Apply for parking concessions for people with severe disabilities ("blue parking permit")

Severely disabled people with an exceptional walking disability (sign aG), bilateral amelia or phocomelia or with comparable functional impairments as well as blind people can obtain an exemption ("blue parking permit").

Only people with a blue parking permit may park in disabled parking spaces with a wheelchair symbol. The "blue parking permit" is valid in all countries of the European Union.

If you have a "blue parking permit", you have the following Beauthorisations (if there is no other parking option within a reasonable distance):

• Parking in car parks specially marked with an additional "wheelchair user symbol" sign (disabled personsnparking spaces)
• Parking for up to three hours in places where the sign iserestricted stopping ban is in place.
  The arrival time must be indicated on a parking disc
• Exceeding the authorised parking time in the area eiof a no-parking zone
• Parking beyond the authorised time in places whereeparking is permitted, but an additional sign has been placedea parking time limit is imposed by an additional sign
• Parking during loading times in pedestrian areas where loading and unloading is authorised for certain timeseis authorised
• Parking for up to three hours in car parks for residentseresidents' car parks. The arrival time must be indicated on a parking disc
• Parking without charge and time limit at car parkshand parking ticket machines
• Parking in designated traffic-calmed areas outside the marked parking bays, if you do not use the parking baysbtraffic (especially moving traffic) if you do not obstruct other trafficndisproportionately affect other traffic.

You must display the parking permit clearly behind the windscreen and always carry it with you. With the exemption permit, you may also park free of charge in customer car parks at Deutsche Bahn AG railway stations.