I.-For the application of the second paragraph of I of article L. 2213-4-1, administrative air quality monitoring zones defined pursuant to article R. 221-3 of the Environment Code, in which one of the limit values relating to nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter PM10 or particulate matter PM2, 5 mentioned in article R. 221-1 of the Environment Code is not complied with for at least three of the last five years.
II.-The municipalities or public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax authority whose president has the power to police traffic are considered not to be regularly complying with the air quality limit values when their territory is included in whole or in part in an administrative air quality monitoring zone mentioned in I.
The obligation to set up a low-emission mobility zone provided for in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 2213-4-1 is met on the territory of the public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax authority concerned when the low-emission mobility zone studied in application of the second paragraph of 3° of II of the article L. 229-26 of the Environment Code.
III.-Municipalities or public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax authority whose president has the power to police traffic which demonstrate, by modelling or by measurements carried out in accordance with Article R. 221-3 of the Environment Code, that the limit values mentioned in I are respected for at least 95% of the population of each municipality concerned, are not considered to regularly exceed the air quality standards.
IV.-Without prejudice to III, communes or public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status whose president has the power to police traffic are not considered to regularly exceed air quality standards if they can demonstrate that the measures put in place, particularly those provided for under an atmospheric protection plan drawn up in application of article L. 222-4 of the Environment Code, make it possible to achieve the limit values mentioned in I for the entire population of each municipality concerned, in a shorter timeframe than those resulting from the establishment of a low mobility emission zone.
V.-The provisions of III and IV do not apply to metropolitan areas within the meaning of article L. 5217-1, the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis, the Greater Paris metropolis, the Lyon metropolis and the communes located within their territory.