Estonia license plate: Diplomatic CMD reduced

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 reduced (documented since 2011), sample CMD85

Format, years and the law

Format
CMD99, for example CMD85 (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
302 × 152 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE SQUARE HEAD-OF-MISSION PLATE, the shortest mark Estonia issues on a car, five characters. Overlaps it in period and categories for the same plate-recess reason as the CD pair.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2(1)5) type A7 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv
  2. näidis 7, 'CMD00' https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf

This plate in your app

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