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France license plate: Consular C

Issued today 2009 to today. Consular plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Ministère de l'intérieur. One of 17 France license plates.

France license plate, Consular C (2009 to today), sample 137 C 586 88
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 C 999 99, for example 137 C 586 88 (9 any digit)

C is the career consular corps, and this is the modern French registration that still contains real geography: the trailing two digits are the département of the consular post, one in Marseille closes with 13, while the first group names the sending country.

C
Corps consulaire (consular corps)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2009 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #0B5D3B
About this plate
C, CAREER CONSULAR CORPS, for holders of the carte spéciale CC and for service vehicles of consular posts headed by career consular officers. A parse API should treat a match here as a genuine region claim, in flat contradiction to the SIV band.
Region code notes
THE ONE MODERN FRENCH SERIES THAT REALLY DOES ENCODE GEOGRAPHY. The final group is the département of the consular post, written into the number itself by annexe VII D.2, not a chosen band.
Separators
THE ARRÊTÉ PRESCRIBES A FULL STOP HERE, NOT A SPACE, "les deux derniers groupes de chiffres seront séparés par un point", example "105 C 1.75".

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe VII D.2: the C series composition, the point rule and the département group; D.4 for the Z and X suffixes https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
  2. annexe 7 item 2: white on jasper green for C and K https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050

This plate in your app

The series id is fr-consular-c. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of France's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "fr-consular-c")'
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