Czechia license plate: Standard 2004

Format, years and the law

Format

9L9 9999, for example 3H7 3597 (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

2004 to today. Still issued.

Vehicle class

Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.

Colours

Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF

Size

520 × 110 mm · every country's size

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  Standard 2004 motorcycle

  motorcycle · 200 × 160 mm

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  Standard 2004 moped

  moped · 80 × 110 mm

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  Standard 2004 340×200 mm

  standard · 340 × 200 mm

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  Standard 2004 280×200 mm

  standard · 280 × 200 mm

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  Standard 2004 320×160 mm

  standard · 320 × 160 mm

About this plate

291/2004 Sb. put the blue EU band on the plate. Czechia acceded to the EU on 1 May 2004 and the instrument commenced ONE MONTH LATER, on 1 June 2004, a real gap, not a rounding, and the reason this file does not record 2004-05-01. THE PRE-2004 PLATES WERE NEVER RECALLED: vyhláška 291/2004 Sb. Čl. II odst. 1, verbatim, "Tabulky s registrační značkou vydané před počátkem účinnosti této vyhlášky zůstávají nadále platné", with stock issuable "nejdéle však do 31. prosince 2007". So band-less 2001-2004 plates are lawful indefinitely and the two series genuinely run in parallel.

How the region is encoded

The FIRST LETTER of the mark, position 2 on this series, is the kraj of the issuing registration place (§ 24 odst. 2 vyhlášky 243/2001 Sb., quoted in the file header). SINCE 1 JANUARY 2015 IT IS AN ISSUE-PLACE CLAIM ONLY: vyhláška 343/2014 Sb. dropped the 2001 rule (§ 20 odst. 1) that forced a new mark on a move to another kraj, so a vehicle may lawfully carry a Prague A mark anywhere in Czechia. The decode file states this in terms.

How numbers are issued

The regulation publishes NO allocation order, neither vyhláška says how the digits and the third character advance within a kraj. What is sourced is the constraint: § 28 assigns one letter per kraj and § 19 odst. 3 of the 2001 vyhláška bound each registration office to its own kraj's letter ("Registrační místa okresních úřadů vydávají tabulky pouze s registrační značkou podle místní příslušnosti svého kraje").

Separators

The space is the § 27 odst.

Legal basis and sources

1. vyhláška č. 291/2004 Sb., částka 95 rozeslána 13. května 2004. Čl. I bod 2 inserts the EU-emblem definition; Čl. I bod 3 rewrites § 24 so that § 24 odst. 2 písm. a) reads 'bílý podklad a černé znaky, v levé části je... https://aplikace.mv.gov.cz/sbirka-zakonu/ViewFile.aspx?type=c&id=4399
2. official Sbírka index: Částka 96 [sic, the PDF masthead reads částka 95], Účinnost od 1. 6. 2004, zrušeno dnem 1. 1. 2015. https://www.psp.cz/sqw/sbirka.sqw?cz=291&r=2004
3. vyhláška č. 343/2014 Sb.: § 23 (the class list), § 24 odst. 2 (5-8 characters), § 27 (layout, no punctuation, the sticker gap, the letter and digit charsets), § 28 (the kraj letters), § 29 (dimensions, colours,... https://aplikace.mv.gov.cz/sbirka-zakonu/ViewFile.aspx?type=z&id=27609

Before and after

It replaced Standard 2001 2001 to 2004