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Finland license plate: Standard black

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

Finland license plate, Standard black (documented since 1996), sample ISV-785
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example ISV-785 (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 1996; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #000000
Size
338 × 118 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Standard black 397×118 mm (documented since 1996)

    Standard black 397×118 mm

    historic · 397 × 118 mm

About this plate
THE RETRO BLACK PLATE, and the trap it sets. It looks like a pre-1972 Finnish plate and it is not one: a black plate issued today carries the MODERN § 16(1)(1) mark (2-3 letters, then up to 3 digits), because § 16(2) says in terms that it is "1 momentin 1 tai 2 kohdassa tarkoitettu rekisteritunnus" printed white on black. Nothing about the SERIAL is historic; only the colours are.

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 16(2), verbatim: 'Ajoneuvoa varten voidaan hakemuksesta antaa rekisterikilvet, joissa 1 momentin 1 tai 2 kohdassa tarkoitettu rekisteritunnus on valkoinen mustalla pohjalla ilman kansallisuustunnusta, jos... https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. A 1598/1995 § 36(1)(f) carries the same rule with the same 1972 cutoff, the regime is at least as old as 1996 https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/1995/1598
  3. the four eligibility routes, including 'Suomessa käyttöönotetulle autolle tai perävaunulle, joka on otettu käyttöön vuonna 1972 tai aiemmin' and 'Suomessa käyttöönotetulle moottoripyörälle, joka on otettu käyttöön... https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/hae-ajoneuvolle-erityiskilpea
  4. määräys §§ 3.1.2, 4.1.2, 4.4: black car plates are 118 x 338 or 118 x 397, non-reflective, white mark and border https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is fi-standard-black. 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-standard-black")'
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