With the development of states and the emergence of international community, the need to legally regulate relations between states has developed. Therefore, in order to establish and maintain stable relations between states, it was necessary to provide the safe and free performance of the official duties for diplomatic agents. This is how the concept of diplomatic privileges and immunities or exemptions and privileges that are required by the diplomatic agent in order to perform his functions freely and as effectively as possible, was developed. Personal inviolability of a diplomatic agent, immunity from criminal, civil and administrative jurisdiction, inviolability of the premises of the mission, inviolability of archives and communications, are among the most significant diplomatic privileges and immunities. Most diplomatic privileges and immunities have developed through customary international law. An important historical event was the codification of customary international law and the adoption of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations in 1961. The Vienna Convention is a fundamental document regulating diplomatic relations. The purpose of the work was to analyse diplomatic privileges and immunities through the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and their application through the study of various examples from the practice of states.