# Estonia license plate: Standard

> The Estonia standard license plate: format 999 LLL, for example 271 TZI, 1991 to 2004, car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.

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Part of [Estonia license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/estonia) (20 registration series).

![Estonia license plate, Standard (1991 to 2004)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ee/ee-standard-1991/estonia-license-plate-standard.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `999 LLL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1991–2004 |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, trailer |
| Plate size | 520 × 113 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; border #000000 |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `ee-standard-1991` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/estonia/standard-1991) |

Sources:

- [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)
- [§ 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)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Replaced by | [Standard EU](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/estonia/standard-eu) | 2004 to today |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard A3](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/estonia/standard-a3) (documented since 2011)
- [Standard EU](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/estonia/standard-eu) (2004 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/ee/ee-standard-1991.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/estonia?series=ee-standard-1991
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ee` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "ee-standard-1991"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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