Apparently French low-emission zones are being scrapped?
I’m more than a little surprised, though perhaps I shouldn’t be.
But how on earth can we safely remove our carefully positioned Crit’Air vignettes?
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Well I shall leave mine in place, these things have a habit of being re-instated. Remember when the road tax vignettes were done away with and people left them on, some had windscreens with several years worth plastered all over them.
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Section from the news article
" Agnès Pannier-Runacher, the minister for green transition, told MPs that “air pollution is behind almost 40,000 premature deaths a year… and the low-emission zones have helped bring down [that number]”.
The Greens and Socialists also voted to maintain the zones.
Green Senator Anne Souyris told BFMTV that “killing [the ZFEs] also means killing hundreds of thousands of people” and Socialist MP Gérard Leseul said the vote sent a negative signal as it did not address the reduction that had to be made to levels of air pollution.
The abolition is expected to go through the upper house, France’s Senate, but it still needs to be approved in a broader bill in the lower house in June and will have to be approved by France’s Constitutional Council, which is not guaranteed."
Is it a foregone conclusion that the Abolition bill will be approved in France’s Senate in June 2025 ??? … watch this space… 
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Not actually law yet, as mentioned above.
Both my Crit’Air stickers are remaining firmly in place for now. 
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Apparently the aim is not to penalise urban workers who have smelly old diesels that they can’t afford to replace (many sans contrôle technique ?). Surely a more sensible compromise would be to limit the time when such vehicles can enter/leave the city, say before 7.30 am and after 7.30 pm., Mon -Sat ?
Yes, a workman was interviewed about this on TF1 tonight in the centre of Marseille where he lives and works and drives a rusty old VW pickup. As he said, he has just a short time left before retiring and cannot afford to find €30,000 to buy a new vehicle and actually the local plod leave him and others like him alone and don’t fine him or them.
Is it correct that we no longer need to show car insurance vignettes?
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Well I’ll show you mine if you show me yours …
Yes it is.
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According to consumer organisation Que Choisir’s article they sent out last week Agnès Pannier-Runacher was the Minister who let Perrier get away with providing water from polluted springs and not filtering it properly.
I view the vote to end ZFE’s as a victory although the government did try to protect Paris and Lyon’s Zone for Exclusion.
The government won’t give up though and I do expect them to find a way to keep anti pollution zones. Provided they don’t put the ordinary guy trying to earn his living out of business because he can’t afford an electric vehicle to transport his kit and give him some help i’m sure a compromise can be found.
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Good window cleaner and a sharp blade despatched my crit’air on my Volvo when i returned it to the UK to be MOT’d and re registered to be sold. 
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I keep my last one in the glove box just as proof I had it.
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Don’t throw your stickers away, or scrape them off your cars etc… not just yet.
According to l’Ardennais… if Crit’Air ZFE vanishes, there will possibly be different methods of reducing traffic pollution… with vehicles still needing their Crit’Air stickers…
"Mais la disparition de ces dernières ne signifierait pas forcément la fin des vignettes, puisque celles-ci ont un autre usage, moins connu. Lors des pics de pollutions, elles servent ainsi à la mise en place de la circulation différenciée.
Celle-ci a progressivement remplacé, à partir de 2017, la circulation alternée (interdiction temporaire de circuler pour les véhicules ayant une plaque paire/impaire).
La circulation différenciée est donc une mesure temporaire, qui peut être décidée par le préfet en cas d’épisode de pollution atmosphérique pour limiter la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants… en s’appuyant sur la fameuse vignette.
Un arrêté préfectoral peut ainsi, par exemple, interdire pour une période donnée la circulation des voitures Crit’Air 4 ou plus dans une partie d’un département (généralement, les grandes agglomérations). "
One aspect of France that’s simultaneously fascinating and off-putting is the inclination and ability of the population to push back effectively against laws seen as unjust. And the manner in which some seem able to ignore the rules they don’t like (such Monsieur rusty dub above) and quietly get away with it thanks to a sympathetic enforcement.
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At the same time as the possible repeal of ZFE rules, smoking may be banned in the open air?
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When removing a crit air sticker, is it best with a knife or finger nail, and does one peel from the top or side?
Now that’s going to depend on where you stuck it in the first place
Ask an MOT person?
It is by no means a done deal yet. It still has to get through the Senate and then the Constitutional Committee.