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Belgium license plate: Standard 2010

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

Belgium license plate, Standard 2010 (2010 to today), sample 1-LNL-595
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Format, years and the law

Format
9-LLL-999, for example 1-LNL-595 (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 today. Still 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
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Belgium license plate, Standard 2010 340×210 mm (2010 to today)

    Standard 2010 340×210 mm

    standard · 340 × 210 mm

  • Belgium license plate, Standard 2010 210×140 mm (2010 to today)

    Standard 2010 210×140 mm

    standard · 210 × 140 mm

About this plate
The 2019 re-cut (in force 01-01-2021) widened the index to "une lettre ou un chiffre" and the 2022 re-cut (in force 01-01-2023) renumbered the paragraphs, but neither touched the digit-index passenger shape, so this is one continuous series. Between 15-11-2010 and 31-12-2020 the SAME shape was also issued to motorcycles, trailers, oldtimers and trade vehicles, which had digit indexes then too, so a bare "1-ABC-123" match does not by itself say "car", and the sibling G2 series in this file record which letter groups narrowed it. No geography and no date is encoded anywhere in the string.
How numbers are issued
Art. 4 § 1, 1° alinea 2, verbatim: "En cas d'epuisement de ces series, la lettre ou le chiffre (index) est place(e) derriere, precede(e) d'un tiret de separation ... et d'une combinaison de soit trois lettres suivies de trois chiffres ou soit trois chiffres suivis de trois lettres."

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 4 § 1 (inscription, colours), art. 3 (sizes, euroband, seal, retroreflection) https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
  2. arrete ministeriel 8 November 2010, art. 3 (the first European-format inscription: 'd'un chiffre (index) suivi d'un tiret ... et d'une combinaison de soit trois lettres suivies de trois chiffres soit trois chiffres... https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2010110801&table_name=loi
  3. arrete royal 6 November 2010, art. 19 (in force 15-11-2010) https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2010110603&table_name=loi
  4. arrete royal arts. 20 § 1, 1° (the ordinary category), 22 § 2 (the number follows the holder), 29-31 (placement) 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

Belgium license plate, Standard 2001 (documented 2001 to 2010) It replaced Standard 2001 documented 2001 to 2010

This plate in your app

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