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France license plate: Consular K

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 K (2009 to today)
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 K 999 99 (9 any digit)

K on a consulate's plate marks its administrative and technical staff, the workers, not the consuls. Four groups instead of the embassy's three, and the final pair of digits genuinely names the consulate's département, something no ordinary French plate can claim.

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
K AT A CONSULAR POST, the administrative-and-technical staff counterpart of the C series, and the second of the two French numbers containing a département.
Region code notes
the trailing group is the consular post's département, written into the number, decodable, unlike the SIV band

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe VII D.3, consulats: composition, the point rule, and the 'tel qu'il est utilisé dans les séries normales' cross-reference https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
  2. annexe 7 item 2 https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050

This plate in your app

The series id is fr-consular-k. 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-k")'
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