Austria license plate: Standard pre-EU
Retired 1989 to 2002. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, set by the Kraftfahrgesetz 1967 (KFG 1967). One of 18 Austria license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL-999L, for exampleEI-233K(L is any letter, 9 any digit)District letters first, one for a state capital (W Wien, G Graz), two for a rural district (IL Innsbruck-Land), then a meaningless serial that must end in a letter. Today's decode exactly, minus the blue EU corner.
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 1989 to 2002. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 520 × 120 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- ROLLOUT, stated because the instrument states it: Art. V Abs. 5 empowered each Landeshauptmann to set DIFFERENT commencement dates for the individual authorities in his area (with the Wunschkennzeichen plate issue capped at 1 January 1990), so the 1989 date is a legal start, not a nationwide switchover.
Legal basis and sources
- BGBl. Nr. 375/1988 (11. KFG-Novelle), 138. Stück, ausgegeben am 15. Juli 1988. Art. I Z 31 rewrites § 48 Abs. 4 ('Kennzeichen muß mit einem oder zwei Buchstaben als Bezeichnung der Behörde, die den Zulassungsschein... https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblPdf/1988_375_0/1988_375_0.pdf
- the earliest § 49 Fassung RIS holds (BGBl. Nr. 458/1990), already white/black with the red-white-red edging and the Land arms, and with NO EU field. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49&FassungVom=1990-0...
- § 49 Abs. 4a: the voluntary swap that keeps this series on the road. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is at-standard-preeu. 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-standard-preeu")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/at/at-standard-preeu.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/at/at-standard-preeu/template.svg
