Denmark license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 1976 to today. Motorcycle plates, issued by Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen). One of 21 Denmark license plates.

Denmark license plate, Motorcycle (1976 to today), sample HE 29 528

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99 999, for example HE 29 528 (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
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
240 × 165 mm · every country's size
About this plate
SKAT stocks one type for motorcycles AND their trailers ("MC og påhængsvogne til MC"), which is why a motorcycle trailer does not appear as a trailer series here.
About the format
The plate is TWO-ROW (letters above, digits below).

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 69, stk. 2 (one rear plate, not on the side); § 70, stk. 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&...

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-motorcycle-1976. 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-motorcycle-1976")'