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Cyprus license plate: Standard 2013

Issued today 2013 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Έφορος Μηχανοκινήτων Οχημάτων / Τμήμα Οδικών Μεταφορών (Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Road Transport Department). One of 5 Cyprus license plates.

The current series: three letters from the restricted twelve, a printed gap, three digits always padded to three. White for private cars, yellow for taxis and goods vehicles, red for self-drive rentals, one grammar, three colourways.

Cyprus license plate, Standard 2013 (2013 to today), sample MAK 275
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example MAK 275 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Sequential and geography-free: after MAA 999 comes MAB 001. Only twelve letters are permitted, A, B, E, H, K, M, N, P, T, X, Y, Z, every one a capital the Greek and Latin alphabets share, so the mark reads natively in both.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2013 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Cyprus license plate, Standard 2013 340×200 mm (2013 to today)

    Standard 2013 340×200 mm

    standard · 340 × 200 mm

  • Cyprus license plate, Standard 2013 260×200 mm (2013 to today)

    Standard 2013 260×200 mm

    standard · 260 × 200 mm

  • Cyprus license plate, Standard 2013 260×110 mm (2013 to today)

    Standard 2013 260×110 mm

    standard · 260 × 110 mm

Typeface
not named by any instrument; Secondary sources state that Cyprus mandates FE-Schrift. NO CYPRIOT INSTRUMENT NAMES A TYPEFACE. Καν. 6(10)(β) delegates "τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά των γραμμάτων και αριθμών" to a Γνωστοποίηση of the Registrar, and the operative one, Κ.Δ.Π. 71/2013, defines the letterforms as 23 PAGES OF DRAWN SPECIMENS, by drawing, never by name. The drawn digits are visually consistent with FE-Schrift (the long-footed 1, the open-topped 4, the squarish 8), so the secondary claim is substantively defensible, but the citable fact is "the letterforms reproduced in the Annex to Κ.Δ.Π. 71/2013", not a typeface name. · license plate fonts
About this plate
THE CURRENT CYPRIOT SERIES. Start 3 JUNE 2013, fixed by Κ.Δ.Π. 72/2013, NOT the 9-7-2010 date of the substantive instrument and NOT the 1-3-2013 gazette date of the commencement instrument, three candidate dates, one correct answer, and the instrument-date trap in its purest form. The series applies from that date to first registrations and to any plate REPLACEMENT for any reason including owner election; already-registered taxis, goods vehicles and L-category vehicles had until 3 DECEMBER 2013 (Καν. 4(β)(iii)). This entry overlaps the pre-2013 series because Καν. 4(δ) keeps the old Second Schedule alive for unreplated vehicles with NO END DATE, pre-2013 plates were never invalidated and remain lawful today.
Region code notes
NONE, AND THIS IS A WELL-EVIDENCED SOURCED NEGATIVE RATHER THAN AN ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE. There is no district code, for Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Famagusta, Paphos or Kyrenia, in Κ.Δ.Π. 159/1973, Κ.Δ.Π. 66/1984 or Κ.Δ.Π. 291/2010. Registration is centralised: Καν. 3(α) provides for a single «Βιβλίον Εγγραφής Μηχανοκινήτων Οχημάτων» kept by one Έφορος for the whole Republic. A Cypriot plate has never encoded geography and a parse API must never attempt to decode it.
How numbers are issued
Sequential within a letter triple: the numbers run 001-999 and then the third letter advances (MAA 999 -> MAB 001), which is why the triple is a rough age signal and the digits are not. An applicant may choose an available number within the current letter series.
Separators
NO SEPARATOR GLYPH IS PRESCRIBED. Κ.Δ.Π. 291/2010 Μέρος Ι παρ. 3 fixes "τις αποστάσεις που πρέπει να τηρούνται μεταξύ τους", the distances to be kept between the characters, by reference to drawn specimens, and names no hyphen, dot or other mark.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Κ.Δ.Π. 291/2010 (Ε.Ε. Παρ. III(1) Αρ. 4437, 9-7-2010): Δεύτερο Παράρτημα Μέρος Ι (letters, digits, zero-padding, reduced dimensions) page 1721; Μέρος ΙΙ παρ. 1 (plate sizes) page 1725, παρ. 2 (embossing), παρ. 3... https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/2010_1_291.pdf
  2. Κ.Δ.Π. 72/2013 (Αρ. 4629 page 618, 1-3-2013), THE COMMENCEMENT: the Registrar «καθορίζει την 3η Ιουνίου 2013 ως την ημερομηνία έναρξης της ισχύος των προνοιών της παραγράφου 4(β)». This is the period start https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/2013_1_72.pdf
  3. Κ.Δ.Π. 71/2013 (Αρ. 4629 pages 594-617), the letterform specimens under Καν. 6(10)(β); dimensioned specimen page 595 gives height 75 mm, letter width 47.5 mm, digit width 44.5 mm. Repeals Κ.Δ.Π. 503/2011 https://www.cylaw.org/KDP/data/2013_1_71.pdf
  4. Ν. 86/1972 s.5(1)(α), the enabling power; s.17 the offence of altering the marks https://www.cylaw.org/nomoi/enop/non-ind/1972_1_86/full.html
  5. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Cyprus

Before and after

Cyprus license plate, Standard 1990 (1990 to 2013) It replaced Standard 1990 1990 to 2013

This plate in your app

The series id is cy-standard-2013. 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-standard-2013")'
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