Vehicle registration plates of Croatia

Standard Croatian license plate used on both private and commercial vehicles. ZD stands for Zadar. The left-most emblem is a custom sticker.

The standard license plates in Croatia consist of a two-letter city code which is separated by Coat of Arms of Croatia from three or four numbers and one or two letters.

Overview

There is also a possibility of having a customized plate for a fee. One type of customized plate looks exactly like the standard ones, with the exception that the combination of numbers and letters is personally chosen by the vehicle's owner. The other kind of customized plates can consist of a word with from four to seven letters or a combination of the word with four or five letters and one or two numbers. However, these plates are still quite rare in Croatia, mostly because they can only be used for five years after the first registration and they also require a fee of 8,000 kuna (over 1000 euros).

There are also some special plates. While the numbers and letters on standard license plates are colored black, plates for foreign citizens permanently living in Croatia, international organizations and temporary registered vehicles have green numbers and letters. On the plates used on bigger trucks and other vehicles that can be oversized for some of the smaller roads, the numbers and letters are red.

A Croatian police vehicle sporting a typical blue-on-white police registration plate

The police vehicles are equipped with the plates consisting of six numbers divided in two groups and separated by the Coat of Arms of Croatia, the color of numbers being blue. First group of numbers denote police department to which the vehicle belongs. While the background on all of these plates is colored white, on those used on military vehicles it is yellow. However, the system of dividing numbers and letters is the same as on the standard plates, but instead of a city code there are letters HV for Hrvatska vojska (Croatian military). At the same time, specialized military vehicles have the letters VP for vojna policija or MP for military police (military police) as the final two letters. Plates for diplomatic representatives (embassies, consulates) are blue with yellow numbers and letters. First three number denote country, followed by letter A, C, or M, then serial number of vehicle.

As opposed to all above mentioned plates that are made of metal, the dealer's test plates are made of paper and usually stuck in the right corner of a front windshield and rear window. These plates consist of a city code separated by the coat of arms from five numbers divided in two groups and they can be used for only five days after the purchase of a vehicle.

City codes

BJ - Bjelovar BM - Beli Manastir ČK - Čakovec DA - Daruvar DE - Delnice DJ - Đakovo DU - Dubrovnik GS - Gospić IM - Imotski KA - Karlovac KC - Koprivnica KR - Krapina KT - Kutina KŽ - Križevci MA - Makarska NA - Našice NG - Nova Gradiška

OG - Ogulin OS - Osijek PU - Pula PŽ - Požega RI - Rijeka SB - Slavonski Brod SK - Sisak SL - Slatina ST - Split ŠI - Šibenik VK - Vinkovci VT - Virovitica VU - Vukovar VŽ - Varaždin ZD - Zadar ZG - Zagreb ŽU - Županja

Obsolete codes

• KN - Krapina - previously used on Yugoslav plates, but never on plates in independent Croatia, lest the code would be mistaken for Knin, capital of, at the time extant, separatist Republic of Serbian Krajina. Krapina was asigned the new code KR, previously (and currently) used for Kranj, Slovenia.
• PS - Slatina - not issued any more since the city changed its name from Podravska Slatina to Slatina in 1992. Accordingly, Slatina has new city code SL; however, licence plates with PS code are still valid and can be seen on cars^[when?]
• SP - Požega - previously used on Yugoslav plates, but never on plates in independent Croatia since the city changed its name from Slavonska Požega to Požega in 1991. Accordingly, Požega has the new city code PŽ.

Sources

• "Pravilnik o registraciji vozila" (in Croatian). Ministry of Internal Affairs (Croatia). 2006. http://www.mup.hr/929.aspx. Retrieved 2011-09-02. 

External links

Media related to License plates of Croatia at Wikimedia Commons