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Austria license plate: Consular

Issued today 2002 to today. Consular plates for car, van, and motorcycle, set by the Kraftfahrgesetz 1967 (KFG 1967). One of 18 Austria license plates.

Austria license plate, Consular (2002 to today), sample WK-72625
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Format, years and the law

Format
WK-99999, for example WK-72625 (9 any digit)

Two letters, two jobs: the first is the seat (W Wien, S Salzburg), the K is the consular corps. NK and VK also happen to be the district codes of Neunkirchen and Völkermarkt, only the digits-only serial settles which plate you are looking at.

K
Konsularkorps (consular corps)

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

Years issued
2002 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Austria license plate, Consular 300×200 mm (2002 to today)

    Consular 300×200 mm

    consular · 300 × 200 mm

  • Austria license plate, Consular 250×200 mm (2002 to today)

    Consular 250×200 mm

    consular · 250 × 200 mm

About this plate
AUSTRIAN CONSULAR PLATES. On the face of the instruments an honorary consul's car may display CC while carrying an ordinary district plate WITH arms. COLLISIONS: NK and VK are simultaneously the district codes for Neunkirchen and Völkermarkt.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 26 Abs. 5 lit. b: the K letter for holders of a Legitimationskarte for the Konsularkorps in Österreich, excluding Austrian nationals and stateless persons ordinarily resident in Austria before their appointment. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26
  2. § 54 Abs. 3a lit. a (career consular posts' service vehicles), lit. b (foreign career consuls), lit. c (heads of honorary consular posts, 'Diese Berechtigung gilt jedoch nur für jeweils ein Kraftfahrzeug eines Leiters... https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=54
  3. Anlage 5e: the DKT row covers the consular plate too, the annex has no separate consular row. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40267389/NOR40267389.html

This plate in your app

The series id is at-consular. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Austria's series:

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