Belgium license plate: Historic O
Issued today Documented since 2021. Historic plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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O-LLL-999, for exampleO-ELZ-826(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
- Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
- Colours
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Characters
#9B111EBackground#FFFFFF - Size
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520 × 110 mm · every country's size
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Historic O 340×210 mm
historic · 340 × 210 mm
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- How long it is valid
- min age years: 30. retention age years: 25. note: Art. 4 § 2, verbatim: the "O" plates "peuvent etre delivrees lors de l'immatriculation ou de la reimmatriculation des vehicules automobiles mis en circulation depuis PLUS DE TRENTE ANS. Toutefois, les vehicules automobiles qui sont mis en circulation depuis plus de vingt-cinq ans mais moins de trente ans et qui ont deja ete immatricules sous la marque d'immatriculation avec la lettre (index) 'O' ... peuvent rester immatricules ou etre reimmatricules sous cette marque d'immatriculation ... a condition que ces vehicules restent immatricules ou soient reimmatricules AU NOM DU MEME TITULAIRE." The twenty-five-year grandfather clause is the residue of the pre-2023 regime, which admitted vehicles over twenty-five.
Legal basis and sources
- art. 4 § 2 (the O index, the thirty-year rule, the twenty-five-year retention, the Oldtimer vignette) https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
- the arrete ministeriel of 21 October 2022 that restated the criterion in AGE terms; in force 01-01-2023 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2022102106&table_name=loi
- the 2019 instrument that moved 'O' from the letter group to the index, in force 01-01-2021 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2019121519&table_name=loi
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is be-historic-o-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-historic-o-2021")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/be/be-historic-o-2021.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/be/be-historic-o-2021/template.svg
