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Half a year after receiving the [[Permit]] you must exchange your driver's license issued in your country for a Montenegrin driver's license. | Half a year after receiving the [[Permit]] you must exchange your driver's license issued in your country for a Montenegrin driver's license. | ||
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As long as you are a tourist, you can drive a car with a foreign registration as much as you like. When you have a residence permit, you can drive either in a car with Montenegrin registration, or in an officially rented foreign car. | As long as you are a tourist, you can drive a car with a foreign registration as much as you like. When you have a residence permit, you can drive either in a car with Montenegrin registration, or in an officially rented foreign car. | ||
Revision as of 21:45, 8 January 2023
Rights
Montenegro participates in the Vienna Convention on traffic, and recognizes the driver's licenses issued in the participating countries of this convention: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and others.
Half a year after receiving the Permit you must exchange your driver's license issued in your country for a Montenegrin driver's license.
Vehicle Registration
As long as you are a tourist, you can drive a car with a foreign registration as much as you like. When you have a residence permit, you can drive either in a car with Montenegrin registration, or in an officially rented foreign car.
Alcohol
Permissible concentration of alcohol in the blood is not more than 0.3 ppm.
Rules of the road
Penalties for traffic violations in Montenegro are much stricter than in the CIS.
Bicycle
The rules for cycling are similar to the European / Russian model of the 90s, in particular: you can ride a bicycle on all categories of public roads from the age of 16, using a meter-wide lane from the right edge of the road; no documentation is required for cycling; in conditions of poor visibility, a reflective vest, a white light in front and a red one in the back are required; it is forbidden to move on the bike path at a speed of more than 35 km / h; Bicycles are equated to electric bicycles with a power of no more than 250W with automatic shutdown of the motor at speeds above 25km/h. By the letter of the law, a cyclist must wear a helmet when traveling on the highway, but in practice this rule is not respected, and its enforcement is not monitored.