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Finland license plate: Koenumero

Issued today Documented since 1996. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency). One of 18 Finland license plates.

Finland license plate, Koenumero (documented since 1996), sample S-913
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Format, years and the law

Format
L-999, for example S-913 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 1996; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F3A513
Size
338 × 118 mm · every country's size
About this plate
BINDING NOTE: like the German rote Kennzeichen it binds to a BUSINESS, not a vehicle: the koenumerotodistus is granted to a company, may be used only by the holder or its representative, and only for research/development testing, a short sales test-drive or demonstration, or a move directly connected with manufacture, sale, fitting-out, repair or inspection. Traficom's instruction is explicit that the vehicle's own plates come off or get covered while the test plates are on.

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 16(1)(7) https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. A 1598/1995 § 36(4): 'Koenumerokilvessä on sana KOE, yksi kirjain ja enintään kolminumeroinen luku mustin merkein keltaisella, heijastavalla pohjalla', same rule, same word order, since 1.1.1996 https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/1995/1598
  3. ajoneuvolaki § 116 koenumerotodistus ja koenumerokilvet; § 116 applies §§ 99-101 to test plates except § 100(1) https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/2021/82
  4. määräys § 3.9: 118 x 338, vertical KOE 22 x 13 mm at the left edge, hyphen required between the letter and the digits https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  5. who may hold one (a company), the three permitted uses, and that the vehicle's own plates must be removed or covered while test plates are in use https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/hae-ajoneuvolle-koenumerotodistusta
  6. 'Koenumerokilpi (118x338 mm)', captioned KOE 100-H, the source of the order disagreement https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/suomessa-kaytettavat-rekisterikilvet

This plate in your app

The series id is fi-koenumero. 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-koenumero")'
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