Ljubljana, Slovenia · Heavy vehicle ban
Official name Cona 1 – prepoved prometa tovornih vozil nad 3,5 t (3. člen Odloka o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana)
Ljubljana bars goods vehicles from the middle of the city on one question: what the vehicle weighs. 3. člen of the Odlok o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana prohibits, in cona 1, the traffic of goods vehicles whose maximum permissible mass exceeds 3.5 tonnes, together with working machines, working vehicles and tractors, except with a permit from the competent city organ.
The permit is not sold and it is not general: odstavek 2 issues it only when the size, nature or shape of the load makes it impossible to carry with a smaller vehicle, which is a test about the cargo rather than about the driver. Odstavek 3 exempts the vehicles named in 31.
člen, and since the 102/2025 amendment replaced that article on 1 January 2026 those are utility-service vehicles — vozila za potrebe izvajanja storitev gospodarskih javnih služb — on their own one-year permit; the four tendered environmentally friendly taxis and the patient-transport vehicles that the 2017 text also listed there are gone.
There are no hours: the article names no time of day, no weekday and no season, so the ban runs continuously. There is no emission test anywhere in this ordinance and no charge for entering. Driving in without a permit is a 160 euro offence for an individual, a fifth paragraph the 61/2023 amendment added to the article.
This record is published with its boundary unheld, and the reason is worth stating plainly because an earlier cycle recorded the opposite. 2. člen defines cona 1, 2 and 3 as areas of the city "ki jih oklepajo ulice in ceste, kot izhaja iz grafičnega prikaza" — enclosed by streets, as shown in a graphic annex — and names not one of those streets in the ordinance's fifty-odd articles.
The annex is not missing, though: priloga 1 is published by the gazette as an attachment to the act, it was replaced by the 16/2021 amendment with a sheet drawn in October 2020 at 1:70,000, and the city republishes that same sheet on its own parking page under the heading "Shema parkirnih con". What it is is a drawing.
Reading the boundary streets off it would be our line rather than the city's, which is the line Kladno is withheld on, so the extent is stated here only in the words the city itself uses for it.
Uradni list Republike Slovenije, št. 8/2017 of 17 February 2017, item 391 — Odlok o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana, adopted by the Ljubljana city council at its 22nd session on 30 January 2017 under 100. člen of the Zakon o cestah, 6. člen of the Zakon o pravilih cestnega prometa, 9. člen of the Zakon o financiranju občin and 27. člen of the Statut Mestne občine Ljubljana. 3. člen carries the whole prohibition and the permit test; 2. člen point 1 carries the definition of cona 1 that hands the extent to the graphic annex
There is no charge for entering and none for the permit, and that is the scheme's own answer rather than a gap in ours. 3. člen prices neither the entry nor the permit: odstavek 1 states the prohibition, odstavek 2 the single ground on which the competent organ issues a dovolilnica, odstavek 3 the exemption, odstavek 4 the size of the permit form, odstavek 5 the fine.
No daily rate, no season ticket, no entry fee appears in any of them, and no other article attaches a taksa to this permit — the ordinance's annual taxes belong to the parking permits of 13. and 16. člen and to the delivery places of 24.
člen, which are different documents for different things. A goods-vehicle operator whose load genuinely cannot go in a smaller vehicle applies, is granted or refused in an administrative procedure, and pays nothing for the decision. Recording a figure here from the parking side of the same ordinance would tell a haulier that cona 1 has a price, which is exactly what it does not have.
The article states no hours and it is short enough to be certain of that: five paragraphs, of which the first carries the prohibition and mentions no time of day, no weekday and no season. The ban therefore runs continuously. This is a drafting choice rather than an omission, because the same ordinance uses hours where a scheme has them: 30.
člen gives the pedestrian areas a dostavni čas of 06:00 to 10:00 every day of the week, and 06:00 to 08:00 in the neighbourhood pedestrian areas the 109/2023 amendment created. Cona 1 has none. What decides a case here is the vehicle and the load, not the clock.
Cona 1 is the innermost of the three zones the ordinance divides Ljubljana into, and the city states its extent in a drawing rather than in words. 2.
člen point 1 says cona 1, 2 and 3 are areas of the city of Ljubljana "ki jih oklepajo ulice in ceste, kot izhaja iz grafičnega prikaza, ki je kot priloga 1 sestavni del tega odloka" — enclosed by streets and roads as shown in the graphic annex that forms part of the act — and then names not one of those streets.
Three things the city itself publishes narrow it, and all three are the publisher's own statements rather than our reading of the map.
First, the annex exists and is public: the gazette serves priloga 1 as an attachment, and the sheet in force is the one the 16/2021 amendment substituted — "Priloga 1: Prikaz parkirnih con in parkirnih območij v Mestni občini Ljubljana", drawn by LUZ d.d. in October 2020 at 1:70,000, with a legend of PARKIRNA CONA 1, PARKIRNA CONA 2, PARKIRNA CONA 3 and PARKIRNO OBMOČJE.
Ljubljana puts the same sheet on its own parking page under the heading "Shema parkirnih con na območju Mestne občine Ljubljana", so the drawing is reachable from both the gazette and the city. Second, the act itself ties its cona to that parking legend, which is what lets the drawing be read as this restriction's ground rather than as a parking-only map: the tariff table in 11.
člen names class U-1 as "parkirna cona 1 območje cone 1", the same area under both names. Third, the act enumerates what cona 1 contains: the 16/2021 amendment rewrote 11.
člen odstavek 6 to set parking-meter time limits "v parkirnih območjih C4, C5, C6, C7, C9 in C10 v coni 1" for at most two hours and "v parkirnih območjih C1, C11, C13 in C14 v coni 1" for at most four, so cona 1 is made up of ten named parking districts — C1, C4, C5, C6, C7, C9, C10, C11, C13 and C14 — whose own outlines are on the same annex.
In the city's plainest description of the same ground, the tariff legend of the current Odredba calls območje 1 the "ožje mestno središče", the narrower city centre, with območje 2 in its immediate vicinity and območje 3 outside it. What none of this gives is a boundary in street names, and this record does not supply one: tracing the ring off a 1:70,000 drawing would be our line, not the city's.
A driver over 3.5 tonnes should treat the whole compact centre of Ljubljana as closed and read the annex or the signs for the edge. See boundary_coverage.
Uradni list Republike Slovenije — Odlok o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana (Uradni list RS, št. 8/17), 2. člen point 1 for the definition and 11. člen for the U-1 tariff class that names cona 1 and parkirna cona 1 as one area; and Odlok o spremembah in dopolnitvah (Uradni list RS, št. 16/2021, item 381), which rewrote 11. člen odstavek 6 to list the ten parking districts inside cona 1 and whose 21. člen substituted priloga 1 with the October 2020 sheet now in force
The authority's own map: Mestna občina Ljubljana
There is no emission test here, and that is a statement about the whole ordinance rather than about this article alone. Read across the consolidated chain of 8/17 with its amendments 14/19, 16/21, 184/21, 137/22, 61/23, 109/23, 37/25 and 102/2025, access turns on three things only: mass, permit and traffic sign. 3.
člen asks what the vehicle weighs and whether the load could go in a smaller one. No fuel, no Euro class, no emission category and no windscreen label appears in it. The ordinance does favour electric drive elsewhere — reserved bays for shared electric cars under 21.
člen, a duty to move an electric vehicle off a charging bay once charging ends under 12. člen — but none of that is a condition of entry. Not estimated.
There is no diesel test, for the same reason there is no petrol test: a diesel lorry and a petrol lorry of the same mass are treated identically, and both are barred. The only vehicle properties 3. člen grades on are maximum permissible mass over 3.5 tonnes and the categories of working machine, working vehicle and tractor, which it names outright regardless of what they burn.
This is not a low emission zone with a weight cut-off; it is a weight restriction, and Slovenia has no national low emission zone framework that this record has read either way. Not estimated.
Uradni list Republike Slovenije, št. 61/2023, item 1891 — Odlok o spremembah in dopolnitvah Odloka o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana. The amendment adds a fifth paragraph to 3. člen: "Z globo 160 eurov se kaznuje za prekršek posameznik, ki ravna v nasprotju s prvim odstavkom tega člena" — 160 euros for an individual who acts contrary to the prohibition in odstavek 1. Before this amendment the article carried no fine of its own. The ordinance states no separate figure for a legal person under 3. člen
Mestna občina Ljubljana — Odlok o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana (Uradni list RS, št. 8/17), 3., 30. and 35. člen as amended, with the permit ground in 3. člen odstavek 2 and the exemption in odstavek 3; the fine from the 61/2023 amendment; and the replacement of 31. člen by Odlok o spremembah in dopolnitvah (Uradni list RS, št. 102/2025), 14. člen, in force 1 January 2026, which narrows the exempt class to vehicles performing public utility services
Mestna občina Ljubljana — Register predpisov, the city's own thematic register of its regulations, section Prometna ureditev. This is the validity channel: it lists the whole chain for this ordinance in one place and marks the superseded members. Odlok o cestnoprometni ureditvi (122/07) and its six amendments are marked "prenehanje veljave", as are Odlok o urejanju prometa (38/13), 55/13 and 57/15; Odlok o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana (8/17) carries no such mark and is followed by eight amendments — 14/2019, 16/21, 184/21, 137/22, 61/23, 109/23, 37/2025 and 102/2025 — none of them marked either. The watched strings hold the base act and the newest amendment; a ninth amendment appended to the list would not trip them, which is what stale_after is for
Uradni list Republike Slovenije, št. 8/2017 of 17 February 2017, item 391 — Odlok o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana, the base act. In force on the fifteenth day after publication, 4 March 2017. Source for 3. člen in full, for the definition of cona 1 in 2. člen, for the U-1 tariff class that names cona 1 and parkirna cona 1 as one area, and for the 2017 version of 31. člen that the 102/2025 amendment later replaced. The gazette's own banner records where the series continues: issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS
Uradni list Republike Slovenije, št. 16/2021 of 5 February 2021, item 381 — Odlok o spremembah in dopolnitvah Odloka o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana. Two things in this amendment matter to this record and to nothing else in the corpus: its 21. člen substitutes priloga 1 with a new sheet, which is why the annex in force is the October 2020 drawing rather than the January 2017 one published with the base act, and its rewrite of 11. člen odstavek 6 names the ten parking districts that make up cona 1
Uradni list Republike Slovenije, št. 61/2023 of 2 June 2023, item 1891 — Odlok o spremembah in dopolnitvah Odloka o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana. The source of the 160 euro fine in 3. člen odstavek 5, which this amendment added
Uradni list Republike Slovenije, št. 102/2025 of 5 December 2025, item 3439 — Odlok o spremembah in dopolnitvah Odloka o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana, in force 1 January 2026. Its 14. člen replaces 31. člen outright, and that is the article 3. člen odstavek 3 exempts from this ban: the exempt class is now vehicles performing public utility services only, where the 2017 text also named up to four tendered environmentally friendly taxis and patient-transport vehicles
Mestna občina Ljubljana — Letne dovolilnice za parkiranje stanovalcev, the city's own page on the residents' parking permits. Cited here for one thing only: it is where the city shows priloga 1 to its own residents, under the heading "Shema parkirnih con na območju Mestne občine Ljubljana", as the image parkirne-cone2.png — the same October 2020 sheet the gazette carries as the annex. It is also the page that uses CONA 1, CONA 2 and CONA 3 as the everyday names of those areas
Uradni list Republike Slovenije — priloga 1 to the Odlok o urejanju prometa v Mestni občini Ljubljana as substituted by the 16/2021 amendment. The graphic annex itself, served by the gazette as a four-page PDF attachment to item 381 of issue 16/2021: "Priloga 1: Prikaz parkirnih con in parkirnih območij v Mestni občini Ljubljana", legend PARKIRNA CONA 1 / PARKIRNA CONA 2 / PARKIRNA CONA 3 / PARKIRNO OBMOČJE, scale 1:70,000, drawn by LUZ d.d. in October 2020. This is the document 2. člen hands the extent of cona 1 to. It is a drawing rather than a page, so the one thing in it a monitor can watch is the gazette running head that says which issue and page this sheet is — and that is what it watches since 2026-09-18. The gazette's robots.txt permits it — the only disallowed path is /_pdf/*/*a/, which this is not
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-17.
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