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France license plate: Diplomatic K

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 K (2009 to today), sample 160 K 7274
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Format, years and the law

Format
999 K 9999, for example 160 K 7274 (9 any digit)

K is the green plate's working class: administrative and technical staff and international civil servants, not accredited diplomats. The first number gives the employer away, 600 belongs to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, 700 to the cancer-research agency in Lyon.

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 #FFFFFF Background #0B5D3B
About this plate
K, INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS (carte spéciale FI) AND ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL STAFF (carte spéciale AT) of missions, consular posts, international organisations and delegations. Only the numeric RANGE of the first group separates them, 400-499/600/700 for an organisation, 1-199 for a consulate, which is why both series carry range-encoding strict twins. A parse API should score on the strict twins here, not the loose ones.

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe VII D.3, ambassades and organisations internationales; D.4 for Z and X https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
  2. annexe 7 item 2: white on jasper green https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050

This plate in your app

The series id is fr-diplomatic-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-diplomatic-k")'
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