Belgium license plate: Temporary W

Issued today Documented since 2021. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, motorcycle, and moped, issued by SPF Mobilite et Transports. One of 33 Belgium license plates.

Belgium license plate, Temporary W (documented since 2021), sample WB-75-HFZ

Format, years and the law

Format
WL-99-LLL, for example WB-75-HFZ (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 since 2021; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, motorcycle, and moped.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CC0605
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Belgium license plate, Temporary W 340×210 mm (documented since 2021)

    Temporary W 340×210 mm

    temporary · 340 × 210 mm

  • Belgium license plate, Temporary W 210×140 mm (documented since 2021)

    Temporary W 210×140 mm

    temporary · 210 × 140 mm

  • Belgium license plate, Temporary W 100×120 mm (documented since 2021)

    Temporary W 100×120 mm

    temporary · 100 × 120 mm

About this plate
Note that DIV also delivers a REPRODUCTION with these plates (art. 22 § 1 last sentence), which it does not do for ordinary ones.

Legal basis and sources

  1. art. 5 §§ 1-4 (cars and trailers), art. 13 §§ 1-4 (motorcycles), art. 21 §§ 1-4 (mopeds) https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014154&caller=SUM&view_num...
  2. arrete royal art. 5 § 1 (who may hold a temporary registration) and art. 20 § 1, 3° (the short-duration category); art. 5 § 3: a temporary registration runs at least two months and a NEW plate is issued on every... https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/article.pl?language=fr&lg_txt=f&numac_search=2001014153&caller=SUM&view_num...
  3. mobilit.belgium.be https://mobilit.belgium.be/fr/route/immatriculer/immatriculer-temporairement-plaque-w

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is be-temporary-w-2021. 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-w-2021")'