Andorra license plate: Diplomatic CD

Issued today Documented since 2011. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Govern d'Andorra, Registre de Vehicles. One of 16 Andorra license plates.

Andorra license plate, Diplomatic CD (documented since 2011), sample CD14L

Format, years and the law

Format
CD99L, for example CD14L (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

CD is the cos diplomàtic, accredited diplomats below head-of-mission rank, and, as across the whole family, the closing letter identifies the sending state. Two digits, one more than the ambassador's plate: in Andorra, rank is measured in serial length.

CD
Cos diplomàtic (diplomatic corps)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 2011; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #1F3A93
Size
340 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
COS DIPLOMÀTIC, the diplomatic corps proper, below head-of-mission rank. Two digits rather than the CMD series' one, on the same Pantone 2945 ground. The three-way split CMD / CD / A by rank, each with its own digit count, is unusually granular for a microstate.
Format notes
art. 10: CD, two digits (00-99), then the State letter

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decret 456/2022 art. 10 https://bopadocuments.blob.core.windows.net/bopa-documents/034135/html/GR20221110_09_12_43.html

This plate in your app

The series id is ad-diplomatic-cd. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Andorra's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ad \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ad-diplomatic-cd")'