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Finland license plate: Standard EU

Issued today 2001 to today. Standard 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 EU (2001 to today), sample FXH-651
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example FXH-651 (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
2001 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
442 × 118 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Standard EU 256×200 mm (2001 to today)

    Standard EU 256×200 mm

    standard · 256 × 200 mm

How numbers are issued
None to record: A 162/2021 § 17(1) allocates the mark AT RANDOM ("määräytyy sattumanvaraisesti"), so no era or block inference is possible from a Finnish mark, and a lost-plate replacement gets an entirely new mark (§ 17(3)).
Separators
Traficom määräys § 3.1.1: on the 118 x 442 plate "Kirjainten ja numeroiden välissä tulee olla väliviiva", a hyphen is REQUIRED. On the 200 x 256 two-row plate the same section says letters go on the top row, digits on the bottom, and "Kirjainten ja numeroiden välissä ei saa olla väliviivaa", a hyphen is FORBIDDEN. Same mark, two printed forms.

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 16(1)(1), 2 or 3 black letters and a black number of at most 3 digits on a white reflective ground, plus the nationality sign; § 14(2) two plates for a car; § 15 mounting; § 17 random allocation https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. A 764/2000: the FIN Euro-band inserted into A 1598/1995 § 37, in force 1.5.2001, the date this series starts https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/2000/764
  3. Traficom määräys §§ 2, 3.1.1, 4.1-4.4: band definition, 118 x 442 and 200 x 256, hyphen required/forbidden, 72 mm characters, 11 mm stroke, aluminium, ISO 7591-1982 film, embossing, border https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  4. 2-3 letters + at most 3 digits; no leading zero; CD reserved for diplomatic vehicles https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/hae-ajoneuvolle-erityiskilpea
  5. 'Auton matala EU-kilpi (118x442 mm)' and 'Auton korkea EU-kilpi (200x256 mm)' in the authority's own gallery https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/suomessa-kaytettavat-rekisterikilvet

This plate in your app

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