Estonia license plate: Motorcycle B1

Issued today Documented since 2011. Motorcycle plates for motorcycle, atv, snowmobile, and trailer, issued by Transpordiamet (Estonian Transport Administration). One of 20 Estonia license plates.

Estonia license plate, Motorcycle B1 (documented since 2011), sample 99RE

Format, years and the law

Format
99LL, for example 99RE (L is any letter, 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
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle, atv, snowmobile, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
177 × 101 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE MOTORCYCLE PLATE, and the only Estonian series whose mark may be printed in EITHER ORDER, a sourced union, not a hedge. Categories include MS (snowmobile) and the L-category trailer, per Lisa 1.
Separators
no separator is printed; näidis 11 sets the groups solid across a 48 mm digit field and a 56 mm letter field

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2(1)9) type B1; § 7(2) the reversible order; § 6(2)-(4) https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv
  2. Lisa 1 row B1: kirja tüüp 3, categories L, MS, valge/mustad, 177x101, näidis 11 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa1_m49.pdf
  3. Lisa 2: the W width for kirja tüüp 3 is '-', corroborating § 6(4) https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM49_lisa2.pdf
  4. näidis 11, '53HF' https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ee-motorcycle-b1. 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-motorcycle-b1")'