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Croatia license plate: Standard 1993

Retired 1993 to 2016. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske. One of 11 Croatia license plates.

Croatia license plate, Standard 1993 (1993 to 2016), sample VA 8854-KR
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 9999-LL, for example VA 8854-KR (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
1993 to 2016. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE PLATE THAT IS STILL ON THE ROAD. This series ends as an ISSUING series on 2016-07-04 and not as a VALID one: NN 45/2016 čl. 8 and NN 130/2017 čl. 57 both say the owner is not obliged to change plates issued on the older forms, and NN 130/2017 čl. 25 st. 3 replaces a worn band-less plate with the same mark PLUS the band. The 1993-2016 window spans three base pravilnici (NN 12/1993, the 2005 series, NN 151/2008) and is cut here as ONE series because the three of them prescribe the same plate: white ground, black characters, area code, arms, three-or-four digits and one-or-two letters. Where they differ is in procedure, not in the mark. The 2005-2007 instruments (NN 5/05 … 68/07) were named in NN 151/2008 čl.
How the region is encoded
Same prefix mechanism, but with the PRE-2016 binding, which was tighter: NN 151/2008 čl. 40 st. 3 let the plates pass to a buyer only if the registration area did not change, so for a plate issued before 2016-07-04 and not re-registered since, the code is much better evidence about the current owner's area than it is for a later plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. NN 12/1993 (5.2.1993.) čl. 18 (the plate and the serial grammar, word for word identical to the 2017 text), čl. 19 (diplomatic), čl. 34 (repeals), čl. 35 (in force on the eighth day) https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/1993_02_12_185.html
  2. NN 151/2008 čl. 13 (the same plate), čl. 40 st. 3 (the pre-2016 same-area condition on ceding plates to a buyer) https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_12_151_4118.html
  3. NN 45/2016 čl. 2 and čl. 10, what ends this series and when https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2016_05_45_1165.html

Before and after

Croatia license plate, Standard 2016 (2016 to today) Replaced by Standard 2016 2016 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is hr-standard-1993. 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-standard-1993")'
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