Denmark license plate: Diplomatic mission

Issued today 1976 to today. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen). One of 21 Denmark license plates.

Denmark license plate, Diplomatic mission (1976 to today), sample PT 76 531

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 76 999, for example PT 76 531 (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
1976 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #0057A8
Size
504 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS OF STATES. Only the SPLIT is secondary, the block, the colours and the compulsory EU band are primary. A NEGATIVE FINDING worth recording for any claims model: § 76, stk.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 76, stk. 1 (who gets blue plates: foreign states' diplomatic and consular missions, international organisations and institutions under registreringsafgiftslovens § 2, stk. 2, and persons accorded diplomatic status... https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/663/dan/xml
  2. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20170917063422/https://www.skat.dk/getFiles.aspx?Id=e6c2c7e8-e7a7-4b5e-b15e-4b67e27d3f66&...
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Denmark

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-diplomatic-mission. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Denmark's series:

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