Austria license plate: Government

Format, years and the law

Format

A-999999, for example A-117189 (9 any digit)

Digits-only serials mark official fleets, and the letters name the organ: A for the Republic's highest federal offices, a lone Land letter for a state government (W Wien, T Tirol), BD for the federal bus service. N and O appear nowhere else in the system.

BD

Bundesbus (federal bus service)

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

Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and motorcycle.

Colours

Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF

Size

520 × 120 mm · every country's size

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  Government 300×200 mm

  government · 300 × 200 mm

About this plate

THE AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL SERIES, one entry for § 26 Abs. 2 to 4 because they share one grammar (digits only) and one design (an ordinary white plate). TWO COLLISIONS a parse API must carry, both real: B, K, S, T, V, W and ST are simultaneously Land ORGAN letters here and, for the first six, Anlage 5d DISTRICT codes; and BD is simultaneously the Bundesbus code and the Burgenland diplomatic prefix. Both resolve on the serial, an ordinary district plate's Vormerkzeichen must end with a letter and these are digits-only, and neither resolves on the prefix.

Region code notes

NOT geographic. The Land letters here denote the ORGAN (a Landtag President's car), not the place of registration, and A and the sachliche Bereiche denote no place at all.

Legal basis and sources

1. § 26 Abs. 2 (A), Abs. 3 (the nine Land letters, verbatim list), Abs. 4 lit. c/e/f/h (FV, PT, BD, JW; lit. b repealed by BGBl. II Nr. 275/2007, lit. d by BGBl. II Nr. 376/2002), Abs. 6 Z 1 lit. a (digits only). https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26
2. § 48 Abs. 4: 'bei Fahrzeugen, die zur Verwendung im Bereiche des öffentlichen Sicherheitsdienstes, der Bundesfinanzverwaltung, der Strafvollzugsverwaltung, der Post oder für die Feuerwehr bestimmt sind, sowie bei... https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=48
3. § 49 Abs. 4: the Bundeswappen substitution for § 40 Abs. 1 lit. a vehicles. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49