Over 148 thousand unregistered cars challenge Green Carton

First of all, Kosovo is not a member state of the United Nations Organisation (OKB), and secondly, in Kosovo there are a large number of unregistered vehicles, which are even unsurpassed in circulation, which makes it impossible to secure the Green Carton.

Green Carton confirms that a vehicle benefits considerably from coverage of security responsibility. Thus, when a car is involved in an accident in the territory of a state worth the Green Carton system, security covers the cost (of injury, damage, etc).

Blerim Pushcoli, executive director at the Kosovo Insurance Bureau (BKS) in a response to Radio Free Europe, said the other preconditions required by the Council of Bureaus in 2011 have been fulfilled since the application for membership was submitted.

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The council at the time, recalls Pushcoli, had demanded that Kosovo adopt the Law on Obligation of Auto-responsibilities, the establishment of the Kosovo Bureau of Security and the Information Centre, as well as the Guarantee Fund in the amount of 4m euros, conditions that, according to him, have been met.

But besides Kosovo's failure to join the UN, the very serious problem, says Pushkoli, represents the number of unregistered vehicles. It requires dedication by the Kosovo Road Police Directorate, as well as by other state institutions for the issue to be regulated in both European Union countries.

The current BKS focus is on reducing this number of unregistered cars, as it is presented as one of the technical preconditions for Kosovo's membership in the Green Carton system.

However, according to the BKS, in order to achieve this, the percentage should be no less than 2 percent of unregistered and dry cars. Currently, this number according to the BKS results in between 35 and 50,000.

Even the executive director of the Insurance Society, Sami Mazrek, says that the number of unregistered vehicles, except that it poses problems in securing Green Carton, poses a serious risk to the lives of citizens, since such vehicles have not been subjected to technical control as mandatory legal action before the vehicle registration.

Therefore, he says, it is imperative that the country's institutions, in this case the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MPB), issue regulations or even instructions through which it requires citizens who do not use cars, update, until those who use them record them.

To bring order in this direction, practices exist and we just have to get and implement”, Mazreku said.

The directorate for recording vehicles in co-operation with the Traffic Police is working in that direction so that fines for the owners of the tools that do not declare the means where it is located after the census expired are said in a response to Radio Free Europe, by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The number of unregistered cars on Kosovo's territory, according to this ministry, is 148 thousand, and of unregistered cars 51 thousand. Meanwhile, registered vehicles, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are 356 thousand.

However, until Kosovo's membership in the Council of the Bureaus of Europe, all cars with foreign signs that enter Kosovo's territory, according to laws in force, must pay a sum for border insurance fees, depending on the type of vehicle and time of stay in Kosovo.

According to data from the Kosovo Bureau of Insurance, revenues from Border Security properties for 2019 have been around 7.7m euros, while paying damages paid for the same period results in 7.9m euros.