Belgium license plate: Motorcycle 2010

Retired 2010 to 2020. Motorcycle plates, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Motorcycle 2010 (2010 to 2020), sample 2-SVA-260

Format, years and the law

Format
9-LLL-999, for example 2-SVA-260 (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 2020. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #9B111E Background #FFFFFF
Size
210 × 140 mm · every country's size
About this plate
MOTORCYCLES UNDER THE DIGIT INDEX, 15-11-2010 to 31-12-2020. This is the series that makes a bare "1-ABC-123" ambiguous: for ten years a Belgian motorcycle carried the same string shape as a car, and only the 210 x 140 plate told them apart.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 9 (moto plate becomes 210 x 140 with a European symbol and annexe 2 characters) and art. 10 (the digit index and the 62 x 31 mm blue zone at 5 mm from the borders); art. 16: 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
  2. art. 7: the letter group must begin with 'M' from 31-03-2014 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2014032807&table_name=loi

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is be-motorcycle-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-motorcycle-2010")'