Citizens pay around 5 million KM annually for car stickers that serve no one

Drivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been struggling with vehicle registration for several weeks. The country is facing a shortage of car sticker decals. Instead of stickers, authorities issue drivers certificates as a replacement for the decals. No one in Bosnia and Herzegovina can confirm with certainty when this problem will be resolved, reports the Patria agency.

The Agency for Identification Documents, Registers and Data Exchange (IDDEEA) initiated the procurement procedure for interior stickers in March last year, but the process has not been completed to date because one of the bidders filed a complaint after the tender was concluded, which was only considered recently.

What are stickers and who do they even serve? Traffic experts explain that the car stickers used in Bosnia and Herzegovina are of no use to anyone. Yet, a driver pays five KM for a sticker when registering a vehicle. With nearly a million cars in Bosnia and Herzegovina, drivers pay around five million KM every year.
The idea was for the police to use stickers to monitor whether a vehicle is registered. In practice, this does not work. A police officer who stops a vehicle sees the validity of the registration in the vehicle registration document, and drivers will confirm that the police never even pay attention to the stickers.

It is unclear why the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not initiate a procedure to abolish the use of stickers, since they serve no one. The answer may lie precisely in the fact that the company that prints the stickers collects around five million KM from citizens annually, reports Patria.