# Austria license plate: Standard

> The Austria standard license plate: format LL-999L, for example W 84216 A, 2002 to today, car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.

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Part of [Austria license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/austria) (18 registration series).

![Austria license plate, Standard (2002 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/at/at-standard/austria-license-plate-standard.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL-999L` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2002 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, trailer |
| Plate size | 520 × 120 mm |
| Other sizes | 300 × 200 mm: Muster III, zweizeilig; 460 × 120 mm: Muster IX, permitted as a FRONT plate for short Wunschkennzeichen and for capital-city plates of up to four Vormerkzeichen (§ 25d Abs. 6 KDV) |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `at-standard` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/austria/standard) |

The everyday Austrian plate: district letters, Land arms, then the number — issued to cars, vans and trucks alike.

The leading letters name the district: state capitals get one letter (W Wien, I Innsbruck), rural districts two (IL Innsbruck-Land, GU Graz-Umgebung). The serial means nothing, but the law makes it end in a letter — the quiet tell separating private plates from digits-only official ones.

Sources:

- [§ 48 Abs. 4: 'Die Kennzeichen müssen aus lateinischen Buchstaben und arabischen Ziffern bestehen. Das Kennzeichen muss mit einem oder zwei Buchstaben als Bezeichnung der Behörde ... beginnen.' Abs. 5: the delegation to Verordnung.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=48)
- [§ 26 Abs. 1 (Anlage 5d), Abs. 6 Z 2 (the ordinary serial grammar), Z 4-5 (charset), Abs. 7 (the hyphen).](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26)
- [§ 49 Abs. 4: white/black, retroreflective, EU field, Land arms, red-white-red edging; Abs. 4a: the voluntary swap to an EU plate.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49)
- [KDV Anlage 5e: GKT einzeilig = Muster I 520 x 120 mm, EU emblem +, weiß/schwarz, Wappen +, up to 6 Vormerkzeichen; GKT zweizeilig = Muster III 300 x 200 mm.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40267389/NOR40267389.html)
- [the § 49 Fassung in force 25.05.2002-31.10.2002 — NO EU-field sentence. The pair of Fassungen is the period evidence.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49&FassungVom=2002-05-25)
- [the § 49 Fassung in force from 01.11.2002 (BGBl. I Nr. 80/2002) — the EU-field sentence appears.](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49&FassungVom=2002-11-01)

## About this plate

Nothing in Austrian law forces the swap, so pre-2002 white plates are lawful indefinitely and the two series are genuinely parallel.

## How the region is encoded

§ 48 Abs. 4 KFG: one or two letters naming the AUTHORITY in whose local area the vehicle is registered. Unlike Germany's, the list is inside the regulation (KDV Anlage 5d, 98 rows) and is therefore fully authored in the decode file. The split point is unambiguous for this series because the Vormerkzeichen must begin with a digit, the prefix is exactly the leading letter run.

## How numbers are issued

§ 26 Abs. 6 Z 2 KDV: the Vormerkzeichen is a DIGIT BLOCK followed by a LETTER BLOCK ("mit einer Ziffer beginnen und mit einem Buchstaben enden", "alle Buchstaben und alle Ziffern nur je in geschlossenen Blöcken"), with one to three letters and at least one digit, four or five characters in total, five or six for plates assigned in the Landeshauptstädte and in Land Wien. The KDV publishes no allocation order inside those blocks.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard pre-EU](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/austria/standard-preeu) | 1989 to 2002 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard pre-EU](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/austria/standard-preeu) (1989 to 2002)
- [Black plate](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/austria/blackplate) (documented 1968 to 1990)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/at/at-standard.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/austria?series=at-standard
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/at` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "at-standard"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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