Andorra license plate: Diplomatic staff A

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 staff A (documented since 2011), sample A23C

Format, years and the law

Format
A99L, for example A23C (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

A bare A marks an embassy's administrative and technical staff, the decree never says whether it abbreviates anything, with the sending state again in the final letter. Rank also lives in the shade: staff plates wear a statutorily lighter blue than the diplomats'.

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 #3E6DB5
Size
340 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL STAFF of embassies. That is a real design fact and would be lost by folding this into the CD series.
Format notes
art. 12: the letter A, two digits, then the State letter. This is why A appears in Llei 24/2014's list of prefixes a personalised plate may not imitate, alongside MT, CD, CMD and CC.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decret 456/2022 art. 12 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-staff-a. 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-staff-a")'