Estonia license plate: Dealer proov

Issued today Documented since 2011. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, motorcycle, and tractor, issued by Transpordiamet (Estonian Transport Administration). One of 20 Estonia license plates.

Estonia license plate, Dealer proov (documented since 2011), sample PROOV 2147

Format, years and the law

Format
PROOV 9999, for example PROOV 2147 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented since 2011; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, motorcycle, and tractor.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE TRANSFERABLE TRADE PLATE. Estonian law calls it TEISALDATAV (movable) rather than a dealer plate, and Lisa 1 gives it the widest category list in the instrument, M, N, O, T, R, LM and MS, because one PROOV mark moves between vehicle kinds.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2(1)6) type A8 'teisaldatav registreerimismärk' https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv
  2. Lisa 1 row A8: kirja tüüp 4, categories M, N, O, T, R, LM, MS, the widest category list of any Estonian type https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa1_m49.pdf
  3. näidis 8, 'PROOV 1203', letter field 205 fixed https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf
  4. the authority: PROOV marks are for unregistered vehicles being sold, tested or delivered, valid up to one year and renewable, with an electronic logbook obligation https://www.transpordiamet.ee/registreerimismargid

This plate in your app

The series id is ee-dealer-proov. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Estonia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ee \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ee-dealer-proov")'