From Monday you won't be allowed to go north without recording

There is an end to unregistered vehicles, which circulate the northern streets of Kosovo from the end of the war until now, as Kosovo police will implement an operational plan in the north, under which all vehicles that circulate without registration signs will be confiscated.

In northern Kosovo municipalities, unsigned vehicles have been circulated, while sign cars have also been seen, which release temporary organs operating with Serbia's system. Within the framework of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia in 2012 in Brussels was the agreement for the registration tables under the Movement Freedom Agreement from 2011. With this agreement, all registration boards of Serbia's MUP in the cities of Kosovo should be removed. Thereafter, in 2016 the Belgrade and Pristina delegation had agreed that the validity of the neutral status signs “KS” to continue for 5 years.

Also then, the agreement was harmonised that on signs with “SRB” and “RKS” stick white tape during crossing border points from Kosovo to Serbia and vice versa. But this agreement has not been realised on the ground as people driving cars with registration signs “RKS” cannot cross the border with Serbia without temporary signs (approvatory), until car drivers with “signs KS” is allowed free passage. On the other hand, Serbs living in the south have registered their cars with Kosovo signs since it was achieved.

The agreement in Brussels for the car registration signs. Since then, Serb facilities in central Kosovo have largely removed registration signs, which Serbia's MUP has issued to Kosovo municipalities.

Kosovo police have announced that since 24 September, vehicles without registration signs will not be able to circulate through the streets of northern municipalities. According to police, Kosovo Police for the northern region will conduct increased control of vehicles, during which technically irregular vehicles and unregistered vehicles will be confiscated, while legal measures will be taken against those who run them.

In the Kosovo Police have said increased measures and control of vehicles, as well as other preventative measures are necessary primarily for the safety of citizens, in particular children, the reduction of accidents all in order to increase the safety of participants in communications.

This year's “from 24 September by police officials from the northern Mitrovica region will be undertaken police measures in all municipalities in the country's northern region to increase control of vehicles imported from abroad, as well as all cars that lack proper documentation and those that are unregistered.

On the basis of the Kosovo Regional Police Directorate's operational plan in the north, these vehicles will be removed from communications, while legal measures will be taken against those who run them in the sense of car seizures and prosecution of cases”, a Kosovo Police communiqué said.

Police have added that detail checks will also be made by traffic participants, either to verify the entire documentation of the driver of the vehicle (the driver's license, driver's license, security policy, etc.), as well as the communication participants' ability to run the vehicle (alcoolthest).
According to police, a large number of technically irregular vehicles imported from the outside world, vehicles without necessary circulation documents and unregistered vehicles are participating in northern Kosovo municipalities. One type of vehicle, according to police, is used for transportation of travelers as a taxi but also for other illegal jobs.

The technical irregularities of these vehicles have led to traffic accidents, which, in turn, had physical injuries, material damage, unfortunately some of them ended with fatality”, have reminded police. / Z WAR