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Everywhere in Europe it is illegal to drive for an extended time on foreign plates, not only in Norway. In the whole EU I think it's illegal.

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I was not aware of that, but it makes sense

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In Hungary it's not (at least not enforced), if you have residence or a company in the foreign country

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Here in Paris we have lots of cars from Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Moldova who drive for a very long time in France without ever changing their plates to French ones. It should be enforced through an online system where you can report such cars so that their owners could have problems and be fined EU-wide.

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It's not possible to enforce that. Owner can say that he crossed the border some time ago and he is frequently moving beetwen the countries and he doesn't need to change the license plates

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In Norway people have been caught doing that, it's not a huge number and the vast number doesn't get caught, but I think it's around 100 every year.

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In Austria it´s one month time to change the plates after crossing the border -> otherwise a very high punishment -> no option for kind of tricks to stay on the foreign plates

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Strict punishment here too, I did the math, and if this Jeep owner gets caught by police he has to pay at least 20.000€ + possibly other additional fines, and that's on the low end.

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I think the rules depend on whether you MOVE to another country or you just work there for a short(ish) time.

You need to spend a certain percentage of time in the country where the car is registered. There have been some cases in Denmark where millionairs brought luxury cars to Denmark on foreign plates and used them here. Caught by the law, they claimed that they'd been abroad for much of the time, and in this case authorities can check various things to verify your claims (phone data, receipts, social media etc.)

Near where I live there's an old (1980s) Saab 99 on Berlin plates parked in a carport. It's been there since I moved here in 2011 and I don't think it's illegal to OWN a car on foreign plates, it's just illegal to use it.

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The worst seems to be in Ukraine, where there's an enormous amount of cars being driven registered in Lithuania or Poland in order to avoid paying taxes while registering it in Ukraine. They've finally started to enforce it few monthes ago.

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Sorry for OT, but I just went past that Saab again today. It's a brown 99 GL, plates B-ZM 93. The paintwork has gone completely matt and there's a green tinge of moss/algae on the boot/trunk edge.

To return to the topic, I've also noticed that there seems to be a lot of fake danish plates in Ukraine, which is probably related to what Bara Kuda said: drivers wanting to avoid paying taxes and if rules are not enforced, people start using fake plates since there's practically no risk.

Glad to hear that enforcement is finally starting to improve.

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