Sale of Electronic Vignettes for Cars in Bulgaria will Start on December 17

The sale of the new electronic vignette for cars starts on December 17 and they will take effect on 1 January next year.
They will be purchased through the bgtoll.bg site, a mobile application, over 500 self-service terminals, as well as in retail outlets.

Their prices are retained. A novelty is the introduction of a weekend vignette with a price of BGN 10, which will be valid from 12.00 on Friday until midnight on Sunday.

If drivers have a paper vignette, which will be valid after January 31, 2019, they can convert it to electronic. The request can be made after 17 December, regardless of its period of validity. For the purpose of the site bgtoll.bg, the vehicle registration number and the validity period of the sticker must be entered.

Drivers must be very careful not to make misspellings because this will be considered as absent payment for a vignette, the Road Infrastructure Agency (API) points out.

The replacement of the electronic vignette is not compulsory, but it is recommended so that the people would not be stopped and checked unnecessarily by the new police, reminded the Union of Bulgarian Motorists. However, if they choose not to validate their vignette electronically, drivers must leave the paper sticker on the car's windscreen until the date of its validity, a rule that already exists. 

We also need to be precise when buying an electronic vignette, because in the case of incorrect data, corrections can only be made at API offices. The data to be entered is the vehicle registration number, e-mail address, validity date of the electronic vignette - annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly or weekend, as well as the starting date from which the vignette will apply.

There are several ways of payment - bank cards, cash or...