# Belgium license plate: Standard 2010

> The Belgium standard 2010 license plate: format 9-LLL-999, for example 1-LNL-595, 2010 to today, car, van, truck, and bus, cited to SPF Mobilite et Transports.

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

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

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9-LLL-999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2010 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 340 × 210 mm: marque d'immatriculation carree; chosen when the rear recess demands it (art. 3 § 2); 210 × 140 mm: motorcycle size on a car, by prior DIV authorisation only where the manufacturer's recess is too small (art. 3 § 5) |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #9B111E; band #003399 on the left; border RAL 3003 #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-2010` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/belgium/standard-2010) |

Sources:

- [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_numac=2001014154f)
- [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 suivis de trois lettres') and art. 16 (in force 15-11-2010)](https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&cn=2010110801&table_name=loi)
- [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)
- [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_numac=2001014153f)

## 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."

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard 2001](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/belgium/standard-2001) | documented 2001 to 2010 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard 2001](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/belgium/standard-2001) (documented 2001 to 2010)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/be/be-standard-2010.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/belgium?series=be-standard-2010
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/be` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "be-standard-2010"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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