Belgium license plate: Motorcycle M

Issued today Documented since 2021. Motorcycle plates, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Motorcycle M (documented since 2021), sample M-QYJ-346

Format, years and the law

Format
M-LLL-999, for example M-QYJ-346 (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
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, TRICYCLES AND MOTOR QUADRICYCLES, "M" INDEX, from 01-01-2021. The chapter covers all three vehicle kinds under one heading ("marques d'immatriculation moto").

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 11 (moto plate: metal plate, inscription, European symbol, embossed seal, rounded corners, 210 x 140 mm, 5 mm border, annexe 2 characters, 62 x 31 mm blue zone) and art. 12 § 2 (the M index) https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
  2. the 2019 instrument that introduced the M 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
  3. DIV: 'Plaque de format moto (21x14 cm)' is mandatory for motorcycles https://mobilit.belgium.be/fr/route/immatriculer-et-radier/plaques-et-certificats-dimmatriculation/format-de-plaque

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is be-motorcycle-m-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-motorcycle-m-2021")'