Registration of a vehicle with foreign country’s registration plates

What

If you have vehicle with foreign country’s registration plates, it can stay in the country for a three months without temporary registration plates. If you want to stay for a longer period, you will need to re-registration of the vehicle. Also you can do a temporary registration but no longer than for a one year period.

Who

If you are a foreign citizen or you are a domestic citizen who lives in the foreign country or you want to buy a vehicle from the other country.

How

If you want to do a re-registration, you can submit documents at Police administration in your local government unit. You will need to prepare several documents:

• Driving licence as a proof of the origin of the vehicle
• Certificate of vehicle testing (uverenje o ispitivanju vozila) which you can get at Agency of traffic security (Agencija za bezbednost saobraćaja)
• Unique customs document (jedinstvena carinska isprava)
• Calculation of customs debt (obračun carinskog duga)
• Compulsory insurance (polisa obaveznog osiguranja)
• Registration paper (Registracioni list)
• Proof of payment of the prescribed fees and the other obligations prescribed by the law and other regulations based on the law
• Proof of the way of vehicle entering the country.With foreign registration plates or with a tow. (potvrda na koji način je to vozilo ušlo u zemlju).

When

As soon as possible. You can drive free vehicle with foreign country’s registration plates only for a three months.

Where

You can do the registration at the nearest Police administration.
List of all police department in the RS (available in Serbian – Latin language)

Belgrade, Serbia