Belgium license plate: Dealer marchand Z

Issued today Documented since 2021. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Dealer marchand Z (documented since 2021), sample Z-KRZ-427

Format, years and the law

Format
Z-LLL-999, for example Z-KRZ-427 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented since 2021; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #114232 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Belgium license plate, Dealer marchand Z 340×210 mm (documented since 2021)

    Dealer marchand Z 340×210 mm

    dealer · 340 × 210 mm

About this plate
Its motorcycle twin keeps the Z index and takes a letter group beginning "M" (art. 16 § 3), its moped twin a letter group beginning "S" (art. 22 § 3), which is exactly why the car series withholds M and S from its own first letter.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 8 §§ 1-3 (white ground, moss green RAL 6005 inscription and border, the L-LLL-999 shape, the annexe 5 vignette, and the three index letters Y / Z / V) https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
  2. arrete royal art. 20 § 1, 7°: commercial plates are governed by the arrete royal of 8 January 1996 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014153&caller=SUM&view_num...

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is be-dealer-marchand-z-2021. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Belgium's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/be \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "be-dealer-marchand-z-2021")'