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Belgium license plate: Standard 2001

Retired Documented 2001 to 2010. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Standard 2001 (documented 2001 to 2010), sample SBX-338
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example SBX-338 (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 2001 to 2010; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #9B111E Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE PRE-EUROPEAN BELGIAN PLATE, 01-10-2001 to 14-11-2010: 340 x 110 mm, red on white, no blue band. The three-letters-three-digits plate long predates it, the 2001 instrument replaced the arrete ministeriel of 30 August 1967, whose text Justel does not carry in consolidated form (probed 2026-08-02, empty response). Also from this era and deliberately not modelled as series: the "EUR" plate for European institutions (art. 8: blue on white, "EUR" in reduced format inside a ring of twelve yellow stars, then four digits or three digits and a letter) and the "EUROCONTROL" plate (art. 9: three digits or two digits and a letter, then "EURO" in reduced format). Both were abrogated by art. 7 of the arrete ministeriel of 8 November 2010.

Legal basis and sources

  1. the arrete ministeriel of 23 July 2001 AS PUBLISHED in the Moniteur belge of 08-08-2001: art. 3 (340 x 110 mm, rounded corners, 5 mm border, 1 mm relief, character metrics, 20 x 12 mm CV seal) and art. 4 § 1 (white... https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/article_body.pl?language=fr&caller=summary&pub_date=01-08-08&numac=2001014154
  2. the Justel header giving 'Entree en vigueur: 1 octobre 2001' and art. 25, which keeps superseded plates valid until the next registration https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
  3. the instrument that closed this series on 14-11-2010 https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2010110801&table_name=loi

Before and after

Belgium license plate, Standard 2010 (2010 to today) Replaced by Standard 2010 2010 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is be-standard-2001. 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-standard-2001")'
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