Government extends deadline for car registration “PR”, “KM”, “PZ”, RKS license plate

The Kosovo government has held electronic meetings, in which it has changed and fulfilled Government No.0503's decision of October 28th 2022, extending the deadline for registration with financial benefits to auto owners with sentences “PR”, “KM”, “PZ”, “GL”, “UR”, “PE”, “DA” or “Until December 1, 2023.

The “This change comes from the recent large demand for registration of vehicles with RKS<1>, the prime minister announced.

The announcement reportedly envisions that after December 1, 2023, the owners of tools equipped with license plates “PR”, “KM”, “PZ”, “GL”, “UR”, “PE”, “DA” or “From June 10, 1999 to April 21, 2022, they will no longer have the opportunity to register these tools with license plates RKS, enter or circulate through and through the territory of the Republic of Kosovo.

The KM plates are issued by Serbian authorities, and after the agreement with Kosovo in November last year, the census is renovated under the Government of Serbia decree, without issued registration sheets.

Kosovo does not recognise such reregistering, which in practice would imply that those who registered their car with KM license plates in the Serbian system after November last year cannot move on Kosovo's territory.

The issue of removal of plates, which Serbia issues for Kosovo cities, has caused a series of crises in the past two years, as well as the removal of Serbs from Kosovo institutions in the north in November 2022.

The Kosovo Government's deadline for reregistering Serbian license plates in Kosovo has expired in April this year, but there are still a large number of KM license plates on the ground.

According to some estimates, by October 2022 in northern Kosovo municipalities there have been about 10,000 cars with KM license plates.