France license plate: Diplomatic K 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 K delegation (2009 to today), sample V 394 K 752

Format, years and the law

Format
L 999 K 999, for example V 394 K 752 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The opening letter names the organisation the delegation sits at, U is UNESCO, and K marks its administrative and technical staff rather than its diplomats. France gives even the back office of a delegation its own green plate.

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 DELEGATIONS, administrative and technical staff of foreign delegations to international organisations.

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe VII D.3, délégations, note the ellipsis after 'S (Conseil de l'Europe)' 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-diplomatic-k-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-k-delegation")'