Applicant categories:
- Vehicles’ owners (physical/legal entities)
Required documents:
- the identity document of the owner or authorized person;
- power of attorney (if necessary);
- stamp (for legal entities);
- confirmation of paying the tariffs for provided service.
General information
The registration of vehicles and aggregates with manufacturing numbers is carried out on behalf of physical and legal entities, on the basis of one of the property titles.
Vehicles that were not registered in the State Register of Transport (RST) are registered only with the written permission of the customs authorities.
The ownership rights on vehicles and aggregates, imported into the Republic of Moldova, are certified by documents issued by customs institutions, during their customs clearance.
Vehicles and aggregates with manufacturing numbers, imported into the Republic of Moldova, are registered on behalf of legal and physical entities, in whose name customs documents have been issued. This restriction does not apply to economic agents engaged in the sale of vehicles and its aggregates, vehicles imported by physical entities and transferred to spouses, children and parents or enterprises whose founders they are, as well as to vehicles imported by legal entities and transferred to their representatives and filial branches.
Vehicles and their aggregates, which have the identification numbers intentionally destroyed, forged or counterfeit, are not subject to registration, repeated registration or deregistration (except for cases of discard).
The replacement of aggregates or their marking with conventional identification numbers is allowed only with the permission of the holder of the automated information system “State Register of Transport”.
The registration of vehicles (aggregates) on behalf of the physical and legal entities who have obtained the property right, based on the contract concluded according to the provisions of the legislation (in free form, signed by the parties to the transaction and certified with the stamp, if one of the participants is a legal entity), is made upon presentation of the Agreement, the registration document and the mutual applications for amendments to the SRT.
Vehicles developing a maximum speed not exceeding 50 km/h, equipped with engines with a cylinder capacity up to 50 cm3, which previously did not fall under the requirements regarding their registration in the SRT and which are operated on the territory of the Republic of Moldova before February 1, 2008, will be subject to registration, based on the written application of the owner.
Property titles drawn up in other languages, except Russian, should be translated into the state language and certified by a notary.
The transport units whose documents have scratches, additions and corrections, not specified and not confirmed by the signature and stamp of the relevant authority, as well as the property titles which do not indicate the identification or marking numbers of the aggregates are not accepted for registration.
The registration procedure is carried out only after the vehicle has been identified. Prior to the start of the registration operations for imported vehicles, their registration documents and titles of ownership are subject of mandatory examination by an authorized expert in technical testing, who determines the authenticity of the document, any changes to the source text or vehicle aggregates’ numbers.
The state and current registration of vehicles is not allowed without confirmation of paying the road taxes, of periodic state technical inspection and mandatory civil liability insurance (except for cases of alienation, discard or export from the Republic of Moldova, whose owners are required to pay the road taxes and which are subject to the compulsory civil liability insurance).
The information about the year of manufacture and the technical parameters of the vehicles are entered in the SRT based on the documents issued during the customs clearance process and the certificates of conformity and/or evaluation, issued by the Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure.
If the vehicle data (year of manufacture and/or technical parameters) are incorrectly indicated during the process of customs clearance, its certification and/or evaluation, the registration of transport is not carried out, the documents are sent to the Customs Service, and their copies - to the Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure, to be reviewed.
Property titles:
- certificates or permits issued by customs authorities;
- invoices issued by the economic agents authorized to trade vehicles;
- certificates of the social protection authorities that allocated vehicles for the use of persons with disabilities;
- notarized sale-purchase, donation or exchange agreement;
- the sale-purchase contracts concluded in written form according to the requirements of the legislation;
- notarized titles of ownership and certificates of inheritance of the vehicles (aggregates);
- certificates regarding the composition of rural households, issued by Mayor’s offices, in the case the death of their heads, in whose name a certificate of registration has been issued;
- the titles of property issued by the state property privatization bodies;
- the decisions of the judicial authority regarding the confiscation of vehicles (aggregates) or the recognition of the ownership right over them;
- acceptance and delivery report of the vehicles (aggregates), owned by legal entities;
- the decisions of the Committee regarding the vehicles won in the lottery;
- notarized legal agreements regarding the termination of the donation agreement, on the division of common property of spouses or of the inheritance property;
- the reports of the State Registration Chamber on the transmission in the statutory funds of vehicles belonging to natural persons;
- documents of acceptance to the balance sheet of the enterprise of the aggregates with manufacturing numbers;
- registration certificates (technical passports) of the vehicles issued by the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
- certificates of registration and examination subdivisions of transport regarding the property right on the aggregates with manufacturing numbers;
- owners’ applications (for legal entities – documents of discarding) regarding the deregistration of the discarded vehicles.
In order to be admitted to road traffic, vehicles must be registered and have plates with a registration number that comply with the standard SM-122: 2002 “Registration licence plates for motor vehicles and trailers. General specifications” or national standard SM 122: 2014 “Road vehicles. Registration licence plates for motor vehicles and trailers”, mounted in the designated places. The Public Services Agency provides a wide range of services related to the issuance of registration plates such as: issuance of new licence plates, issuance of previously used license plates, plates containing requested symbols, transit licence plates, etc., including the verification of the relevant registration during the issuance of the registration plates, in exchange of lost, damaged or stolen plates.
