Brazil license plate: PNU diplomatic
Retired 2008 to 2020. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by SENATRAN (Secretaria Nacional de Trânsito), órgão máximo executivo de trânsito da União, Ministério dos Transportes; normative authority CONTRAN (Conselho Nacional de Trânsito). One of 11 Brazil license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL-9999, for exampleQWM-4821(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Blue ground, and the corps spelled out on the tarjeta: CMD for a head of mission, CD diplomatic, CC consular, OI international organisations, ADM administrative staff, CI cooperation experts. The Mercosur plate abolished the tarjeta, and with it, this entire read.
- CMD
- Chefe de Missão Diplomática (head of diplomatic mission)
- CD
- Corpo Diplomático (diplomatic corps)
- CC
- Corpo Consular (consular corps)
- OI
- Organismo Internacional (international organisation)
- ADM
- Administrativo (administrative and technical staff)
- CI
- Cooperação Internacional (foreign experts on cooperation agreements)
The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- 2008 to 2020. No longer issued.
- Vehicle class
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#1D5B8C - Size
- 400 × 130 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- An earlier draft carried this series from 1990 on the assumption that diplomatic vehicles entered the three-letter system with everyone else. They did not: Res. 45/98's colour table (Anexo item 5) has five rows and no diplomatic row at all, and the six blue rows plus the CMD/CD/CC/OI/ADM/CI tarjeta codes appear for the first time in Res. 231/2007 art. 1 § 2 IV, in force 1 January 2008, with Res. 286/2008 giving foreign missions their own procedural instrument six months later. The blue diplomatic plate of the PNU era: six colour-table rows in Res. 231/2007 (Missão Diplomática, Corpo Consular, Organismo Internacional, Corpo Diplomático, Organismo Consular/Internacional, Acordo Cooperação Internacional) share one design, blue ground, white characters, and are distinguished by the tarjeta code, which is why they are one series here and not six.
Legal basis and sources
- art. 1 § 2 IV a)-f): the CMD/CD/CC/OI/ADM/CI codes verbatim; Anexo 5.1 rows 'Missão Diplomática', 'Corpo Consular', 'Organismo Internacional', 'Corpo Diplomático', 'Organismo Consular/Internacional', 'Acordo... https://web.archive.org/web/20140815083608/http://www.denatran.gov.br/download/Consolidadas/cons231.pdf
- gov.br https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/cons286.pdf
- gov.br https://www.gov.br/transportes/pt-br/assuntos/transito/conteudo-contran/resolucoes/resolucao045_98.zip
This plate in your app
The series id is br-pnu-diplomatic-2008. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Brazil's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/br \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "br-pnu-diplomatic-2008")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/br/br-pnu-diplomatic-2008.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/br/br-pnu-diplomatic-2008/template.svg
