Finland license plate: Trailer EU

Issued today 2001 to today. Trailer plates for trailer and semitrailer, issued by Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto Traficom (Finnish Transport and Communications Agency). One of 18 Finland license plates.

Finland license plate, Trailer EU (2001 to today), sample XBQ-121

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example XBQ-121 (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
Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer and semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
442 × 118 mm · every country's size
  • Finland license plate, Trailer EU 256×200 mm (2001 to today)

    Trailer EU 256×200 mm

    trailer · 256 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE TRAILER EU PLATE. The mark itself is indistinguishable from a car's: same grammar, same random pool, one plate instead of two.

Legal basis and sources

  1. A 162/2021 § 16(1)(1) covers 'auton ja perävaunun' in one sentence; § 14(2) one plate for a trailer https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/statute/694140/mainPdf/main.pdf
  2. A 764/2000 extended the FIN band to trailers with effect from 1.5.2001 https://www.finlex.fi/fi/lainsaadanto/saadoskokoelma/2000/764
  3. määräys § 3.2.1: trailer plate with the nationality mark is 118 x 442 or 200 x 256 https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf
  4. 'Perävaunun EU-kilpi (118x442 mm)' and 'Perävaunun korkea EU-kilpi (200x256 mm)', illustrated with DNZ 106 and WAW-100 https://www.traficom.fi/fi/autoilijat/ajoneuvon-rekisterointi/suomessa-kaytettavat-rekisterikilvet

This plate in your app

The series id is fi-trailer-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-trailer-eu")'