Croatia license plate: Historic

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

Croatia license plate, Historic (2008 to today), sample UQ PV-310

Format, years and the law

Format
LL PV-999, for example UQ PV-310 (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
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
The oldtimer mark is protected from collision in two directions: čl. 22 st. 7 refuses a by-choice mark that would coincide with it, and čl. 22 st. 9 forbids choosing a mark for an oldtimer at all.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NN 151/2008 čl. 13 st. 8-9, the PV mark is introduced here https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_12_151_4118.html
  2. NN 130/2017 čl. 18 st. 8-9; čl. 22 st. 9 (no by-choice mark on an oldtimer); čl. 47 st. 7 (oldtimer plates are held 180 days after deregistration, twice the ordinary 90) https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2017_12_130_2993.html

This plate in your app

The series id is hr-historic-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-historic-2008")'