The new Slovak legislation reintroduces the obligation to have a motorway vignette regardless of the country of registration of the vehicle

As of the new year, drivers or operators of a vehicle will be obliged to purchase a motorway vignette when using the charged sections of Slovak motorways regardless of the country of registration of the given vehicle. This obligation also applies to vehicles registered in Ukraine. The new legislation repeals the exemption introduced in the Slovak Republic as of February 2022.

Národná diaľničná spoločnosť, a.s. (the National Motorway Company, hereinafter referred to as “NDS”) would like to draw the attention of the drivers to the legislative amendment that will enter into force on 1 January 2025. The Slovak Parliament adopted this amendment on 23 October 2024, amending the Act on the motorway vignette and cancelling the temporary provision on the exemption from the obligation to pay the motorway vignette for motor vehicles with Ukrainian number plates as of January 2025. 

The given amendment is available under the following link: https://static.slov-lex.sk/static/SK/ZZ/2024/308/vyhlasene_znenie.html. The exemption was in force during the emergency situation related to the mass arrival of Ukrainian citizens on the territory of Slovakia.