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Cyprus license plate: Diplomatic green

Retired 1973 to 2013. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Έφορος Μηχανοκινήτων Οχημάτων / Τμήμα Οδικών Μεταφορών (Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Road Transport Department). One of 5 Cyprus license plates.

The green plate for diplomatic and foreign-mission vehicles, prescribed by name from 1973, then simply not carried forward when the 2013 reform enumerated its colour classes.

Cyprus license plate, Diplomatic green (1973 to 2013), sample KZB 542
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example KZB 542 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The letters name the corps, not the car: CD for diplomats, CC for career consulates, AT for a mission's administrative and technical staff, later paired with a two-digit code for the sending country. The ambassador rides on the lowest serial.

CD
Corps Diplomatique (diplomatic corps)
CC
Corps Consulaire (consular corps)
AT
Administrative and Technical staff (embassy support staff)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
1973 to 2013. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #007A33
About this plate
THE GREEN DIPLOMATIC PLATE, AND ITS DISAPPEARANCE. The diplomatic colour class was not amended or replaced; it was DROPPED. WHAT REPLACED IT IS NOT SOURCED: secondary sources describe a current diplomatic format of a two-digit country code plus CD, CC or AT plus up to three digits on a white EU-band plate, and no instrument establishing that was found, the whole colour paragraph was read, so this is a real gap and not an incomplete search. That current diplomatic series is therefore NOT AUTHORED here rather than authored from secondary description alone. Note in passing that CD/CC/AT use C and D, which are outside the twelve permitted ordinary letters, consistent with diplomatic marks sitting outside the Μέρος Ι alphabet entirely, but that is an inference, not a citation.
About the format
No letter set, no prefix, no digit count.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Κ.Δ.Π. 66/1984 Δεύτερον Παράρτημα παρ. 3(α), gazette page 331: black characters on a retroreflective ground «εν τη περιπτώσει οχημάτων ανηκόντων εις τα μέλη του Διπλωματικού Σώματος ή των Ξένων Αποστολών, χρώματος... https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/1984_1_66.pdf
  2. END: Κ.Δ.Π. 291/2010 Καν. 3 repeals that Second Schedule, and the replacement Μέρος ΙΙ παρ. 5.1-5.7 enumerates white, orange, black, yellow and red and contains NO green and no diplomatic class. In force 3-6-2013 https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/2010_1_291.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is cy-diplomatic-green-1973. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Cyprus's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cy \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "cy-diplomatic-green-1973")'
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