Not sure whether this is a car only thing and did not have much time to do a search as to whether it will affect LKW.
Brit Pete, Simon or Neil might be able to investigate.
yes if you want to go inside limits in the cities affected - RHA sent out details last year but haven’t had time to look at it properly yet
have found this site have a look the law has
been in force for a while now ,and they have
now gone a step further and due to the heavy
concentration of pollution in the air,which has
caused a rise in the cases of ASTHMA in
many areas where these where found,
iF you look at the right hand side of this link it shows how to go about getting
a sticker, i will try asking at the local transport office during the week and post here any information i get given, hope that the above can help as a starter,
IN some ways you can compare it to the LEZ zone that London has brought in
YES for many it may be another burden,however ,it is a fact that due to air pollution that Asthma is on the increase in a big way,in many areas of that
have these high concertrations of FEIN-STAUB (fine-dust) ;so yes we have to do some thing about this problem,
Looks like Berlin, Köln and Hannover are starting the ball rolling on this one, with probably many more to follow 
Here are maps showing the extent of the “Environmental zones” in each of the 3 cities:
Berlin Looks as if the Raststätte Funkturm (Avus) is right on the border of the zone so maybe OK
Köln The zone includes the Messe in Deutz
Hannover This seems to include some of the industrial areas
So, if you want to venture downtown in any of these sin-filled cities, you’re going to have to get yourself a sticker for the old LKW
If you run to the Fatherland on a regular basis, it would seem to make sense to obtain one of these stickers asap.
I had a look at the link that Brit Pete posted earlier, but couldn’t find any information about where to apply for the “Fine particle sticker” outside Germany.
I’ve fired off an e-mail to Dekra asking for info.
I’ll let you know when I hear from them.
MY bet is that you will have to
apply for the sticker over here
direct ,and for that, you will need
your vehicles docs, a small fee
will be charged,no doubt, I had
to pay €5 for the sticker for my
own CAR;
From 1 January 2008 a total of 33 German cities will require all motorists to purchase a “Pollution Badge” in the form of a windscreen sticker in order to enter city centre ‘Umwelt Zones’ (green zones).
The participating cities are: Augsburg, Berlin, Braunschweig, Köln (Cologne), Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Hannover, Heidelberg, Islfeld, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Leipzig, Leonburg, Ludwigsburg, Madgeburg, Mannheim, Mühlacker, München (Munich), Neu-Ulm, Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Pforzheim, Pleidelsheim, Regensburg, Reutlingen, Ruhr Area, Schwäbish-Gmund, Stuttgart, Tübingen and Ulm.
You must present your vehicle registration document at Pollution Badge (Umwelt Plakette) sales outlets, including vehicle repair centres, car dealers, MOT (Tüv) stations and vehicle licensing offices, and you will be issued with a badge, coloured (Red/Yellow/Green) according to your vehicle’s Euro emission rating.
The cost of the badge is understood to be between €5 and €10 and, once issued, covers you throughout Germany for the life of your vehicle. Failure to display a badge could incur a fine of €40. Enforcement will be managed by the police, local authorities and traffic wardens.
This website gives a lot of information (in German): www.umwelt-plakette.de
Also umwelt-plakette.de/umweltpla … 76a3aq6914
Safe travelling
Don
what about the tourist car ? this summer i will drive to Sud Germany include Reutlingen, Munchen and Nurnberg ?
foreign tourist car must get pollution badge sticker ? how long valid for pollution badge sticker - six months or one years ?
where can i get one from ? if its ok Belgium/ Germany border (Aachen service stn) will they sell one ?
Thank Ben
Betz have a good look at the links
posted in the replys from early,
you will have to get a sticker but
it lasts until they change the
levels of exhaust emmissions,
if you have a very old car which is
not however a classed as a
oldie then it may be that your car gets
sticker which restricts movement,
the cost of the sticker are betweeen €10
and €5 all depends where you get it done,
I’ve done a bit of searching and this site seems to be doing the stickers for Euro5 I don’t know how reliable it is though.
stadt-koeln.de/en/lowemissio … index.html
Hannover appears to be granting any foreign plated vehicles exemption for 2008 which is useful if you intend a quick visit in the car.
With a seperate sticker for every city, it will only be useful on a 52 seater coach. My windscreen would be full otherwise 
We will look like one of those sad caravaners 
same sticker for any city i think malc
It now appears that the number of cities which have now actully introduced the Umwelt Zone regulations on 1st January 2008 has reduced to 3: Berlin, Cologne (Köln) and Hannover. Some more cities, all of them in the provinces Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg in the south of Germany, are still planning to introduce them during 2008.
All vehicles that want to travel inside of an Umwelt Zone need to display a sticker (“Umweltplakette”) on the windscreen. This sticker is available in three colours, red, yellow and green, where red stands for worst and green for best emission values.
During 2008 all Umwelt Zones will be open for all sticker colours, but vehicles with red sticker will be banned from the Umwelt Zone in Hannover from 2009 on, and in Cologne from 2010 on. Berlin will allow all stickers until end of 2009, and afterwards only green stickers. The regulations of other cities are still subject to change.
Motorways are (so far) exempted from the Umwelt Zone regulations, even if they pass through such zones.
It is possible to get Umwelt stickers at all German “TÃœV” and “DEKRA” offices, which you usually find (pretty well signposted) somewhere in the industrial districts of most German towns. These are the institutions which do the regular technical checks on motor vehicles (like British MOT). With your van’s VIN number these institutions should be able to find out which sticker is suitable for your vehicle, and hand it out within some minutes. If you don’t find one, ask local people or at petrol stations for the nearest “TÃœV”.
An alternative would be to contact a German representative of your base vehicle manufacturer, or a local car registration office (“Kfz-Zulassungsstelle”).
BTW, the “TÃœV” charges only EUR 5.- for a sticker.
The sticker colours correspond to the EURO emission classes, they have nothing to do with the CO2 emissions. Class EURO 1 vehicles do not get any stickers, so they will be banned from all Umwelt Zones. Class EURO 2 vehicles get the red sticker, class EURO 3 vehicles (like the popular Ducato 2.8 JTD engine) yellow, and EURO 4 vehicles green.
Under certain conditions older vehicles might receive a “better” sticker if a particle filter is retrofitted.
BERLIN,has been enforceing the pollution
zone, and therefore had a increase in the towns
bank account ,they have caught in one check well over
1,000 offenders,who as well as being fined and given
I point on their licence, also had to leave the area where
the zone is in force.