Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Limited traffic zone
Official name Pješačke zone i ulice zabranjene za odvijanje saobraćaja u Kantonu Sarajevo
In force in Sarajevo right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Sarajevo
This encoding says when the restriction is in force, not where you are. We do not hold the zone as geometry and the act names no street — Article 42 leaves the prohibitions to the Ministry to prescribe, and they reach the driver on a sign — so the warning is at city level and the boundary has to be read on the ground.
The hours that appear in the act are conditions on permitted activity, not windows in the ban, and they are deliberately not encoded. Supply until 09:00 and the refuse-collection windows apply to vehicles that already hold a permit; encoding them would tell an unpermitted driver they may enter at 08:00, which is the opposite of the rule.
The maximum time a permitted vehicle may stand inside a pedestrian zone is set by the individual rješenje, not by the statute, so no limit is encoded. A driver who holds a permit must read the permit.
No weekday, weekend or public-holiday rule is encoded, because the act names none. Bosnia and Herzegovina has public holidays and this instrument does not mention one; no Bosnian holiday calendar is held in this corpus, and inventing an exemption would be worse than having none.
Being inside the hours is not the same as being in the scheme. The trigger is the place — a pedestrian zone or a street signed as closed to traffic — and then the vehicle: a permit may not be issued above 3,500 kg except in specially justified cases.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Sarajevo's restricted zone is a permission, not a price, and the permission is issued by the canton rather than by the city.
Chapter VI of the Zakon o uređenju saobraćaja na području Kantona Sarajevo is headed 'Zone sa ograničenim saobraćajem motornih vozila', and Article 43 as it stands after the 2021 amendment says the whole of it in one sentence: in pedestrian zones, or in streets closed to traffic, vehicles may exceptionally move and stand only where that has been allowed by a rješenje of the Ministry — the Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo.
There is no free hour and no grace period. The permit is applied for on a named form, it is issued for the current calendar year at longest, and it comes with an iskaznica, an identity card for the vehicle that the traffic police may take away and that is then refused for the rest of the year if the conditions on it are abused.
Article 44 lists who may ask: cleaning and waste collection, utility maintenance, pest control, electrical and telecoms work, supply of shops, markets, restaurants and hotels, delivery of gas and firewood, furniture removals, building materials and construction waste, money and post, state, cantonal, city and religious protocol, religious events, event and broadcast equipment, transport of disabled and sick people, undertakers, security firms, embassy cars, residents who own a garage or a yard used for parking inside those streets, official vehicles of state, entity, cantonal and local bodies, and anything else where the applicant proves the case.
Three limits bound what a permit can buy. The vehicle's maximum mass may not exceed 3,500 kg, except that electric-traction vehicles up to 2,000 kg with a trailer up to 600 kg on soft tyres may be allowed, and heavier goods vehicles only in specially justified cases and with the pavement physically protected.
Speed inside a pedestrian zone may not exceed walking pace — the 2021 amendment replaced the earlier figure of 10 km/h with that phrase, so a driver who reads the 2017 text alone reads a number that no longer exists. And the maximum time the vehicle may stand is not in the statute at all: the rješenje itself sets it. Two things a driver of an ordinary car should know.
First, no permit is needed by a vehicle with right of way under Article 126 of the national road-safety act — ambulance, fire, police. Second, this scheme reads the vehicle's mass and the driver's errand; it never reads the engine. There is no Euro class, no fuel test and no age limit anywhere in it.
The fine for driving in without the rješenje is a range rather than a figure: 50 KM to 250 KM for the driver, set by Article 105 as replaced in 2022. Where the zones are is the part this record cannot draw. The statute does not name a street: Article 42 leaves the prohibitions and restrictions to the Ministry to prescribe, and they reach the driver on a traffic sign.
The one a visitor actually meets is the Baščaršija core of Općina Stari Grad, closed by retractable bollards, and Article 44(4) makes that a two-key lock — the Ministry's rješenje plus the prior consent of the municipality's own services.
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — the ministry that issues these permits, on its own register of the regulations it applies. The row this record hangs on is 'Zakon o uređenju saobraćaja na području Kantona Sarajevo', legal source 'Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo', consolidated chain '30/17, 46/17, 1/22', with the base act and both amendments attached as free PDFs. That chain string is also this record's version pointer: a fourth amendment moves it
There is no daily charge in this scheme. Sarajevo does not sell a day's access to its pedestrian zones: Article 43(12) of the cantonal act says the fee for issuing the permit is to be fixed by a separate pravilnik, and the pravilnik prices a permit for the calendar year or for stated time slots, never for a day.
The instrument is the 'Pravilnik o naknadama za izdavanje odobrenja za kretanje vozila i zadržavanje u pješačkim zonama, ulicama zabranjenim za odvijanje saobraćaja i zadržavanje na trotoarima', published in Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 46/17 of 23 November 2017, and the ministry publishes its full text free.
Its Article 2 sets a fee per calendar year of 150.00 KM for a passenger vehicle, 250.00 KM for a goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes and 350.00 KM above it; a cheaper tier for a permit tied to defined time slots at 20.00, 35.00 and 50.00 KM; and a dearer tier for the heavier-duty categories of Article 44 at 200.00, 300.00 and 400.00 KM for the year, or 30.00, 45.00 and 60.00 KM in defined slots.
Certain vehicles pay nothing at all, among them those carrying disabled and sick people and up to four official cars of a permitted body. Those amounts are deliberately not published here as the price in force, and the reason is a measurement rather than a doubt.
The gazette's own title index shows a second instrument the ministry's register omits: 'Pravilnik o izmjeni Pravilnika o naknadama…', Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 49/17 of 14 December 2017, an amendment to this very fee schedule three weeks after it was made.
Its text is behind the gazette publisher's registration wall — the index row is free, the document is not — so we cannot say which of the figures above it changed, and we will not print a nine-year-old tariff as current merely because it is the copy that happens to be downloadable. We hold no figure for the fee in force. Not estimated.
What is certain, and comes from the ministry's own counter, is the shape: its downloads page offers exactly two application forms for this permit, one 'za tekuću kalendarsku godinu' and one 'u određenom trajanju za definisane termine', which is the annual tier and the time-slot tier of the pravilnik still in service.
This restriction has no timetable, and that is the fact rather than a gap. Article 43(1) of the cantonal act permits a vehicle to enter, move and stand in a pedestrian zone or a street closed to traffic only where a rješenje of the Ministry allows it, and it attaches no hour to the requirement: there is no part of the day or week when a driver may go in without one.
What the clock does govern is what a permit is worth once you hold it. The maximum time a vehicle may remain inside a pedestrian zone is not in the statute — Article 43(4) says it is to be set by the rješenje itself, so it is written on the individual permit and differs between them. Two hours are stated in the act and both are conditions on permitted activity rather than windows in the ban.
Article 40(3), as replaced in 2017, allows supply of premises inside pedestrian zones until 09:00 for the current day, on a Ministry permit or where a traffic sign says otherwise; Article 41, as amended, times refuse collection in the Stari Grad and Centar core at 09:00–11:00, 18:00–20:00 and through the night from 22:00 to 07:00.
A permit for building work has a different kind of limit, a calendar one: Article 43(10) caps a rješenje issued for construction traffic and materials at 30 days. Nothing in the act distinguishes a weekday from a weekend, and nothing in it names a public holiday. Bosnia and Herzegovina has public holidays; this instrument does not mention one, and no Bosnian holiday calendar is held in this corpus, so none is encoded.
The municipal layer that actually operates the bollards at Baščaršija does publish hours on its own application form, and they are not encoded here either, for the reason set out in the area field: the form is the 2017 edition and the municipality has twice legislated over it since.
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — the free full text of the Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o uređenju saobraćaja na području Kantona Sarajevo, adopted by the Skupština Kantona Sarajevo on 28 December 2021 and published in Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 1/22. This is the operative text: its Articles 28 to 32 replace Articles 42, 43, 44, 47 and 48 of the 2017 act in full, and Article 51 replaces the penalty article. A PDF, and machine-watched since 2026-09-18: the monitor reads its content streams (D-163)
The scheme is Canton Sarajevo, and the act draws no line inside it. Article 42, as replaced in 2021, says only that 'Ministarstvo propisuje zabrane i ograničenja saobraćaja na području Kantona' — the Ministry prescribes the prohibitions and restrictions for the canton's territory — so the zones exist as individual ministerial rješenja and reach the driver as traffic signs, not as a schedule of streets in the statute.
That is why this record's area is a description rather than a perimeter, and it is the Czech shape rather than the Belgrade one: there is no list to quote, not one we failed to find. Three things can be said about where it bites, and each is sourced.
First, the canton is the level that legislates: Kanton Sarajevo is administrative level 5 in OpenStreetMap, above Grad Sarajevo at level 6 and the four municipalities at level 7, and the ministry that issues the permits is the canton's.
Second, Article 44(4) adds a second lock inside the municipal cores: entering, moving and standing in the 'zone užeg jezgra' of the canton's municipalities needs the Ministry's rješenje under Article 43 and the prior consent of the municipality's own competent services. So the inner cores are governed twice over.
Third, the inner core a visitor actually meets is Baščaršija, in Općina Stari Grad Sarajevo, which has been closed to traffic by retractable and fixed bollards since May 2016 and is run on an access token.
The municipality's own application form, still published in its documents library, names six controlled points: ulica Bravadžiluk approached from Brodac and Vijećnica, ulica Halači, ulica Abadžiluk approached from Obala Kulina bana, ulica Kundurdžiluk approached from Zelenih beretki, Trg fra Grge Martića approached from Mula Mustafe Bašeskije, and ulica Prote Bakovića approached from the same street — and it sorts applicants into three token types, supply, business and garage.
That form is quoted here for the geography only, and its hours and time limit are deliberately left out of this record, because it is the 2017 edition and the municipality has legislated twice over it since: a Pravilnik in Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 11/24 of 21 March 2024 and an Odluka in 21/26 of 28 May 2026, both replacing the 2016 decision that the form implements.
Neither of those two texts could be read — the gazette publishes their index rows free and their bodies only to registered subscribers, and the municipality's own site does not carry them — so the current municipal conditions are not stated here at all.
Sarajevo is not the only municipality in the canton with such a zone: the same index shows Općina Ilijaš legislating for its 'Centar' pedestrian zone and Trg Alija Izetbegović in 19/26 of 14 May 2026. Nothing about Ilijaš is claimed in this record.
Općina Stari Grad Sarajevo — the municipality's own application form 'Zahtjev za izdavanje odobrenja za ulazak vozila u pješačku zonu na užem području Općine Stari Grad Sarajevo', published in its documents library and handled by the Služba za investicije i komunalne poslove. Held for one thing only, the six named access points and the three token types; its hours and its 90-minute limit are not used, because two later municipal instruments have replaced the decision it implements. A PDF, and machine-watched since 2026-09-18: the monitor reads its content streams (D-163)
There is no emission standard in this scheme for a petrol vehicle, because there is no emission standard in it at all.
The cantonal act reads three things off a vehicle and none of them is an exhaust: its maximum mass, which may not exceed 3,500 kg for a permit into a pedestrian zone; its traction, where an electric vehicle up to 2,000 kg gets its own allowance with a trailer up to 600 kg on soft tyres; and the errand it is on, which is what Article 44's list of twenty-odd cases is about.
Euro class, year of first registration, fuel and any emissions measurement appear nowhere in the act, nowhere in its two amendments and nowhere in the fee pravilnik, which prices by vehicle mass alone.
The word that comes closest is in Article 41(3), where refuse must be taken out of pedestrian zones by 'ekološkim vozilima' or by motor vehicles up to 3,500 kg — a duty on the waste operator, not a test a driver's car has to pass. A petrol car with a permit is admitted on the same terms as any other, and one without a permit is refused on the same terms as any other.
Not estimated: this is what the published text does not contain, read across the base act and both amendments in full.
Nor a diesel standard, and for the same measured reason: the question this scheme asks is where you are going and what the vehicle weighs, never what comes out of it. Nothing in the act, its amendments or the fee pravilnik separates diesel from petrol, sets a Euro floor or asks for a smoke-opacity result.
Sarajevo does have a winter air-pollution problem and the canton does legislate for it, but not here and not in this instrument — this is a pedestrian-zone access rule in a chapter headed 'Zone sa ograničenim saobraćajem motornih vozila', and a diesel car is treated by it exactly as a petrol one is. Not estimated.
The act sets the fine as a range rather than as a figure, and we do not turn a range into a number. Article 105 of the Zakon o uređenju saobraćaja na području Kantona Sarajevo, as replaced in full by Article 51 of the 2021 amendment, reads: 'Novčanom kaznom u iznosu od 50 KM do 250 KM kaznit će se za prekršaj fizičko lice - vozač vozila ako' — and its list runs to forty-odd paragraphs, of which three are this scheme.
Paragraph l) is acting contrary to Article 43, which is entering, moving or standing in a pedestrian zone or a closed street without the Ministry's rješenje. Paragraph m) is acting contrary to Article 44, the terms on which such a permit is given. Paragraph n) is acting contrary to Article 47, the mass limits.
So the driver of a car who ignores the sign at Baščaršija is liable to between 50 and 250 convertible marks, and where inside that band the penalty falls is not the act's to say. We hold no figure for a single amount because the publisher states none.
The sanction is separate from, and additional to, the loss of the permit: Article 48 as replaced in 2022 has a police officer of the cantonal MUP take away the rješenje and the iskaznica where their conditions are abused and send them to the Ministry, which is then the ground for refusing to reissue them for the rest of the calendar year.
Not estimated: both the range and the paragraphs are read from the amendment's own text.
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — 'Zahtjev i obrasci', the ministry's own downloads page for the forms a citizen files with it. It carries exactly two applications for this permit, one for the current calendar year and one for a stated duration in defined time slots, which is the annual tier and the slot tier of the fee pravilnik in the ministry's own words and is the evidence that the permit regime is operating rather than dormant
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — the free full text of the Zakon o uređenju saobraćaja na području Kantona Sarajevo, adopted by the Skupština Kantona Sarajevo on 5 July 2017 and published in Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 30/17 of 3 August 2017. The base act: Chapter VI 'Zone sa ograničenim saobraćajem motornih vozila' is Articles 42 to 48, and Article 112 brings the act into force on the eighth day after publication. Held as the base of the chain; its Articles 42, 43, 44, 47 and 48 have since been replaced and the replacements, not this text, are what this record states. A PDF, and machine-watched since 2026-09-18: the monitor reads its content streams (D-163)
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — the free full text of the first Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o uređenju saobraćaja na području Kantona Sarajevo, adopted 15 November 2017 and published in Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 46/17 of 23 November 2017. Held because it is what put the supply windows and the refuse-collection times into Articles 40 and 41, added the emergency-intervention exception to Article 47, and made the Article 44(5) permit fee a cantonal revenue line in Article 96. A PDF, and machine-watched since 2026-09-18: the monitor reads its content streams (D-163)
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — the free full text of the second Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o uređenju saobraćaja na području Kantona Sarajevo, adopted by the Skupština Kantona Sarajevo at its 47th working session on 28 December 2021 and published in Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 1/22 of 6 January 2022. This is the operative text of the scheme and the reason the 2017 act must not be read alone: Article 28 replaces Article 42, Article 29 replaces Article 43 in full and with it the speed limit (10 km/h becomes walking pace) and the documents list, Article 30 replaces Article 44 and renumbers every lettered case in it, Article 31 amends Article 47, Article 32 replaces Article 48, Article 44 moves the permit fee to Article 43(12), and Article 51 replaces the penalty article 105 with the 50-to-250 KM range this record publishes. A PDF, and machine-watched since 2026-09-18: the monitor reads its content streams (D-163)
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — the free full text of the 'Pravilnik o naknadama za izdavanje odobrenja za kretanje vozila i zadržavanje u pješačkim zonama, ulicama zabranjenim za odvijanje saobraćaja i zadržavanje na trotoarima', made by the cantonal minister of transport on 13 November 2017 under Article 102 of the act and published in Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo 46/17. Held for the structure of the fee rather than for its amounts: a fee per calendar year by vehicle mass, a cheaper tier for permits tied to defined time slots, a dearer tier for the heavier-duty cases, and a list of vehicles that pay nothing. Its figures are not published as current, because the gazette index shows an amendment to it, 49/17, that we could not read. A PDF, and machine-watched since 2026-09-18: the monitor reads its content streams (D-163)
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — 'Propisi Ministarstva', the ministry's own register of every regulation it applies, faceted by instrument type (Zakon, Uredba, Odluka ili rješenje, Pravilnik, Instrukcija, Uputstvo, Plan, Procedura, Ostalo) and by legal source (Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo, Službene novine FBiH, Službeni glasnik BiH, internal). Eight pages, enumerated in full, and the denominator for this record: it is where the act, both amendments and the fee pravilnik are published free, and where the consolidated chain '30/17, 46/17, 1/22' is stated. That chain string is the version pointer — a fourth amendment moves it, and the record falls to draft
JP NIO Službeni list Bosne i Hercegovine — the publisher of Službene novine Kantona Sarajevo, on its own title index over the gazette's whole archive. The search is a plain GET form on a host with no robots.txt at all, and it was controlled before it was trusted: 'budžet' returns 220 rows, 'zzqqxxyy' returns none, and 'danom objavljivanja' — a phrase in the body of almost every act it holds — returns none, which is how we know it indexes titles rather than full text. Held as the independent second denominator and as the reason two instruments are named in this record but not quoted: the ministry's own register omits 49/17, the amendment to its own fee pravilnik, and this index does not. It also names the Stari Grad decision of 21/26 and the Ilijaš decision of 19/26. The document bodies are behind a registration wall — the 'Pregled' link is a JavaScript login dialog with no document address in the markup — so this source bounds the chain without opening it
Ministarstvo saobraćaja Kantona Sarajevo — 'Zahtjev i obrasci', the ministry's downloads page. Two application forms for this permit, one for the current calendar year and one for a stated duration in defined time slots. Held as the evidence that the permit regime is in service and that the pravilnik's two tiers are the ones the counter actually uses
Općina Stari Grad Sarajevo — the municipality's own application form for entering the pedestrian zone in its narrower core, filed with its Služba za investicije i komunalne poslove. Held for the six named controlled entry points and the three token types only; its hours and its 90-minute limit are not used in this record, because the 2016 decision the form implements has been replaced by a pravilnik in 11/24 and an odluka in 21/26 that we could not read. A PDF, and machine-watched since 2026-09-18: the monitor reads its content streams (D-163)
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