Belgium license plate: National U

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

Belgium license plate, National U (documented since 2021), sample UX-71-SKN

Format, years and the law

Format
UL-99-LLL, for example UX-71-SKN (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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #114232 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Belgium license plate, National U 340×210 mm (documented since 2021)

    National U 340×210 mm

    temporary · 340 × 210 mm

How long it is valid
days: 20. note: DIV: valid twenty consecutive calendar days, one plate per vehicle per holder per year, EXPIRES AUTOMATICALLY without a deregistration step, cannot be renewed, and is valid on Belgian territory only

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 10 §§ 1-3 (car/trailer national plate), art. 17 (motorcycle national plate), art. 23 (moped national plate) https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
  2. mobilit.belgium.be https://mobilit.belgium.be/fr/route/immatriculer/plaque-nationale
  3. arrete royal art. 20 § 1, 7° and the reference to the arrete royal of 8 January 1996 on commercial and national plates 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-national-u-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-national-u-2021")'