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Finland license plate: Diplomatic CD

Issued today Documented since 1996. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency). One of 18 Finland license plates.

Finland license plate, Diplomatic CD (documented since 1996), sample CD-9009
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Format, years and the law

Format
CD-9999, for example CD-9009 (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 1996; 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, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #225296
Size
397 × 118 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Diplomatic CD 300×112 mm (documented since 1996)

    Diplomatic CD 300×112 mm

    diplomatic · 300 × 112 mm

  • Finland license plate, Diplomatic CD 165×200 mm (documented since 1996)

    Diplomatic CD 165×200 mm

    diplomatic · 165 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE CD PLATE. Blue ground, white raised characters, no Euro-band, and a serial the Ministry for Foreign Affairs allocates, the one Finnish mark outside § 17's random pool.
How numbers are issued
allocated by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, not by Traficom's random pool; Traficom issues the plates only on the Ministry's 'kilpisuositus' (plate recommendation).

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 16(1)(4), first limb: 'ulkovallan diplomaattisen edustuston ja lähetetyn konsulin viraston sekä muun vastaavassa asemassa olevan edustuston virka-auton sekä diplomaattisen edustajan, lähetetyn konsulin ja... https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. A 1598/1995 § 36(1)(c) carries the same CD rule (then 'ulkoasiainministeriön'), in force 1.1.1996 https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/1995/1598
  3. määräys § 3.7: 118 x 397 or 112 x 300 for a car, 200 x 165 for a motorcycle, and 'Diplomaattikilpiä voidaan antaa myös muihin ajoneuvoihin kuin autoon ja moottoripyörään' https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  4. diplomatic registration is granted only on a Ministry for Foreign Affairs 'kilpisuositus'; Traficom posts the plates to a Finnish address https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/hae-ajoneuvolle-diplomaattirekisterointia
  5. 'Diplomaattikilpi (118x397 mm)', illustrated with CD-1124 https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/suomessa-kaytettavat-rekisterikilvet

This plate in your app

The series id is fi-diplomatic-cd. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Finland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fi \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "fi-diplomatic-cd")'
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