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Finland license plate: Standard white

Issued today Documented since 1996. 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 white (documented since 1996), sample UES-659
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example UES-659 (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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
397 × 118 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Standard white 338×118 mm (documented since 1996)

    Standard white 338×118 mm

    standard · 338 × 118 mm

  • Finland license plate, Standard white 300×112 mm (documented since 1996)

    Standard white 300×112 mm

    standard · 300 × 112 mm

About this plate
Finland's white-plate era is universally said to begin in 1972, and two primaries bear on that year without stating it, A 162/2021 § 16(2) allows black plates for an imported vehicle "otettu käyttöön ennen vuotta 1972", and Traficom's erityiskilpi page allows them for a Finnish car or trailer "joka on otettu käyttöön vuonna 1972 tai aiemmin" and a Finnish motorcycle "joka on otettu käyttöön vuonna 1973 tai aiemmin".
Separators
hyphen required on all three sizes (Traficom määräys § 3.1.2: 'Kirjainten ja numeroiden välissä tulee olla väliviiva')

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 16(1)(1): the nationality sign applies 'jollei jäljempänä toisin säädetä', so an unbanded white plate remains a lawful issue https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. A 1598/1995 § 36(1)(a), 'auton, L-luokan ajoneuvon sekä perävaunun rekisterikilvessä on kaksi tai kolme kirjainta ja enintään kolminumeroisen luvun käsittävä tunnus mustin merkein valkealla, heijastavalla pohjalla'; §... https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/1995/1598
  3. Traficom määräys § 3.1.2: three sizes for a car plate without the nationality mark, 118 x 397, 118 x 338, 112 x 300 https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  4. who may have the small 112 x 300 plate: a vehicle that already has one, or one an inspector has confirmed cannot take a long plate https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/hae-ajoneuvolle-erityiskilpea

This plate in your app

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