# Belgium license plate: Standard 2001

> The Belgium standard 2001 license plate: format LLL-999, for example SBX-338, documented 2001 to 2010, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Belgium license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/belgium) (33 registration series).

![Belgium license plate, Standard 2001 (documented 2001 to 2010)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/be/be-standard-2001/belgium-license-plate-standard-2001.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL-999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2001–2010 (documented from 2001; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 340 × 110 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #9B111E; border #9B111E |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `be-standard-2001` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/belgium/standard-2001) |

Sources:

- [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 ground, red inscription and border, the three inscription shapes and the hyphen-height rule)](https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/article_body.pl?language=fr&caller=summary&pub_date=01-08-08&numac=2001014154)
- [the Justel header giving 'Entree en vigueur: 1 octobre 2001' and art. 25, which keeps superseded plates valid until the next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_numac=2001014154f)
- [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)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Replaced by | [Standard 2010](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/belgium/standard-2010) | 2010 to today |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard 2010](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/belgium/standard-2010) (2010 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/be/be-standard-2001.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/belgium?series=be-standard-2001
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/be` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "be-standard-2001"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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