# Denmark license plate: Van parrot > The Denmark van parrot license plate: format LL 99 999, for example ZD 54 447, 2009 to today, van and truck, cited to Skatteforvaltningen (Motorstyrelsen). Page: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/van-parrot-2009 · Markdown version of the HTML page, which is canonical. Site map: https://vehiclesdb.com/llms.txt · Terms of use: https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/terms Part of [Denmark license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark) (21 registration series). ![Denmark license plate, Van parrot (2009 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/dk/dk-van-parrot-2009/denmark-license-plate-van-parrot.svg) | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Format | `LL 99 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) | | Years | 2009 → today | | Class | standard | | Issued for | van, truck | | Plate size | 504 × 120 mm | | Other sizes | 240 × 165 mm: 'kvadratisk' rear plate — SKAT 'Vare-lastbiler - Papegøje kvadratisk' | | Colours | background hvid/gul #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left; border sort #000000 | | Rear plate differs from the front | no | | Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. | | Series id | `dk-van-parrot-2009` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/van-parrot-2009) | Sources: - [retsinformation.dk](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2025/663/dan/xml) - [lov nr. 1338 af 19/12/2008, § 1, nr. 9 (new § 7, stk.](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2008/1338/dan/xml) - [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20170917063422/https://www.skat.dk/getFiles.aspx?Id=e6c2c7e8-e7a7-4b5e-b15e-4b67e27d3f66&name=planche_nummerplader_2012.pdf) - [retsinformation.dk](https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2012/504/dan/xml) ## 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. ## Other standard plates here - [Blokvogn](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/blokvogn) (2008 to today) - [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/standard-1976) (1976 to today) - [Van commercial yellow](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/denmark/van-commercial-yellow) (1976 to today) ## Use it - Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/dk/dk-van-parrot-2009.svg - Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/denmark?series=dk-van-parrot-2009 - API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/dk` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "dk-van-parrot-2009"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api) --- Open data, CC BY 4.0: reuse it with a visible credit to VehiclesDB and a link (https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/attribution). Plate images show sample serials and are not open data (https://vehiclesdb.com/legal/image-license). Dataset commit db0ec0a: https://github.com/vehiclesdb/vehiclesdb