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Denmark license plate: Standard

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

Denmark license plate, Standard (1976 to today), sample OJ 78 623
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99 999, for example OJ 78 623 (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
504 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Denmark license plate, Standard 240×165 mm (1976 to today)

    Standard 240×165 mm

    standard · 240 × 165 mm

About this plate
THE DANISH STANDARD PLATE. Two things about it are unusual and both are sourced. First, the SIZE: 504 x 120 mm, not the 520 x 110 mm that the rest of Europe uses and that both Wikipedia infoboxes assert, SKAT's own catalogue says "120x504" in every white-plate row, and the archived skat.dk series page says "120 x 504" for Serie 61. The 520 x 110 figure is corrected away here. Second, the EU BAND IS OPTIONAL and has been since it appeared: § 68, stk. 5 gives the choice to whoever registers the vehicle, so a bandless Danish plate may be brand new. Colour is white ground / black characters / red border throughout; the red border is what makes the plate recognisable and it appears in no instrument.
About its years
1976 is 1 APRIL 1976, and it is dated by the instrument in force today rather than by an enthusiast page: BEK 663/2025 § 72, stk. 4, nr. 4 refuses a replacement plate where the number does not follow "de retningslinjer for udformning af registreringsnumre, der har været gældende siden den 1. april 1976"; § 70, stk. 3 exempts "nummerplader fra før den 1. april 1976" from the two-screw rule; § 75, stk. 1 opens the historic plate to vehicles "registreret første gang før den 1. april 1976".
Region code notes
NOT geography, Denmark encodes VEHICLE KIND in the digit block and has encoded no region since the single-letter county plates ended. The decode file is named for what it actually decodes.
How numbers are issued
NO AGE SIGNAL, NO GEOGRAPHY. The two letters are a serial, not a region: the pre-1958 single letter was the county marker and it is long gone. 6), and allocation restarted from AA when the digital register came in, so a letter pair dates nothing.
Separators
The printed gaps are gaps, not glyphs: no Danish instrument prescribes a separator character.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 68, stk. 2 (two Latin letters + one to five Arabic numerals); § 69, stk. 1 (two plates); § 70 (mounting); § 72, stk. 4, nr. 4 and § 70, stk. 3 and § 75, stk. https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/663/dan/xml
  2. SKAT 'Liste over alle pladetyper i Danmark pr. https://web.archive.org/web/20170917063422/https://www.skat.dk/getFiles.aspx?Id=e6c2c7e8-e7a7-4b5e-b15e-4b67e27d3f66&...
  3. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20110716080639/http://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oId=1826647
  4. da.wikipedia.org https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummerplade

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-standard-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-standard-1976")'
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