# Cyprus license plate: Diplomatic green

> The Cyprus diplomatic green license plate: format LLL 999, for example KZB 542, 1973 to 2013, car, van, and motorcycle.

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Part of [Cyprus license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/cyprus) (5 registration series).

![Cyprus license plate, Diplomatic green (1973 to 2013)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cy/cy-diplomatic-green-1973/cyprus-license-plate-diplomatic-green.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LLL 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1973–2013 |
| Class | diplomatic |
| Issued for | car, van, motorcycle |
| Colours | background #007A33; characters #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `cy-diplomatic-green-1973` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/cyprus/diplomatic-green-1973) |

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.

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.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `CD` | Corps Diplomatique | diplomatic corps |
| `CC` | Corps Consulaire | consular corps |
| `AT` | Administrative and Technical staff | embassy support staff |

Sources:

- [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 πρασίνου» — GREEN, for vehicles belonging to members of the Diplomatic Corps or of Foreign Missions. START: identical wording in Κ.Δ.Π. 159/1973 παρ. 3](https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/1984_1_66.pdf)
- [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)

## 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.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cy/cy-diplomatic-green-1973.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/cyprus?series=cy-diplomatic-green-1973
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cy` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "cy-diplomatic-green-1973"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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