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Fewer visits to government offices, automation, and license plates delivered to pickup boxes.

Fewer visits to government offices, automation, and license plates delivered to pickup boxes.

13/5/2026Press releases

The digitization and streamlining of transportation procedures continue. Legislative amendments to Act No. 56/2001 Coll., on the Conditions for the Operation of Vehicles on Public Roads, are headed for government review. The Ministry of Transport proposes easier vehicle transfers, the delivery of license plates and vehicle registration certificates to pickup boxes, and the related transferability of license plates. The amendment to the law is also intended to automate the processing of vehicle registration applications, eliminating the need for citizens and businesses to visit government offices.
 

Fewer visits to government offices, automation, and license plates delivered to pickup boxes.
Thanks to the Ministry of Transport’s amendment, vehicle owners and operators will be able to process necessary applications and notifications related to vehicle registration electronically on the Transport Portal.
 
“Vehicle transfers are one of the most common matters people deal with at government offices. Last year alone, there were more than 1.2 million such cases. That is why we are proposing that citizens no longer have to waste time visiting government offices to buy or sell a car, but can instead handle everything quickly, easily, and securely online via the Transport Portal. We want to move the country one step closer to modern digital services,” says Minister of Transport Ivan Bednárik.
 
Most often, citizens deal with buying and selling cars; in 2025, there were 1,223,130 such cases. If the amendment drafted by the Ministry of Transport is adopted as proposed, citizens will no longer have to submit vehicle registration certificates (“small technical certificates”) to government offices, and new ones can be picked up at distribution points (typically lockers or pickup stations) for requests submitted via the Transport Portal. The option to pick them up at an office will remain available. If the new delivery method is used, citizens will be required to dispose of the old documents themselves so they do not have to visit an office.
 
The same should apply to the issuance of certificates in cases of a change of residence, etc.
 
“The success of delivering driver’s licenses to pickup boxes has shown that citizens want to use government services just as conveniently as they do regular commercial ones. That is why we now want to make it possible to pick up license plates or vehicle registration certificates at pickup boxes and distribution points as well. At the same time, our proposal also provides for the introduction of license plate portability, so that people will be able to keep their license plate even when changing vehicles. Here, too, our goal is to save citizens time, administrative hassle, and unnecessary visits to government offices,” adds Minister Bednárik.
 
In addition to these changes, the bill also provides for the introduction of license plate portability, whereby vehicle owners and operators will, in certain situations—such as the sale of a vehicle, its decommissioning, or its environmentally sound disposal—have the right to transfer their existing license plate to another vehicle they own or operate. They will also be able to reserve this plate for up to 6 months from the date of application.
 
The bill also introduces the automation of vehicle registration procedures, whereby relevant applications and notifications without attachments submitted via the Transport Portal will be processed entirely without the involvement of officials. For citizens, this means their applications will be processed more quickly. For example, in the case of a third license plate for a bike rack (57,715 cases in 2025), the citizen’s application will go directly to production.
 
In addition, we also propose automating two procedures related to vehicle registration for which the vehicle owner will no longer need to submit an application. A vehicle listed as missing or stolen will now be considered decommissioned, and the entry of this vehicle’s decommissioning in the vehicle registry will be made automatically. We also propose the automatic entry of a vehicle’s termination in the vehicle registry in the event of its environmentally sound disposal, based on the entry of this information into the relevant information system. This could affect more than 190,000 people annually.
 
Another notable proposal among the proposed changes is the introduction of a process for deregistering a vehicle without having to deposit the license plates or visit the office. Unlike the current system, where license plates and vehicle registration certificates—for example, for seasonal vehicles not in use (motorcycles in winter, etc.)—must be taken to the office and then picked up again, everything could be done online. It would be a matter of one click to decommission a vehicle and one click to re-register it.
 
The amendment could therefore save:
157,668 visits to government offices per year thanks to online deposit. Additionally, de-registering a car will mean that the vehicle registration certificate and license plates remain with the owner, who can reuse them.
 
197,689 visits per year due to vehicle scrapping; the vehicle registration certificate and license plate will be disposed of at a scrapyard along with the vehicle.
 
Beyond vehicle registration, the bill also addresses how to legally provide a vehicle with a replacement VIN number in cases where the existing number is illegible or missing.
The new legislation is also intended to cover the provision of vehicle data via the internet; there are new plans to make photographs of vehicles taken during inspections available as well.
 
The government and parliament are expected to debate the amendment later this year. Some provisions of the proposed law are set to take effect as early as November 2026. Changes to vehicle registration will take effect on July 1, 2027, and some will take effect on July 1, 2028, primarily due to the need to configure the relevant IT systems of several ministries. 
 

 






 
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