France license plate: SIV cyclomoteur

Retired 2009 to 2015. Moped plates, issued by Ministère de l'intérieur. One of 17 France license plates.

France license plate, SIV cyclomoteur (2009 to 2015), sample R 66 L

Format, years and the law

Format
L 99 L, for example R 66 L (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The shape is the decode: one letter, two digits, one letter, as short as "A 11 A", could only ever be a moped, and only one registered before July 2015. The characters count for nothing; the format itself is the badge, kept for life.

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

Years issued
2009 to 2015. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE FRENCH MOPED FORMAT, closed 30 June 2015, the shortest registration in this file (as few as four characters, "A 11 A") and the only French series that is NOT the definitive AA-123-AA shape.

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe VII A second paragraph: the cyclomoteur format and its 30 June 2015 cut-off https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
  2. art. R. 317-8 I: cyclomoteurs carry a single rear plate https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000042266062

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is fr-siv-cyclomoteur-2009. 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-siv-cyclomoteur-2009")'