Estonia license plate: Diplomatic CD

Issued today Documented since 2011. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Transpordiamet (Estonian Transport Administration). One of 20 Estonia license plates.

Estonia license plate, Diplomatic CD (documented since 2011), sample CD 7871

Format, years and the law

Format
CD 9999, for example CD 7871 (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
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #1C4FA1
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE FULL-SIZE DIPLOMATIC PLATE for mission staff. Four digits. No decode of the digits is published by any Estonian instrument, unlike Sweden's diplomatic system, Estonia does not publish a mission-code table, and none is invented here.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2(1)4) types A4, A5 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv
  2. Lisa 1 row A4/A5: kirja tüüp 2, M/N, 'Sinine aluspõhi, valged sümbolid', 520x113, näidised 4, 5 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa1_m49.pdf
  3. näidis 4, 'CD 2345', caption 'Välisesinduste diplomaatilise ja administratiiv-tehnilise personali autode registreerimismärk' https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf
  4. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Estonia

This plate in your app

The series id is ee-diplomatic-cd. 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-diplomatic-cd")'