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.
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, 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
These are the Montenegrin car license plate codes by municipality and in alphabetical order:Infos on www.worldlicenseplates.com
Car plate code Location Image Registered motor vehicles (2025) AN Andrijevica 1324 BA Berane 10136 BD Budva 18879 BP Bijelo Polje 15092 BR Bar 26741 CT Cetinje 8406 DG Danilovgrad 8178 GS Gusinje 1017 HN Herceg Novi 18200 KL Kolašin 2776 KO Kotor 15108 MK Mojkovac 2537 NK Nikšić 31053 PG Podgorica 104568 PL Plav 2801 PT Petnjica 1334 PŽ Plužine 747 PV Pljevlja 9929 RO Rožaje 7662 ŠN Šavnik 484 TV Tivat 12002 TZ Tuzi 5360 UL Ulcinj 12450 ZT Zeta 8481 ŽB Žabljak 1446
Special types Diplomatic license plates
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 vehicle is owned by a diplomat vehicle is owned by accredited non-diplomatic staff – Mission vehicle is owned by a foreign press agency or a foreign cultural representative – Press vehicle is owned by an office of a foreign company and/or its staff – Economy vehicle is owned by a consulate or their staff which have consular status – Consul additional oval plate for vehicles used by the chief of a diplomatic mission – Chef de Mission Diplomatique additional oval plate for vehicles used by a person with diplomatic status – Corps Diplomatique
List of codes by country (not complete):
Code Country1011121618202526303233343536404143444553 5560626365697075808586909596100101ECPD102UNWFP105EAR110111OSCE112ICRC
Agricultural plates
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 These plate formats are very similar to civilian plates.
P – Police V – Military
Temporary plates
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
License plates with CG and MN letter pairs are reserved for vehicles owned and operated by Government of Montenegro. Traditionally, PG CG001 is used by the President of Montenegro official state car.
License plates with TX starting letter pair are mandatory for registered taxi service vehicles in each municipality.
References
External links Licence plates in Montenegro