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Denmark license plate: Export border

Issued today 2008 to today. Export plates for car, van, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen). One of 21 Denmark license plates.

Denmark license plate, Export border (2008 to today), sample 26 149
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Format, years and the law

Format
99 999, for example 26 149 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
2008 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Export: plates for vehicles leaving the jurisdiction permanently. Issued for car, van, truck, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
504 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Denmark license plate, Export border 240×165 mm (2008 to today)

    Export border 240×165 mm

    export · 240 × 165 mm

About this plate
DENMARK'S EXPORT PLATE, and its shape is unusual enough to be worth spelling out: a white plate with a RED FIELD on the left carrying "DK" over the two-digit year the registration expires, then a bare five-digit serial with no letters at all. The EU band is compulsory on it. The regime is narrower than "export" suggests, § 60 is written for a resident who is emigrating or going abroad for an extended period and taking the car, not for the trade, and the vehicle can be neither re-registered to anyone else nor have its plates moved. English Wikipedia calls it a "temporary export plate", which is close enough to be worth noting and loose enough not to be adopted as the definition.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 60 in full: who may have one (a resident emigrating or going abroad long-term, taking the vehicle with them), the 21-days-before-departure and 6-months-abroad limits, the 24-hour collection permit for someone... 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. retsinformation.dk https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2007/1567/dan/xml

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-export-border. 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-export-border")'
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