren't modern either. Therefore, 1980S and early 1990s “classics” could be the second vehicle category to catch a break, but only if FFVE's lobbying works.
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