Belgrade, Serbia · Heavy vehicle ban
Official name Режим саобраћаја теретних и запрежних возила и снабдевање на територији града Београда
In force in Belgrade right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Belgrade
Two rules are encoded because the decision does two different things, and they overlap in space. The Article 4 streets sit inside the Article 2 zone, so a lorry can be under the permit requirement and under the absolute ban at the same moment. The ban is the one that cannot be bought off: no permit named in this decision opens Кнеза Милоша to a 7.5-tonne lorry at noon.
This encoding says when a restriction is in force, not where you are. We do not hold the zone as geometry — the city draws it with twenty-one street names — so the warning is at city level and a driver still has to read the boundary in the area field or ask the Secretariat.
No weekday, weekend or public-holiday rule is encoded, because the decision names none. It states hours and nothing else; Serbia has public holidays and this instrument does not mention one. Inventing an exemption would be worse than having none, and no Serbian holiday calendar is held in this corpus.
Being inside an hour is not the same as being in the scheme. The trigger is a maximum permitted laden mass above 3.5 tonnes AND the vehicle not being in transit. A car is never in it. A lorry passing through on the motorway is not in it either.
The permit windows themselves — 09:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 07:00 for supply inside the zone, 19:00 to 07:00 for parking, 00:00 to 24:00 for concrete mixers, 05:00 to 08:00 for supplying a pedestrian zone — are deliberately not encoded as rules. They are conditions written into an individual permit for a stated vehicle and often a stated route, not a timetable that applies to everyone, and encoding them would tell an unpermitted driver they may move at 20:00 when they may not.
Mladenovac has a separate timetable in Article 7, with its own named streets and its own hours, and it is not encoded. A driver heading there should read the decision itself.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Belgrade runs its freight rule as a permit regime with a hard ban inside it, and the two halves have to be read together.
The permit half: on the ten urban city municipalities — Вождовац, Врачар, Звездара, Земун, Нови Београд, Палилула, Раковица, Савски венац, Стари град and Чукарица — a goods vehicle whose maximum permitted laden mass exceeds 3.5 tonnes and which is NOT in transit may move, stop and park outside the established traffic regime only on the strength of a permit, issued as a решење by the city's Secretariat for Traffic.
Being in transit is the escape: a lorry driving through Belgrade on the motorway is not in this scheme at all, and the rule is aimed squarely at delivery and construction traffic with a destination in the city. What the permit then buys depends on the vehicle and on which side of a street-drawn line the destination sits.
Inside the central zone, a vehicle up to 12 tonnes supplying retail premises may move between 09:00 and 14:00 and between 18:00 and 07:00; a vehicle over 12 tonnes supplying building sites has the same two windows; concrete mixers supplying building sites may run at any hour; and specialised vehicles collecting used cooking oil and fat from catering premises may run from 19:00 to 07:00.
Outside that zone the same classes may move around the clock, and only the stopping and parking windows narrow. In every case a freight vehicle may stand on the carriageway while loading or unloading for no longer than fifteen minutes, and the permit itself may fix the exact route a named vehicle must take.
The ban half is Article 4 and it is not a permit question at all: a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes simply may not drive along Кнеза Милоша, Таковска, Коларчева, Теразије, Краља Милана, Славија, Булевар ослобођења between Славија and Бокељска, Војводе Степе, Булевар краља Александра between Трг Николе Пашића and Рузвелтова, Васина, Југ Богданова, Пожешка between Кировљева and Требевићка, Кировљева, Главна, or Трг Бранка Радичевића in Земун between 07:00 and 19:00.
Article 3 adds a bridge: nothing over 3.5 tonnes crosses the bridge in the extension of Бранкова street. Article 6 bars stopping and parking a freight vehicle at all on any street carrying a public-transport route during the same 07:00 to 19:00 hours.
Outside the ten urban municipalities the scheme does not stop — Младеновац has its own timetable in Article 7, and Барајево, Гроцка, Лазаревац, Обреновац, Сопот and Сурчин are covered by Article 8, where a permit is again the only way a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes leaves the established regime.
Two things a driver of a car should know and then forget: horse-drawn vehicles are banned across the whole city except on roads in farmland, and none of this touches a passenger car, whatever its engine or age. The scheme reads weight, not emissions.
Град Београд — Градска управа, Секретаријат за саобраћај, Сектор за градску логистику, the department that actually issues these permits, on its own page 'Одељење за послове снабдевања и кретања теретних моторних возила кроз град'. It states the 3.5 tonne threshold in the authority's own words, the procedure, the fee per vehicle per month and the supply window
There is no daily charge in this scheme, and that is the publisher's design rather than a gap in our reading. Belgrade does not sell access by the day: it charges a local administrative fee for an individual decision, and the tariff line is priced 'за текући месец' — for the current month. Two amounts are payable and both are published, by two independent publishers that agree to the dinar.
The city's own gazette carries them as Тарифни број 5 of the Одлука о локалним административним таксама, whose whole tariff schedule was replaced on 30 October 2025 and took effect on 1 January 2026; the Secretariat for Traffic's own department page repeats them.
A movement permit — 'Решење о кретању теретних моторних возила мимо утврђеног режима саобраћаја, за текући месец' — is 2,051.00 dinars, and the authority states in terms that it is charged per freight vehicle per month: one vehicle one fee, two vehicles two fees. A parking permit for a freight vehicle outside the established regime, on the same monthly basis, is 4,890.00 dinars.
On top of whichever of those applies, every application carries the general request fee of Тарифни број 1, point 1 — 405.00 dinars — charged once per request, and one request may cover several vehicles.
Dividing a month into days to produce a daily figure would be our arithmetic and not the city's, and it would be wrong in both directions: a haulier making one delivery pays the whole month, and a haulier making thirty pays it once. The amounts stay here in prose, where the conditions that govern them travel with them. Not estimated: every figure is read from the authority's own published tariff.
The clock does three different jobs in this scheme and they must not be blurred. First, the outright ban. On the streets named in Article 4 a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes may not drive at all from 07:00 to 19:00; from 19:00 to 07:00 it may move there, and may stop and park on the carriageway while loading or unloading for no more than fifteen minutes, but only with a permit from the Secretariat for Traffic.
Article 6 runs on the same clock for a narrower act: stopping and parking a freight vehicle on any street carrying a public-transport route is forbidden from 07:00 to 19:00, and allowed from 19:00 to 07:00 for loading and unloading, fifteen minutes at most, on a permit. Second, the permit windows inside the central zone.
A permitted vehicle up to 12 tonnes supplying retail premises may move from 09:00 to 14:00 and from 18:00 to 07:00, and may stop and park on the carriageway from 19:00 to 07:00; a vehicle over 12 tonnes supplying building sites may move, stop and park in those same two windows, 09:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 07:00; a concrete mixer supplying a building site is unrestricted by hour, 00:00 to 24:00; and a specialised vehicle collecting used cooking oil and fat from catering premises may move, stop and park from 19:00 to 07:00.
Third, the permit windows outside that zone, which are looser: up to 12 tonnes for retail supply may move 00:00 to 24:00 and stop or park 19:00 to 07:00; over 12 tonnes for construction supply may move 00:00 to 24:00 and stop or park 09:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 07:00; concrete mixers again 00:00 to 24:00.
A supply vehicle of 3.5 tonnes or less may move inside and outside the zone at any hour and may stop or park outside the regime from 19:00 to 07:00, for fifteen minutes of loading at most, on a permit.
Two special hours sit outside all of this: Article 6a lets the Secretariat permit movement, stopping and parking at any hour, inside the zone, outside it and on public-transport streets, for two named tasks only — maintaining traffic light signalling and removing packaging waste — and Article 11, as amended on 27 March 2026, allows a motor vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes to supply a pedestrian zone between 05:00 and 08:00 on a permit that states the exact route, at walking pace.
Nothing in the decision distinguishes a weekday from a weekend, and nothing in it names a public holiday: the hours above run every day of the week. Mladenovac is on its own clock under Article 7 and is not encoded here.
Службени лист града Београда — the City of Belgrade's own official gazette, which the city is required to keep. This is the search that bounds the whole instrument: the base решење of 2019 and every amendment to it, newest first, each with its issue number, publication date and page. The result count is the version pointer — a tenth amendment would move it off 18
The scheme is the whole City of Belgrade, with one street-drawn zone inside it that changes what a permit buys.
The zone, as the city redrew it on 25 September 2025, is bounded by: Кланички кеј, Дунавска, Жоржа Клеменсоа, Дунавска, Булевар војводе Бојовића, Карађорђева, Браће Крсмановић, Травничка, Карађорђева, Савски трг, Булевар краља Александра I Карађорђевића, мото-пут М11, Топлице Милана, Владимира Томановића, Војислава Илића, Господара Вучића, Булевар краља Александра, Батутова, Димитрија Туцовића, Рузвелтова, Мије Ковачевића, Булевар деспота Стефана, Поенкареова and back to Кланички кеј — twenty-three mentions of twenty-one distinct streets, with Дунавска and Карађорђева each named twice because the perimeter returns to them.
That list is worth reading closely, because it has moved twice in two years and both moves were substantive: the version in force from 20 December 2024 ran along Савска, and the current one replaced that stretch with Булевар краља Александра I Карађорђевића.
Inside the perimeter the permit windows are narrow; outside it, on the rest of the territory, the same classes of vehicle may move around the clock and only the parking hours bind. The permit requirement itself does not stop at the perimeter or at the urban core.
Article 2 applies it across ten city municipalities — Вождовац, Врачар, Звездара, Земун, Нови Београд, Палилула, Раковица, Савски венац, Стари град and Чукарица — and Article 8 applies it across the six outer ones, Барајево, Гроцка, Лазаревац, Обреновац, Сопот and Сурчин, with Младеновац given its own article. That is the entire administrative city, whose OpenStreetMap relation 1677007 measures 3,243.688 km².
The extent that sets this record's warning radius is the smaller one: the urban relation named Београд, relation 2728438, spans 28.31 km north to south by 31.77 km east to west, with its furthest corner 26.16 km from this record's anchor, which is why the city entry carries a radius override. The separate bans do not follow the perimeter at all.
Article 4's fifteen street sections are a list, not an area, and Article 3 is a single crossing — the bridge in the extension of Бранкова street, which until 25 September 2025 also included the Стари савски мост, deleted from the decision when that bridge went.
Службени лист града Београда, issue 69/2025 of 25 September 2025, page 82 — 'Решење о изменама Решења о режиму саобраћаја теретних и запрежних возила и снабдевање на територији града Београда'. Article 1 replaces the zone's bounding street list in full, and this is the version in force; Article 2 is what removed the Old Sava bridge from Article 3 of the base decision
There is no emission standard in this scheme for a petrol vehicle, because there is no emission standard in it at all. The decision reads one number off the vehicle and it is the maximum permitted laden mass: above 3.5 tonnes and not in transit, a permit is needed; at or below it, the goods-vehicle rules in Articles 2, 4 and 8 do not bite.
Euro class, year of first registration, fuel and exhaust measurement appear nowhere in the instrument or in the issuing department's published procedure, and no cleaner lorry is priced or admitted differently from a dirtier one of the same weight — unlike Budapest, which prices the same kind of permit off a Euro grid, and unlike Sofia, which bans on an eco group.
A petrol car passes through every part of Belgrade covered by this decision without needing anything. Not estimated: this is what the published text does not contain, checked against the full consolidated chain of the base decision and its nine amendments.
Nor a diesel standard, and for the same measured reason: the trigger is mass, not fuel. Nothing in the decision or in the Secretariat's published procedure separates diesel from petrol, sets a Euro floor, or asks for a smoke-opacity or emissions result.
The classes it does separate are commercial ones — supply of retail premises, supply of building sites, concrete mixers, collection of used cooking oil, maintenance of traffic signalling, removal of packaging waste — and each of those is a task, not an engine. A diesel car is outside the scheme entirely because it is under 3.5 tonnes. Not estimated.
The city's decision sets no penalty of its own, and the national law that would carry one could not be read from here. The instrument is a решење of the Secretariat for Traffic made under Article 157 of the Закон о безбедности саобраћаја на путевима — the road traffic safety act, Службени гласник РС 41/09 and fifteen amendments to it — and it closes with publication and application dates rather than with a sanction.
That is consistent with how the rule is built: the restriction is carried by traffic signs, and a fine for disobeying one sits in national legislation. The place to read that legislation is the Правно-информациони систем РС, the republic's own legal register, and its robots.txt invites us in — sixty-seven bytes, two Allow rules and not a single Disallow. The obstacle is not permission but form.
Every path on that host, including the ELI paths the robots.txt names, returns the same 12,855-byte JavaScript shell whose only visible words are 'pis-vue doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled'.
The application's configuration was found and decoded — it is a base64 blob at /bandleportalconf.txt naming eleven API hosts — and the act text is rendered into an iframe from one of them, but the endpoint that serves a document lives in one of a hundred and fifty lazily-loaded chunks and was not located.
No fine amount, no range and no enforcing body has therefore been read from an official source, and none is supplied from memory or from a secondary site. Not estimated. What can be said, and is said in the how-to-comply notes, is that the administrative fees for the permit are published in full and are not a penalty.
Град Београд — Секретаријат за саобраћај, Сектор за градску логистику: the issuing department's own procedure page, 'Поступак за издавање решење за кретање, заустављање и паркирање теретних моторних возила кроз град Београд'. Counter address, deadline, document list, both fee lines with the payment account and reference, collection method, and the three downloadable request forms
Службени лист града Београда, issue 98/2019 of 5 November 2019, page 1 — 'Решење о режиму саобраћаја теретних и запрежних возила и снабдевање на територији града Београда'. The base decision, made by the deputy head of the City Administration as secretary of the Secretariat for Traffic under Article 157 of the Закон о безбедности саобраћаја and Articles 26 and 46 of the Одлука о Градској управи Града Београда. Sixteen articles: the permit regime, the zone, the Article 3 bridge ban, the Article 4 street ban, the public-transport street rule, the outer municipalities, the exemptions, the pedestrian-zone supply rule and the horse-drawn ban. Article 14 repeals its predecessor, 73/2019; Article 16 sets application from 1 December 2019. Watched from cycle 108: the act's title, the scope sentence of Article 1, the Article 13 horse-drawn ban, the Article 14 repeal of 73/2019 and the 1 December 2019 commencement. The pedestrian-zone amendment printed on page 3 of this same issue is watched by the pedestrian-zone record, not here
Службени лист града Београда, issue 19/2026 of 27 March 2026, page 1 — 'Решење о измени Решења о режиму саобраћаја теретних и запрежних возила и снабдевању на територији града Београда'. The newest amendment, and the reason it is held is its opening citation, which prints the whole chain the city considers in force: 98/19, 7/20, 105/20, 114/20, 7/21, 83/21, 150/24, 69/25 and 1/26. A 2026 amendment to a 2019 decision is also the currency proof — an authority does not amend an instrument it has repealed. Substantively it moves the pedestrian-zone supply window from 06:00–09:00 to 05:00–08:00. Watched from cycle 108: the title, the instrument it amends, the words 'у члану 11. став 1. мења се и гласи', and the replaced paragraph itself with the 05:00–08:00 window in it. The line starts of this document carry extraction noise, so every watched string begins mid-line
Службени лист града Београда, issue 7/2020 of 7 February 2020, page 1 — 'Решење о изменама и допунама…'. Held because it is the amendment that replaced Articles 2, 4 and 5 and the first paragraph of Article 6 in full, and those replacements are still the operative text: the 07:00–19:00 ban window in Article 4 (the base decision said 07:00–20:00), the 19:00–07:00 parking window, and the split of the permit windows into an inside-the-zone set and an outside-the-zone set. Watched from cycle 108: the reference to 98/19 that opens the replacement of Article 2, the first indent of the zone perimeter, the 12-tonne retail-supply windows, the replacement of Article 6(1) with the 07:00–19:00 public-transport-street ban in it, and the IV-02 344.1-3/20 reference
Службени лист града Београда, issue 69/2025 of 25 September 2025, page 82 — 'Решење о изменама…'. The current zone perimeter, replacing the one set by 150/2024, and the deletion of the Стари савски мост from the Article 3 bridge ban. Watched from cycle 108: the title, the chain the preamble prints, the first indent of the replaced perimeter with its street list, and the sentence that deletes the Стари савски мост
Службени лист града Београда, issue 150/2024 of 20 December 2024, page 2 — 'Решење о изменама и допунама…'. Held for the point it added rather than the perimeter it set, which 69/2025 has since replaced: item г) of Article 2, the specialised vehicles that collect used cooking oil and fat from catering premises and may move, stop and park from 19:00 to 07:00. A PDF the extractor reads only partially — 78 strings come from a font with no /ToUnicode map and are dropped — so nothing is watched here: the monitor answers `unwatched` for a partial PDF (D-163), and a string written here could never hold
Службени лист града Београда, issue 82/2025 of 30 October 2025, page 1 — 'Одлука о измени Одлуке о локалним административним таксама', adopted by the Скупштина Града Београда. Article 2 replaces the entire tariff schedule of the 2024 fee decision, and Article 3 brings it into force on 1 January 2026, which is why the amounts in this record are read from here and not from the 2024 base decision. Тарифни број 5 point 4 is the movement permit at 2,051 dinars for the current month, point 5 the parking permit at 4,890, and Тарифни број 1 point 1 the 405-dinar request fee. Watched from cycle 108: the decision's title, all three amounts on the rows that name them — 2,051, 4,890 and 405 — and the 1 January 2026 commencement
Службени лист града Београда — the gazette's own search over its whole archive, 2002 to date, which is the denominator for this instrument and the version pointer for this record. The search was measured before it was trusted: 'буџет' returns 2,478 (positive control) and 'zzqqxxyy' returns none (blind negative). It indexes act titles rather than full text, so a negative from it says something about titles only — but for an amendment chain, titles are exactly the right index, and this query returns the base decision and all nine amendments with their issue numbers, dates and page numbers
Град Београд — Секретаријат за саобраћај, Сектор за градску логистику, 'Одељење за послове снабдевања и кретања теретних моторних возила кроз град'. The department that issues these permits, describing its own procedure: the counter address, the one-month deadline, the documents, both administrative fees with the payment account and reference, the 3.5-tonne threshold in the authority's own words, and the 19:00–07:00 supply window. Held as the independent second publisher for the two fee amounts, which it states to the dinar exactly as the gazette's tariff does
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-11-30.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.