Serbia Fuel Prices Rise Again: Diesel 226, Petrol 202
Diesel and petrol each gained two dinars a litre, the second Friday increase in a row. The new fuel prices hold until August 7, and the government has pushed its excise cut back to August 9.
A litre of euro diesel at Serbian filling stations now costs up to 226 dinars, and a litre of Euro Premium BMB petrol up to 202 dinars. Both figures are two dinars higher than in last week’s list, and this is the second Friday in a row that fuel prices have moved up.
The list comes from the Ministry of Internal and Foreign Trade. The maximum retail prices take effect at 3 p.m. on July 31 and hold until Friday, August 7, at the same hour. The ministry reissues the price list every Friday, and station operators must apply the new figures as soon as they appear on the ministry’s website. These are ceilings rather than fixed prices: a station may sell below them, never above.
A week earlier the ceiling stood at 224 dinars for diesel and 200 for petrol. Two dinars sounds like nothing until it is multiplied by a tank. Fifty litres of diesel now cost 100 dinars more than they did seven days ago, with no change at all in the tax component of the bill.
Why do the excise cuts run to August 9?
Because the Serbian government extended its temporary reduction of excise duties on petroleum products. The previous deadline was August 2; the new one is August 9. The duty stays 20 percent below the full rate, which means it is charged at:
- 61.24 dinars a litre on leaded petrol
- 57.6 dinars a litre on unleaded petrol
- 59.23 dinars a litre on gas oils, meaning diesel
The government frames the measure as protecting supply stability and shielding the domestic market from disruptions in international flows. On diesel, it keeps the duty close to 15 dinars a litre below what the full rate would charge.
The calendar now puts two decisions inside the same week. The next price list lands on Friday, August 7, and the excise deadline expires on Sunday, August 9. If the measure is not renewed for a third time, the tax share of the pump price climbs two days after stations have already locked in their weekly figures.
Where 226 dinars sits in Europe
When we last measured Serbian diesel against the rest of the continent, a litre worked out at 1.91 euros, dearer than in 27 European countries. Two dinars more at the same exchange rate puts it near 1.93 euros, so this list does nothing to improve that standing. Serbia imports most of the crude it refines, and excise plus VAT together remain the single largest element in the price of a litre, larger than the product itself.
For a household burning roughly 100 litres of diesel a month, two dinars a litre adds 200 dinars to the monthly bill. For a haulier running ten vehicles it runs into tens of thousands of dinars, and the increase does not stop at the pump: it feeds into freight rates, and from there into shelf prices.
The ministry publishes its next list on Friday, August 7, before 3 p.m. The excise decision follows two days later.
