Vehicle registration plates of Montenegro

Present Montenegrin car plates have black characters on a rectangular white background, with blue strip on the left. The plates follow the 520 mm x 110 mm format, except for motorcycles. The present licence plates format was introduced on 6 June 2008, and replaced the old format (format of Yugoslav licence plates) gradually over the following year. The new format is on par with common European Union format.

Montenegrin registration plate
Previous design

Overview

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, with an additional payment, it is possible to obtain the 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 separate format licence plates, 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, which were inherited from SFRY-era, and slightly changed in 1998, the new 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
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 LocationImage
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
PŽ Plužine
PV Pljevlja
RO Rožaje
ŠN Šavnik
TV Tivat
TZ Tuzi
UL Ulcinj
ŽB Žabljak

Special types

Diplomatic license plates
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.

CodeExplanation
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):

CodeCountry
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
Montenegro agricultural plate

Montenegro also has agricultural plates. These plates are used by agricultural machines like tractors etc. The plates consist of two-letter code of the municipality where the vehicle is registered, then the coat-of-arms of Montenegro followed by two serial letters and two serial numbers on the lower side. The characters are printed in white on a light-green background.

Government codes

These plate formats are very similar to civilian plates.

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


Temporary plates
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

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
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
  1. Infos on www.worldlicenseplates.com
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