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Belgium license plate: Temporary 2001

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

Belgium license plate, Temporary 2001 (documented 2001 to 2010), sample 232202
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Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 232202 (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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CC0605
Size
340 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Belgium license plate, Temporary 2001 180×140 mm (documented 2001 to 2010)

    Temporary 2001 180×140 mm

    temporary · 180 × 140 mm

About this plate
SHORT-DURATION TEMPORARY PLATES UNDER THE NATIONAL FORMAT, 01-10-2001 to 14-11-2010: red ground, white digits, no index, no European band, and a month-only vignette rather than the day-and-month pair used from 2021. The transit/provisional split is worth carrying into any parse model because it is FISCAL, not operational: arrete royal art. 1, 4° defines a transit registration as one where the FPS Finance has granted exemption from import duty and VAT (or VAT alone), and art. 1, 5° defines a provisional registration as one where it has not.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 5 as published 08-08-2001 (car temporary plate: red ground, white inscription, small-format year plus six digits, the 45 x 38 mm month vignette and its red/blue transit/provisional rule) and art. 13 (motorcycle... https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/article_body.pl?language=fr&caller=summary&pub_date=01-08-08&numac=2001014154
  2. arrete royal art. 1, 4°-5° defining 'immatriculation transit' (import-duty and VAT exemption granted) against 'immatriculation provisoire' (no exemption), the distinction the vignette colour carries 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, Temporary 2010 (2010 to 2020) Replaced by Temporary 2010 2010 to 2020

This plate in your app

The series id is be-temporary-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-temporary-2001")'
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