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Andorra license plate: Standard letter

Issued today 2011 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, and semitrailer, issued by Govern d'Andorra, Registre de Vehicles. One of 16 Andorra license plates.

Andorra's current national series, a letter and four digits under PRINCIPAT D'ANDORRA and the escut, for a country of 80,000 people.

Andorra license plate, Standard letter (2011 to today), sample P8552
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Format, years and the law

Format
L9999, for example P8552 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The letter is not a district, a class or a year, Andorra simply exhausted its five-digit numbers and put a letter in front to keep counting. Cars, trailers and semi-trailers share the one sequence, so the string cannot even tell you which you are behind.

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

Years issued
2011 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, and semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Andorra license plate, Standard letter 275×90 mm (2011 to today)

    Standard letter 275×90 mm

    standard · 275 × 90 mm

About this plate
THE CURRENT ORDINARY SERIES, one letter and four digits, black on white, arms upper left, AND beneath them, PRINCIPAT D'ANDORRA along the bottom. Trailers and semi-trailers share this series, so an Andorran trailer plate is textually indistinguishable from a car plate.
About its years
READ THIS, IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NOTE IN THE FILE. The ACA manufactures Andorran plates under Govern concession (Reglament art. 3.1), so it is an authoritative agency, but it is NOT an instrument, and it does not give a first-issue date. WHY NO INSTRUMENT IS CITED HERE, THOUGH ONE IS DATED 2011: the Decret of 23 February 2011 does not introduce this format. Its art. 3.2 describes the five-digit stage and the lettered stage in ONE SENTENCE as a continuous scheme advancing on exhaustion, and its stated innovations were the reduced plate, enduro/trial plates, ground images and the AND mark. The coincidence of years makes it a more dangerous trap than usual, not a safer one.
How numbers are issued
The letter advances only when the four digits exhaust, per art. 6.2's continuous-scheme sentence. There is NO date encoded and no geography.
Separators
art. 6.2 describes 'un grup de 5 caràcters' with no separator glyph; the pattern spells the serial unbroken.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Decret 456/2022 arts. 4.1, 6.1-6.4, the grammar, the I/O/Q exclusions, 340x120 mm, the layout and the aluminium base https://bopadocuments.blob.core.windows.net/bopa-documents/034135/html/GR20221110_09_12_43.html
  2. OFFICIAL AGENCY PAGE (Automòbil Club d'Andorra, concessionaire under art. 3.1): 'Des de l'any 2011…', the sole source for the year https://aca.ad/serveis/plaques-de-matricula

This plate in your app

The series id is ad-standard-letter. 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-standard-letter")'
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