Tyre ice grip
The tyre met the minimum ice grip index. Like snow grip it is pass or fail, with no grade.
- What it looks like on the label
- An ice-grip pictogram at the bottom of the tyre label, printed only on tyres that pass the ice test (alone or next to the snow pictogram).
- Printed on
- Tyre
- Unit
- none — present or absent
- Regulation
- Regulation (EU) 2020/740, Annex II (content and format), Annex I (grading)
What the regulation says
On a tyre label
- What the number measures
- Pass/fail against the minimum ice grip index.
- Unit
- none — present or absent
- Test condition
- “reliable, accurate and reproducible methods, including, where appropriate, international standards” (Annex I, Part E).
Regulation (EU) 2020/740, Annex I, Part E; Annex II, points 1.4 and 1.5 (label): The tyre label of a tyre which satisfies the relevant minimum ice grip index values shall include the following pictogram.
Checked 2026-09-25.
Other icons on the tyre label
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2020/740 — Regulation (EU) 2020/740 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 2020 on the labelling of tyres with respect to fuel efficiency and other parameters. Label content: Annex II (content and format), Annex I (grading). Article 18: “It shall apply from 1 May 2021.” Checked 2026-09-25.
Read in the Official Journal text on the date shown. Our drawing is not the official pictogram; the regulation’s own label figure is the authority.