FROM February 7, the Traffic Police began checkups on the payment of road tax in the form of vignette stickers.
All motorists are obliged to have purchased a vignette sticker for either one week, one month, or one year, for using the national road network, meaning all roads outside city limits.
The sole exception so far applies to the Sofia suburbs of Simeonovo, Boyana, Vladaya, Dragalevtsi, Bistritsa, Bankya, Filipovtsi and Kokalyane, which even though outside the city limits are a part of the Sofia municipality.
The problems in the suburbs of other cities, Varna and Bourgas, for instance, where residents have complained that they have to buy vignettes in order to commute to work every day, remained unresolved by February 9 and were being dealt with by the relevant municipalities.
Vignettes are sold in most post offices in the country, DZI points of sale and the points of sale of the Union of Bulgarian Motorists, for four leva, 10 leva and 54 leva respectively for cars, 20 leva, 49 leva and 271 leva for passenger vehicles with more than eight seats plus the driver’s, and 39 leva, 97 leva and 541 leva for lorries.
The sticker has to be pasted onto the lower right hand corner of the front windscreen, and the motorist has to carry the other part of the sticker along with other car documents.
The fine for not having a vignette is between 100 and 1000 leva depending on the vehicle. The fine for having a sticker but not pasting it onto the windscreen is 20 leva.
All motorists are obliged to have purchased a vignette sticker for either one week, one month, or one year, for using the national road network, meaning all roads outside city limits.
The sole exception so far applies to the Sofia suburbs of Simeonovo, Boyana, Vladaya, Dragalevtsi, Bistritsa, Bankya, Filipovtsi and Kokalyane, which even though outside the city limits are a part of the Sofia municipality.
The problems in the suburbs of other cities, Varna and Bourgas, for instance, where residents have complained that they have to buy vignettes in order to commute to work every day, remained unresolved by February 9 and were being dealt with by the relevant municipalities.
Vignettes are sold in most post offices in the country, DZI points of sale and the points of sale of the Union of Bulgarian Motorists, for four leva, 10 leva and 54 leva respectively for cars, 20 leva, 49 leva and 271 leva for passenger vehicles with more than eight seats plus the driver’s, and 39 leva, 97 leva and 541 leva for lorries.
The sticker has to be pasted onto the lower right hand corner of the front windscreen, and the motorist has to carry the other part of the sticker along with other car documents.
The fine for not having a vignette is between 100 and 1000 leva depending on the vehicle. The fine for having a sticker but not pasting it onto the windscreen is 20 leva.
