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Estonia license plate: Standard A3

Issued today Documented since 2011. 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 A3 (documented since 2011), sample 74NXT
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Format, years and the law

Format
99LLL, for example 74NXT (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
302 × 152 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE SQUARE CAR PLATE, a DIFFERENT FORMAT, not merely a smaller plate, which is why it is its own series: two digits and three letters against A1's three and three.
Separators
NO gap is drawn between the groups on A3: näidis 3 shows "17ELH" set solid, with the digit field 74 max and the letter field 134 max separated by only the 10 mm field margins. The pattern therefore spells no separator at all, the one Estonian ordinary plate that does not.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2(1)3) type A3; § 6(2)-(4) the A/M/W rules for A3 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/128062011017?leiaKehtiv
  2. Lisa 1 row A3: kirja tüüp 4, M/N/O, 'Valge aluspõhi, mustad sümbolid', 302x152, näidis 3 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa1_m49.pdf
  3. näidis 3, sample mark '17ELH', digit field 74 max, letter field 134 max, plate 302 x 152 https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is ee-standard-a3. 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-a3")'
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