Vehicle registration plates of Montenegro

Montenegrin car plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with a blue strip on the left. Car, but not motorcycle, plates follow the 520 mm x 110 mm format. The old Yugoslav plate format was phased out from 6 June 2008 in favour of this format, which is on par with the common European Union format.

Montenegrin registration plate
Previous design

Overview

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The plate is in following layout: to the left, a blue-colored field contains Montenegro's international automobile code (MNE); continuing in white background, the two-letter code of the municipality where the vehicle was registered in, then the coat-of-arms of Montenegro following by the registration code, which generally consists of two letters followed by three numbers. However, it is possible to pay for customized plates with any letter-number combination.

Letters I and O are omitted in serial combinations because of the similarity with the numbers 1 and 0, but they can be used on a customized plate amongst other letters which are omitted: W, X, Y, Q and Serbo-Croatian Latin Alphabet letters (Č,Ć,Š,Đ,Ž).

Police vehicles have plates with blue letters, while military vehicles have plates with green letters. The diplomatic corps cars have licence plates in a different format, with no municipality code, coat of arms, and with yellow code on white background. The plates used on bigger trucks and other vehicles that can be oversized for some of the smaller roads are red with white characters.

Unlike the older licence plates inherited from the SFRY-era, and slightly changed in 1998, the licence plates have a separate area code for every municipality in Montenegro. The municipalities that were previously absent were Andrijevica, Danilovgrad, Kolašin, Mojkovac, Plav, Plužine, Rožaje, Šavnik, Tivat and Žabljak.

Municipal codes

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Map of Montenegrin plate codes.
 
License plate for mopeds

These are the Montenegrin car license plate codes by municipality and in alphabetical order:[1]

Car plate code Location Image
AN Andrijevica  
BA Berane  
BD Budva  
BP Bijelo Polje  
BR Bar  
CT Cetinje  
DG Danilovgrad  
GS Gusinje  
HN Herceg Novi  
KL Kolašin  
KO Kotor  
MK Mojkovac  
NK Nikšić  
PG Podgorica  
PL Plav  
PT Petnjica  
Plužine  
PV Pljevlja  
RO Rožaje  
ŠN Šavnik  
TV Tivat  
TZ Tuzi  
UL Ulcinj  
ZT Zeta  
ŽB Žabljak  

Special types

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Diplomatic license plates

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Diplomatic plate (53 – Norway)
 
Diplomatic plate owned by a foreign press agency

Vehicles operated by foreign embassies, consulates, consular and diplomatic staff and various international organizations have been given plates with a distinguishing format of two (or three) numbers, one letter, three numbers, e.g., 12(3)–X–456. Vehicle owned by a diplomat, by accredited non-diplomatic staff or by a consular carries a plate with characters printed in yellow on a white background while the vehicle owned by a foreign press agency, a foreign cultural representative or by an office of a foreign company and/or its staff, has plates with characters printed in black on a white background, as normal ones.
The first group of two/three numbers (123) identifies the country or organization to which the plate has been issued, the second group of three numbers (456) is a serial number. The letter in the middle (X) is denoting the status of the owner.

Code Explanation
A
vehicle is owned by a diplomat
M
vehicle is owned by accredited non-diplomatic staff – Mission
P
vehicle is owned by a foreign press agency or a foreign cultural representative – Press
E
vehicle is owned by an office of a foreign company and/or its staff – Economy
C
vehicle is owned by a consulate or their staff which have consular status – Consul
CMD
additional oval plate for vehicles used by the chief of a diplomatic mission – Chef de Mission Diplomatique
CD
additional oval plate for vehicles used by a person with diplomatic status – Corps Diplomatique

List of codes by country (not complete):

Code Country
10   Russia
11   Turkey
12   Albania
16   Belgium
18   Bosnia and Herzegovina
20   China
25   Bulgaria
26   Czech Republic
30   United Kingdom
32   Finland
33   Sweden
34   Denmark
35   France
36   The Netherlands
40   Germany
41   Italy
43    Switzerland
44   Austria
45   Greece
53   Norway
55   Hungary
60   USA
62   Slovakia
63   Canada
65   Poland
69   Ukraine
70   Serbia
75   Romania
80   Slovenia
85   Bosnia and Herzegovina
86   Japan
90   Croatia
95   North Macedonia
96   Georgia
100   EU
101 ECPD
102 UNWFP
105 EAR
110   United Nations
111 OSCE
112 ICRC

Agricultural plates

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Montenegro agricultural plate

Agricultural machines such as tractors have Montenegrin agricultural plates with white characters on a light-green background. The plates bear the two-letter code of the municipality where the vehicle is registered followed by the coat-of-arms of Montenegro, with two letters and two digits below.

Government codes

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These plate formats are very similar to civilian plates.

  • P – Police
  • V – Military
Police plate
Military plate


Temporary plates

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Temporary license plate

Temporary license plates show after the coat of arms the letters RP over each other as well as a two digit representing year number. RP means registrovan privremeno which means registered temporarily. The license plate concludes with three digits. Temporary plates are used among other possible uses for vehicles owned by temporary residents.


Plates for oldtimers

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Montenegro also has special plates for oldtimers. These plates are issued only to certified oldtimers which have passed a thorough inspection. The plates consist of two-letter code of the municipality where the vehicle is registered, then the coat-of-arms of Montenegro followed by OT letter combination and three serial numbers. The characters are printed in black on a brown background.

Specific serial combinations

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Podgorica (T-Tuzi/Malesia)
 
Podgorica (G-Golubovci/Zeta)

In Podgorica amongst normal serial combinations exist two more which are used for two urban municipalities. One of them is Tuzi/Malesia located eastern of Podgorica and uses combination PG Tx123 (e.g. PG TD123). The other one is Golubovci/Zeta located south of Podgorica and uses combination PG Gx123 (e.g. PG GD123). Trailers registered in one of these urban municipalities also have specific combinations e.g. PG 123TA.
Also, there exist two other combinations like PG MN123 and PG CG123. MN stands for Montenegro and CG also for Montenegro but on Montenegrin language (Crna Gora). These two combinations are only used by state authorities and Montenegrin administrations.
Another common practice is special second letter pair for taxi service cars, regional independent. Like PG TX123 or KO TX456.

References

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