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France license plate: Diplomatic CD delegation

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

France license plate, Diplomatic CD delegation (2009 to today)
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Format, years and the law

Format
L 999 CD 999 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

A bare organisation letter, then the sending state's number, then CD: "U 300 CD 20" is a state's diplomats accredited to UNESCO, not to France. That leading letter is unique in the French system, no embassy plate opens with one.

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
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #E87511 Background #0B5D3B
About this plate
CD DELEGATIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, the only French series that opens with a bare organisation letter, which makes "U 300 CD 20" trivially separable from an embassy's "100 CD 20".

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe VII D.1, délégations: the organisation letter, the 200-399 country group, CMD/CD, and the 1-999 order group https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
  2. annexe 7 item 2: orange on jasper green https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050

This plate in your app

The series id is fr-diplomatic-cd-delegation. 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-diplomatic-cd-delegation")'
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