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Finland license plate: Siirtomerkki

Issued today Documented since 2021. Temporary 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, Siirtomerkki (documented since 2021), sample ZJ-1813
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-9999, for example ZJ-1813 (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 2021; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #CC0000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
290 × 100 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Siirtomerkki 120×120 mm (documented since 2021)

    Siirtomerkki 120×120 mm

    temporary · 120 × 120 mm

Typeface
Arial Narrow Bold; Määräys § 5.1: "Siirtomerkin kirjasintyyppi on Arial Narrow, bold/lihavoitu. Kirjasintyypin koko on 218p." § 5.2 gives 170p for the motorcycle/moped mark. · license plate fonts
About this plate
TWO DISCREPANCIES RECORDED, both between the regulation and Traficom's own web gallery: 290 vs 292 mm, and (on the snowmobile plate) 124 vs 123 mm. The regulation is the authority.
Separators
hyphen required on the 100 x 290 car/trailer/tractor mark, forbidden on the 120 x 120 two-row motorcycle/moped mark (määräys §§ 5.1-5.2)
How long it is valid
note: A siirtolupa is vehicle-specific and granted for a stated purpose: taking an unregistered or off-road vehicle to inspection or a workshop, moving an imported vehicle from the point of import, and similar. Traficom requires the permit to start within a week of application and requires the marks to be REMOVED AND DESTROYED when it expires.

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 20 Siirtomerkkien sisältö ja väri https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. ajoneuvolaki § 118: siirtolupa, and § 118(5) delegating the transfer mark's dimensions and technical properties to Traficom https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/2021/82
  3. määräys §§ 5.1-5.2: 100 x 290 and 120 x 120, Arial Narrow bold at 218p / 170p, polypropylene, adhesive, character sizes https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  4. the conditions, the week-ahead start rule, where the marks go on the vehicle, and the duty to remove and destroy them https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/hae-ajoneuvolle-siirtolupaa
  5. 'Auton ja perävaunun siirtomerkki (100 x 292mm)', the gallery says 292 mm where the regulation says 290 mm; the regulation governs https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/suomessa-kaytettavat-rekisterikilvet

This plate in your app

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