Vehicle registration plates of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bosnia and Herzegovina vehicle registration plates have held their current form since 1998. Currently the BiH vehicle registration consists of seven characters; six numbers and one letter arranged in the following order 000 - X - 000. The plates are uniform across the country and do not denote the place (town, municipality, canton or entity) where the vehicle is registered, as was the case prior to 1998. Likewise the plates also do not contain any heraldic symbols.

The revised registration plates were introduced as an initiative of the International High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Carlos Westendorp (See, Decision on the Deadlines for the Implementation of the New Uniform Licence Plate System, 20 May 1998). In an Office of the High Representative report prior to the decision, it had been noted that police conduct around the Inter Entity Boundary Line separating the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, had been the "greatest obstacle to freedom of movement", including intimidation and arbitrary fines (See 5th Report of the High Representative, s. 85). Elsewhere it has been noted that vehicles which bore licence plates from one entity would be subject to vandalism in the other entity^[1]. The development of licence plates which would not serve as proxy identifiers of driver ethnicity was a partial solution to these problems^[2].

[edit] References

^ Dahlman, C. and Ó Tuathail, G. (2000) The legacy of ethnic cleansing: the international community and the returns process in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Political Geography 24(5): 569-99.
^ Aitchison, A. (2007) Police Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: State, Democracy and International Assistance. In: Policing and Society 17(4): 321-43.

[edit] BiH city auto plates code

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Sarajevo, SA	Prijedor, PJ	Banja Luka, BL	Tuzla, TZ	Mostar, MO	Sanski Most, SM	Brčko, BK
Mrkonjic Grad, MG	Bosanska Dubica, BD	Travnik, TK	Zenica, ZA	Bihać, BC	Doboj, DJ	Kljuc, KJ