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General information on vehicle registration

  1. Service location
  2. Vehicles registered at CSDD
  3. Vehicles not registered at CSDD
  4. Vehicle registration deadlines
  1. Person in whose name a vehicle is registered
  2. Persons who may register a vehicle
  3. Issue of a power of attorney in e-CSDD or in person

Person in whose name a vehicle is registered

Vehicles are registered in ownership, possession or holding, but numbered units are registered:

  • In the name of citizens and non-citizens of the Republic of Latvia, of Member States of the European Union, as well as foreigners who are allowed to enter and reside in Latvia and who are:
    • Adults - vehicles are registered in ownership, possession or holding, but numbered units are registered in ownership:
    • have reached the age of 16-, ownership, possession or holding vehicles allowed to be driven from the age of 14 or 16, as the case may be, or a numbered unit of such vehicles. In this case registration requires the consent of at least one of its parents (guardian);
    • minors and those who are the sole heirs of the vehicle or of the numbered unit. In this case, the vehicle or numbered unit shall be registered in the ownership or possession of this person, and the data on the guardian of the said person shall be indicated in the registration;
    • in the ownership or possession of persons over whom guardianship has been established, but the numbered units shall be registered in the ownership. In this case data of the guardian of the person will be indicated in the registration certificate;
    • in the name of persons registered in Latvia, their branches, including branches or representation offices of foreign merchants and organizations registered in Latvia, partnerships, institutions of direct or indirect administration – in ownership, possession or holding, but numbered aggregates are registered in ownership.

Vehicles may also be registered in ownership by those foreign persons whose location is not in Latvia, if:

  • one of the above-mentioned persons is registered as the holder, additionally submitting a document certifying the holding;
  • if a vehicle registered in Latvia changes ownership and the vehicle is at the same time de-registered for export from the country.

If the holder of the vehicle is a person who is not a citizen or non-citizen of Latvia and who has not received a residence permit issued in Latvia, may register the vehicle in Latvia for the period of up to 6 months.

The owner of the vehicle has the possibility to register the actual user of the vehicle by indicating him/her as the holder in the registration certificate (see the section “Vehicle holder registration and change”).