Croatia license plate: Export

Issued today 2008 to today. Export plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske. One of 11 Croatia license plates.

Croatia license plate, Export (2008 to today), sample RH 7822-GE

Format, years and the law

Format
RH 9999-LL, for example RH 7822-GE (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
2008 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Export: plates for vehicles leaving the jurisdiction permanently. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #FFD100 Background #007A33
About this plate
Green ground, yellow characters, the arms between RH and the number. The export registration comes with its own traffic licence stamped "IZVOZNA" (čl. 43 st. 2) and the evidence record names the destination state (čl. 45 st.
Region code notes
A parse API that looks it up there will get a miss, and should.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NN 151/2008, izvozne pločice introduced with the RH literal and the green/yellow scheme https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_12_151_4118.html
  2. NN 130/2017 čl. 43 (what the owner must produce), čl. 44 (the plate), čl. 46 (replacement) https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2017_12_130_2993.html

This plate in your app

The series id is hr-export-2008. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Croatia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/hr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "hr-export-2008")'