I just realise that I intend to take a car into Toulouse tomorrow that does not have its critair cert. Ordered now online no problem, but I note it is sent via La Poste. I cannot see any way of getting the certificate online from the official critair website.
Does anyone know if proof of purchase using the confirmation email is accepted if I am stopped?
Thanks!
Panic over! I just see shoved away in the faq section that a facsimile of the sticker is emailed within āaboutā 24 hours, so I might just be okā¦
Leads me onto another question - how does one delete a post on the forumā¦?
Itās worth bearing in mind that your question might be useful to someone else, so I suggest you just leave it, even if youāve found the answer yourself. 
Perhaps this could be a useful reminder to folkā¦ to āget it doneāā¦ 
Itās easy, cheapā¦ and saves worrying and/or panicā¦
This is the official siteā¦
We donāt need it here yet, only if you go to the cities concerned which I donāt so will wait and see. The European Norme bit is confusing as not mentioned on the carte grise so had to look it up.
I wonder how many Brits are unaware they need one?
If this does/will help anyone, and answer the question - true to their word, an email arrived with a small copy of the vignette,and, confirmation that the email can be used as ājusticatifā
Efficient.
Will the vignette fade? All my stickers over the years have faded with the sun and now its even hotter and sunnier down here I wonder if they will suffer the same fate. The only ones that stood the sun were the original vehicle tax vignettes we had to replace every year with a different coloured one.
Weāve had ours since 2017 (?) whenever they first came outā¦ not faded so far, but we donāt park our cars facing the sun if at all possible in any caseā¦
Probably - I would imagine itās just ordinary commercial printer ink - but at ā¬4 a pop itās not too much of a hardship to order a new one.
Iāve had to re-order mine several times - once when I changed cars, once when the UK MOT bloke helpfully removed it from my windscreen (thereās another thread about that!) and also for my motorbike when within 48 hours of me getting it some oik in Slough removed it from the licence holder while I was parked up. 
Our last car had swiss motorway stickers and a critāair sticker that had been on the windscreen for many years and still ok. The swiss ones of course were still perfect. They are slightly plastified which maybe is what saves them.
4 euro a pop today,they will become a cash cow in years to come when every town demandes a sticker.
At ā¬4 a pop I think theyāre more a cash calf than a cash cow.
I ordered the crit-air sticker 2 hours ago and have just received the printable copy of the sticker, so if you do need the sticker at short notice you donāt have to worry about it arriving in time for your travels and the permanent sticker will be at your address when you return. ā¬4 is probably only the handling fee to run the service, not the grift called the ULEZ which the UK have to live with.
If you keep the pdf/whatever the printable copy isā¦ on your computerā¦ you can print it out, as many times as might be necessaryā¦ over the life of the carā¦ eg if the sticker fades???
just thinking aloudā¦
I am not sure if the printable copy is valid after you have received the new sticker as it says, Le coupon ci-dessous justifie le classement du vĆ©hicule dans lāattente de la rĆ©ception du certificat qualitĆ© de lāair par courrier. (The coupon below justifies the classification of the vehicle pending receipt of the air quality certificate by mail)
Fair enoughā¦ whatever, itās still good value for moneyā¦ and peace of mind.
For the moment! Its an untapped revene source that will be used as a supplemental tax iin years to come.
You only need the one - it is for all of France
and stays with the car.
It will be at the discretion of each town to set the limits. I.e. only crit air 1 and 2 or up to crit air 4 being allowed.
thereāve been a few interesting discussions/articles about towns allowing their Residents with banned/bad vehicles to take to the roads of their home town for essential travel (eg medical/groceries).
no details at present, just being muted as itās been made clear the Town Residents, who canāt afford to upgrade their vehicle, shouldnāt be discriminated againstā¦