The Government of Kosovo has announced that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has issued a decision that enables citizens to switch from driver’s licenses issued by illegal Serbian institutions in Kosovo to official ones issued by the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo. “For a long time we have accepted your requests for making such a decision. We want to relieve our citizens of the daily problems they face”, said Prime Minister Albin Kurti, through an address in Serbian.
“Transition to the driver’s license of the Republic of Kosovo enables easy and practical registration of vehicles”, the Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo announced on Tuesday, in a press release, in which the link to Kurti’s video address was attached. The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the transition to an RKS driver’s license does not require a repetition of the exam to obtain a driver’s license, “but only an application, which every citizen must submit to the Equipment Center with documents”.
The documents that must be included in the application, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, are the identity card, the original driver’s license issued by the Serbian authorities, the health certificate for equipment with the driver’s license, proof of tax payment and the original driver’s license issued by UNMIK or RKS “if the application is made for the addition of categories, which is also made possible through this decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs”.
The Kosovo authorities have announced that this decision enters into force on May 9 and is valid until August 9, 2024.
Days ago, the European Union said that it remains in the position expressed earlier that in Kosovo it supports only a single institutional and administrative structure, according to the legal framework of Kosovo. But, at the same time, the bloc stated that the issue of institutions supported by Serbia should be resolved through the establishment of the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority. The issue of Serbian institutions in Kosovo was raised during the last meeting of the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels on April 25, when the issue of the Serbian dinar was discussed. During the meeting, the Serbian side requested that all Serbian institutions, which Kosovo considers illegal, continue to be financed by Belgrade until the Association is established.
