Argentina license plate: Convocatoria reempadronamiento

Issued today 1995 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Dirección Nacional de los Registros Nacionales de la Propiedad del Automotor y de Créditos Prendarios (DNRPA), Ministerio de Justicia. One of 10 Argentina license plates.

Argentina license plate, Convocatoria reempadronamiento (1995 to today), sample MCS 657

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example MCS 657 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1995 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
294 × 129 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE SERIES THAT SURVIVED THE MERCOSUR SWITCH. Argentine vehicles registered before the 1995 codification keep their old dominio until a registral act forces a Convocatoria, and a Convocatoria still issues a THREE-LETTER, THREE-DIGIT dominio, not a Mercosur one, out of reserved letter lots. The series is OPEN because Disposición 232/2016 provides for its continuation.
How numbers are issued
Deliberately kept OUT of the new-registration run so the two cannot collide: Disposición D.N. N° 232/2016 records that convocatoria combinations ran "a partir de la letra 'R'", then from a stock beginning with "X", and that "A continuación de la combinación alfanumérica 'XOU-999' … los Registros Seccionales de la Propiedad del Automotor otorgarán placas metálicas correspondientes a los lotes disponibles que comiencen con la letra 'P'".

Legal basis and sources

  1. Digesto Título II Cap. XXV (Convocatoria al Parque Automotor) art. 2 a): 'El cambio de la Identificación del dominio del automotor por otra, compuesta por TRES (3) letras y TRES (3) números'; art. 2 b): a set of TWO... https://www.dnrpa.gov.ar/nuevodigesto/digesto/Titulo2.pdf
  2. Disposición D.N. N° 232/2016 arts. 1 and CONSIDERANDO, the R / X / XOU-999 / P lot sequence and the reason for it https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/260000-264999/263260/norma.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is ar-convocatoria-reempadronamiento. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Argentina's series:

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