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Austria license plate: Diplomatic

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

Austria license plate, Diplomatic (2002 to today), sample WD-21976
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Format, years and the law

Format
WD-99999, for example WD-21976 (9 any digit)

The letter before the D names the Land, Vienna's WD is almost the entire population, and D is the diplomatic corps. Spotter's trap: ND, SD and GD double as district codes (Neusiedl am See, Schärding, Gmünd); the digits-only serial breaks the tie.

D
Diplomatisches Korps (diplomatic 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
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Austria license plate, Diplomatic 300×200 mm (2002 to today)

    Diplomatic 300×200 mm

    diplomatic · 300 × 200 mm

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

    Diplomatic 250×200 mm

    diplomatic · 250 × 200 mm

About this plate
AUSTRIAN DIPLOMATIC PLATES. Like Germany and unlike Spain, Austria keeps the ordinary black-on-white design and signals status through the PREFIX plus one structural cue, the missing coat of arms, which leaves a visible gap where every other white Austrian plate carries arms. Vienna's concentration of international organisations makes WD overwhelmingly the populated prefix. COLLISION WARNING a parse API must carry: ND, SD and GD are simultaneously Anlage 5d district codes (Neusiedl am See, Schärding, Gmünd) and BD is simultaneously the Bundesbus sachlicher Bereich.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 26 Abs. 5 lit. a: the D letter, its beneficiary definition (Legitimationskarte for the diplomatic corps in Vienna, for officials of international organisations in Austria with equivalent status, and for members of... https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26
  2. § 54 Abs. 3 lit. a-c (who may display CD), Abs. 3b (household family members), Abs. 3c (how the sign is affixed and recorded). https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=54
  3. § 49 Abs. 4: the no-arms exception for § 54 Abs. 3 vehicles; the EU field on white plates. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49
  4. Anlage 5e: Diplomat (DKT) row, EU emblem +, weiß/schwarz, Wappen -, 5 Vormerkzeichen, Muster I/III/VII. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40267389/NOR40267389.html

This plate in your app

The series id is at-diplomatic. 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-diplomatic")'
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