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Estonia license plate: Standard

Retired 1991 to 2004. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, issued by Transpordiamet (Estonian Transport Administration). One of 20 Estonia license plates.

Estonia license plate, Standard (1991 to 2004), sample 271 TZI
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 LLL, for example 271 TZI (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
1991 to 2004. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 113 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Its END is much better evidenced: § 7^1(2) of the current määrus draws its exchange boundary at 1 July 2004 from the primary. The Soviet-era predecessor is NOT modelled, Estonian SSR plates carried the ЕА and ЭС Cyrillic suffixes and belong to a Soviet-union-wide system outside this jurisdiction file. NOTE the secondary source's own imprecision: it says the 1991 plates "were composed of three numbers", plainly eliding the letter group that the same article describes elsewhere; the format here is carried forward from A1 and is a RECORDED INFERENCE, not a quoted one.
Separators
On this series the gap between the digit group and the letter group was occupied by a round REGISTRATION LABEL (the annual validity sticker), which is the visual signature of the pre-2004 Estonian plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. The labels were dropped in 2004.', the only date evidence located for the independence-era transition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Estonia
  2. § 7^1(2), the statutory 1 July 2004 boundary, which corroborates the END of this series from a PRIMARY source even though its START is secondary https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv

Before and after

Estonia license plate, Standard EU (2004 to today) Replaced by Standard EU 2004 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is ee-standard-1991. 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-standard-1991")'
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