Hello, I’ll go to Germany by car next weekend. I have bought the green badge (edit : Umweltplakette) that should be applied on the windshield. The badge has been purchased with the details of the vehicle (license plate, VIN,…).
Question : since I probably won’t go to Germany again in the coming years, can I paste the vignette onto some transparent plastic sheet and paste the plastic on the windshield ? So that I can remove it after my trip, and put it again in a few years for the next visit ? I don’t want to reduce the visibility because of another vignette. I already have the French CritAir, the Swiss, … my windshield starts to looks like those laptops full of stickers.
What’s the risk ? Since I have the vignette legally paid ?
It’s perfectly legal.
There is just the risk of damaging the sticker. They are not made for peeling of and then sticking again.
But if you break the sticker, you can simply buy a new one. Your right to have the sticker is in the vehicle’s documents.
As someone else said in this thread, it’s not legal. And it’s surprisingly expensive, fines for not having the sticker is roughly 100 Euros. I believe getting caught doing what OP has suggested will be fined just the same.