Croatia license plate: Military

Issued today 2014 to today. Military plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer, and machine, issued by Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske. One of 11 Croatia license plates.

Croatia license plate, Military (2014 to today), sample HV 6226-OC

Format, years and the law

Format
HV 9999-LL, for example HV 6226-OC (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
2014 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9A800
About this plate
A SEPARATE REGULATORY UNIVERSE, like Italy's. NN 71/2018 re-enacts the identical plate specification, so no second series is cut. Two facts have no civil analogue: the plate is expressly NOT retroreflective, and combat vehicles get no plate at all but a mark PAINTED on the vehicle in RAL 9005 black over the vehicle's own base colour (čl. 25 st.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NN 133/2014 (14.11.2014.) čl. 23, the first of the two military pravilnici read here; identical plate spec https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2014_11_133_2505.html
  2. NN 71/2018 (4.8.2018.) čl. 23 (the plate, RAL 1003, non-reflective), čl. 25 (the painted mark for combat vehicles, RAL 9005) https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2018_08_71_1458.html

This plate in your app

The series id is hr-military-2014. 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-military-2014")'