Estonia license plate: Diplomatic CMD

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 CMD (documented since 2011), sample CMD 383

Format, years and the law

Format
CMD 999, for example CMD 383 (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 HEAD-OF-MISSION PLATE. Three digits after a fixed CMD.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2(1)4) type A5 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv
  2. näidis 5, 'CMD 234', caption naming heads of missions https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf

This plate in your app

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