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Denmark license plate: Personalized

Issued today 1992 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen). One of 21 Denmark license plates.

Denmark license plate, Personalized (1992 to today), sample GJHQCAJ
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLLLLLL, for example GJHQCAJ (L is any letter)

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

Years issued
1992 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
504 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Denmark license plate, Personalized 240×165 mm (1992 to today)

    Personalized 240×165 mm

    personalized · 240 × 165 mm

About this plate
THE ØNSKENUMMERPLADE. Its grammar is entirely primary, two to seven Latin letters or Arabic numerals, § 74, stk. Only the 1992 START is secondary. English Wikipedia adds that an ønskenummer may not take the same form as a standard number; that restriction is NOT in § 74 and is not encoded here.
About its years
2 MARCH 1992, reported by Danish Wikipedia, which also attributes the authorising legislation to a law of 8 May 1991 without giving its number. The GRAMMAR below is primary; the DATE is not, and is tagged accordingly.
Region code notes
an ønskenummer is chosen by its holder and encodes nothing
Who the plate belongs to
The one Danish plate that follows a person. § 74, stk. 5: the number "kan inden for rettighedsperioden overføres til et andet køretøj, som registreres til den, der har retten til at anvende ønskenummeret." § 74, stk. 7-8: the right runs EIGHT YEARS from the first registration of a vehicle with the number and is renewable for a further eight against payment, applied for before expiry and not earlier than three months before it. § 74, stk. 6 closes the transfer list to a spouse, a partner of five years' shared residence, or a survivor on death, so an ønskenummer cannot simply be sold on.

Legal basis and sources

  1. retsinformation.dk 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. da.wikipedia.org https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummerplade

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-personalized-1992. 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-personalized-1992")'
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