I spent a few days there in June and, so far, haven’t heard a thing.
That’s what TfL has been up to. The UK debt collectors have been using companies in Europe that have legitimate access (though not for this purpose) to provide them with details.
Yes, that I knew.
However, as TFL (unlike Bristol) allows you to register your non-UK vehicle for compliance I’m wondering if their debt collecting might be less draconian (let’s face it, the number of BCAZ infractions by non-UK vehicles must be tiny i.e. not worth paying a debt collector for).
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The story rumbles on…
“Since Brexit, the UK has been banned from automatic access to personal details of EU residents, but transport authorities in Belgium, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands allege that TfL obtained these details illegally through EPC.”
Crikey I better order one then before the Xmas trip! Can’t wait to fit it, what fun that will be getting everyone’s help. 
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Enquire within. 
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There’s been a few SF posts on where to place it, but I don’t recall many on how to do it.
I fitted the new car’s Crit Air sticker today and after some deliberation, decided to not exactly follow the official sequence of instructions (sixty-odd years ago often did the same with Airfix kits).
Suspect there’s several possible variations on how to obtain the desired outcome…
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IIRC there are two main methods described on the sheet to which it’s attached - depending on whether it’s going on the inside of a windscreen or on the outside e.g. on the front fork of a motorcycle.
Here is a handy video for your viewing pleasure:
One can of course also cut around the transparent backing sheet so that it’s not visible on the car windscreen, or bit of bike on which it’s stuck.
Also, no mention of burnishing the sticker from behind so that it isn’t blotchy.
Lack of understanding of the int’l combustion motor. A motor operating at its designed temperature and at the peak of the torque/revs curve will be operating at its most efficient. Its emissions will be at their minimum. This is usually the case with m/way driving, esp commercial vehicles, of which I have owned a few and driven many.
This is why emission tests run the motor at its most inefficient. - max rev/no load. That’s why one is warned that the motor must be up to working temp and capable of sustaining the rigour of the test - and that the testing stn will take no responsibilty if it goes ‘BANG!’ under standard test conditions.
The Hon Gent has no idea of what a high emission zone is really like if he has not lived on Finborough Rd London SW.
This road and the extension up Warwick Rd past the old Earl’s Ct exhibition venue, is a canyon of 4 story terraces, the artery from all points south of the Thames to the A4/M4 turning at West Cromwell Rd and, a mile further on, the Westway spur to the A40/M40. You can pretty much suck the pollution thru’ your teeth.
Whatever the reason the French had in 1956 are way out of date now. The number of vehicles, the density of traffic, the distances travelled, the movement of freight from canal/rail to HGVs, the creation of a/routes.
Every effort and incentive should be made to keep long distance traffic out of towns/villages/cities. Stats have it that the drop in emissions in the ULEZ is of London is significant. The medics are chuffed.
I know the route to the M4 well and as one that acquired asthma due to London’s smog of the fifties/sixties I’m all for clean air. The issue here for me though was the illegal gathering of personal data.
On a slightly related topic thre DVLA has written to me today. They gave the wrong answer to the wrong question because the reply didn’t come from the person I had dealt with.
But the good news is that in the course of doing that, they confirmed the UK is still not sharing drivers details with Europe for parking fines. They won’t release them. (Not that my question had anything to do with fines or parking.)
The interesting thing is it sounds like this might apply to all sorts of other things, like speeding. The driver will not be identified to anyone in Europe by the DVLA.
Well I’m blessed, I always thought my asthma dated from birth (still do actually) but that gave me pause for thought, I lived for several months in a house on the corner of Cromwell road and Gloucester road. It is a very grand house and I am surprised to see that it is a Post Office now. 
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I am not a medic of course, but I think a propensity to asthma is genetic but it’s triggered by environmental factors.
Mine used to be just a mild response to pollen, but after I spent five or six years commuting daily from Woolwich to Fulham and back by car it became a problem.
When I moved to Turks and Caicos and breathed clean sea air it went away - back in the UK (but not spending too much time in traffic) now it’s on the mild side again, controlled with inhalers.
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I always had a problem with catarrh, my Mum also, so yes genetic. But although I knew I could get hay fever from various things, I didn’t know I had asthma 'till I nearly died from a very serious attack back in the early 60s. Then another one 50 years later. 
Scary stuff! Do you have an inhaler or an epipen for emergencies?
An inhaler after the 2nd attack here, but only used it once and that was just to enable me to sleep better on one occasion, not an emergency.
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The DVLA will not issue vehicle/owner related details to sources outside the UK since Brexit. Except for police and other law enforcement authorities details are passed to businesses (parking companies) registered under their KADOE contract and local authorities
A private individual can apply for details of a vehicle’s registered owner under certain conditions.
Thanks b33jay. Does this mean that even if ANTS = French DVLA, asked DVLA for the details of a driver of a UK vehicle, DVLA would refuse?
Would DVLA refuse if the request came from ANTS vs say, from French police, for example if a really serious incident was reported?
It works both ways. They didn’t get it thrashed out in the withdrawal agreement. But they probably will in due course. Until then…
I think you are getting into police to police territory there.