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Belgium license plate: Diplomatic CD

Issued today 2010 to today. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Diplomatic CD (2010 to today), sample CD-NO-210
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Format, years and the law

Format
CD-LL-999, for example CD-NO-210 (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
2010 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #9B111E Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Belgium license plate, Diplomatic CD 340×210 mm (2010 to today)

    Diplomatic CD 340×210 mm

    diplomatic · 340 × 210 mm

  • Belgium license plate, Diplomatic CD 210×140 mm (2010 to today)

    Diplomatic CD 210×140 mm

    diplomatic · 210 × 140 mm

About this plate
THE CD PLATE, from 15 November 2010. Belgium keeps the ordinary ruby-red design and signals diplomatic status through the literal letters "CD", the German approach (status in the prefix, ordinary colours) rather than the Spanish one (a colour per corps). The two-letter group is a mission code allocated by the Protocol service and is NOT published in either instrument, a decode table would be an L4 deliverable and is deliberately not guessed here.
Separators
THE SECOND HYPHEN IS YOUNGER THAN THE PLATE. The arrete ministeriel of 8 November 2010 prescribed only ONE hyphen, "Les lettres 'CD' sont separees des autres caracteres par un tiret", so a CD plate issued between 15-11-2010 and 30-03-2014 prints "CD-AB123". The second hyphen was inserted by the arrete ministeriel of 28 March 2014, in force 31-03-2014.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 7 (car CD plate: white ground, ruby red RAL 3003, CD-LL-999) and art. 15 (motorcycle CD plate, letter group begins 'M') https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
  2. art. 6 of the 2010 instrument: the CD plate becomes ruby red on white with a single hyphen, in force 15-11-2010 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2010110801&table_name=loi
  3. art. 4 of the 2014 instrument: the second hyphen, in force 31-03-2014 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2014032807&table_name=loi
  4. arrete royal art. 20 § 4: the CD plate is assigned on the proposal of the Protocol service of the FPS Foreign Affairs, to members of the diplomatic or consular corps, to persons with comparable immunities, and to... 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

Belgium license plate, Diplomatic (documented 2001 to 2010) It replaced Diplomatic documented 2001 to 2010

This plate in your app

The series id is be-diplomatic-cd-2010. 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-diplomatic-cd-2010")'
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