Serbia

SRB

Plates show the city of registration.

Current plate formats

StandardSince 2011
BG 123-AB
Two-letter registration area code (BG = Belgrade, NS = Novi Sad, NI = Niš), the Serbian shield, three or four digits, a hyphen and two letters, on a white plate with a blue strip at the left edge showing SRB. The area code is a city or a group of municipalities around it (BG covers the 17 city municipalities of Belgrade). The serial letters use the Serbian Latin alphabet plus X; since 2017 the hooked letters (Ć, Č, Š, Ž, Đ) and Y and W are no longer issued in the serial. Area codes themselves can carry a hook (ŠA Šabac, VŠ Vršac).
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TaxiCurrent
BG 12345-TX
Taxi plates look like the civilian ones with the area code first, the shield, five digits and TX as the serial letters.
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DiplomaticCurrent
123-A-456
Two or three digits for the country or organisation, a letter for the status of the owner (A diplomat, M accredited non-diplomatic staff, P foreign press or cultural representative) and three digits of serial. Yellow characters on black for diplomats; black on yellow for press, cultural and company vehicles. The area code (BG for Belgrade) is printed small and upright at the left, and the year of validity at the right.
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Each code opens a page with the region it stands for.

2011
New plates with a city code, the Serbian shield and a serial, issued from 1 January 2011 and used alongside the old ones until the end of 2011.
2017
Plates with the hooked letters (Ć, Č, Š, Ž, Đ) and the letters Y and W in the serial are no longer issued.
2022
Under the EU-brokered agreement of 23 November 2022 Serbia stops issuing new plates with Kosovo city names (ĐA, GL, KM, PE, PR, PZ, UR); plates already issued stay in use.

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