KOSOVO: CARS WITH ‘RKS’ PLATES ONLY ON STREETS AS OF TODAY

MITROVICA, KOSOVO, DECEMBER 16 (ONASA-FoNet) – In Kosovo, the deadline for switching from “KM” to “RKS” license plates expired yesterday, the fourth in a row, and according to the deputy director of the police for the North region, Veton Eljšani, until now 3,400 vehicles were re-registered.
On the streets of the northern municipalities, there are almost no “KM” plates anymore, and if there are any left, it will no longer be possible to drive with them from today, reports KoSSev.
The police will warn the drivers and fine them, and those who ignore them will then be punished by confiscating their vehicles.
The issue of license plates, which Serbia issues for the cities of Kosovo, has caused a series of crises in the past two years, as well as the exit of Serbs from Kosovo’s institutions in the north in November 2022.
Originally, on July 31, 2022, barricades were erected due to the issuance of license plates, and in November of the same year, Serbs left the institutions of Kosovo in the north, as the director of police for the northern region, Nenad Đurić, was suspended.
Đurić refused to implement the decision of the Government of Kosovo on the re-registration of cars with Serbian license plates in “RKS”.
On November 23, 2022, in dialogue with the mediation of the European Union, Kosovo and Serbia reached an agreement on license plates approved by the Serbian authorities for cities in Kosovo.
The plan of the Government of Kosovo from October last year stipulated that from April 21, 2023, only cars with “RKS” license plates would be allowed to drive. (end)