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Denmark license plate: Van parrot

Issued today 2009 to today. Standard plates for van and truck, issued by Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen). One of 21 Denmark license plates.

Denmark license plate, Van parrot (2009 to today), sample ZD 54 447
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99 999, for example ZD 54 447 (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
2009 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for van and truck.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
504 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Denmark license plate, Van parrot 240×165 mm (2009 to today)

    Van parrot 240×165 mm

    standard · 240 × 165 mm

About this plate
THE PAPEGØJEPLADE ("parrot plate"), and the reason Danish plates are worth modelling at all: the COLOUR ENCODES THE TAX CLASS, not the vehicle. Three registered uses, three looks, exclusively commercial is all yellow, private or mixed is yellow-and-white, and a car is white. The word appears in the instrument exactly once, parenthetically, in § 82, stk. 2, and that one parenthesis is what dates the plate to 1 January 2009. Note the asymmetry the instrument creates: a van first registered between 3 June 1998 and the end of 2008 may still be running on the OLD sticker regime, so the absence of a parrot plate on a mixed-use van is not evidence of anything.
About its years
1 JANUARY 2009, from the instrument's own words rather than from the enthusiast web. BEK 663/2025 § 82, stk. 2 disapplies the rear-window mærke for a vare- or lastbil first registered "efter den 31. december 2008", and for one first registered between 3 June 1998 and 1 January 2009 that has since been re-registered "med nummerpladen for vare- og lastbiler, der er anmeldt til privat eller til blandet privat og erhvervsmæssig brug (papegøjenummerplade)". The sticker regime therefore ran 3 June 1998 - 31 December 2008 and the PLATE took over on 1 January 2009. The enabling power is § 1, nr. 9 of lov nr. 1338 af 19. december 2008, which inserts a new stk. NOT RE-DERIVED: the stykke numbering of § 7 in the consolidated LBK nr 179 af 22/02/2023 may differ from the 2008 insertion, and no claim is made that it does not.

Legal basis and sources

  1. retsinformation.dk https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/663/dan/xml
  2. lov nr. 1338 af 19/12/2008, § 1, nr. 9 (new § 7, stk. https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2008/1338/dan/xml
  3. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20170917063422/https://www.skat.dk/getFiles.aspx?Id=e6c2c7e8-e7a7-4b5e-b15e-4b67e27d3f66&...
  4. retsinformation.dk https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2012/504/dan/xml

This plate in your app

The series id is dk-van-parrot-2009. 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-van-parrot-2009")'
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