# Czechia license plate: Standard 2004

> The Czechia standard 2004 license plate: format 9L9 9999, for example 3H7 3597, 2004 to today, car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, cited to Ministerstvo dopravy.

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Part of [Czechia license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/czechia) (14 registration series).

![Czechia license plate, Standard 2004 (2004 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cz/cz-standard-2004/czechia-license-plate-standard-2004.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9L9 9999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2004 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, trailer |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 340 × 200 mm: nákladní automobil, autobus, speciální vozidlo, přípojné vozidlo — two-line; 280 × 200 mm: osobní automobil — two-line; 320 × 160 mm: osobní automobil whose technický průkaz records a space for this size |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left; border #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `cz-standard-2004` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/czechia/standard-2004) |

Sources:

- [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 modrý pruh se znakem Evropské unie s vyznačením rozlišovací značky České republiky'; Čl. III 'Tato vyhláška nabývá účinnosti dnem 1. června 2004'.](https://aplikace.mv.gov.cz/sbirka-zakonu/ViewFile.aspx?type=c&id=4399)
- [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)
- [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, border, retroreflection).](https://aplikace.mv.gov.cz/sbirka-zakonu/ViewFile.aspx?type=z&id=27609)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard 2001](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/czechia/standard-2001) | 2001 to 2004 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard 2001](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/czechia/standard-2001) (2001 to 2004)
- [SPZ Czechoslovak](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/czechia/spz-czechoslovak) (documented 1984 to 2001)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cz/cz-standard-2004.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/czechia?series=cz-standard-2004
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cz` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "cz-standard-2004"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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