Overview
- Vehicles without a DGT label (category A) that are domiciled in Madrid or pay the city’s circulation tax would be allowed to drive and use their neighborhood SER parking.
- The authorization would remain in force only while Madrid meets EU nitrogen dioxide thresholds, ending automatically if any of the 24 monitoring stations records a breach.
- The proposal replaces a fixed moratorium that had run through 2027 with an open-ended, performance-based regime tied to measured air quality.
- City data indicate a limited impact, with an average of 1,045,898 unique vehicles per day in February and 11,309 of them classified as category A and domiciled in Madrid, about 1.08% of the total.
- Officials cite sustained gains under the Madrid 360 strategy, noting four consecutive years of compliance with EU rules and record-low NO2 levels in 2024–2025, with further improvements in early 2026.