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France license plate: SIV standard

Issued today 2009 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministère de l'intérieur. One of 17 France license plates.

The SIV plate every French car has worn since 2009: a national lifetime number in AA-123-AA form, Euro-band left, chosen région band right.

France license plate, SIV standard (2009 to today), sample BX-427-QM
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999-LL, for example BX-427-QM (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Nothing in AB-123-CD means anything, by design: it is one national counter, issued once for the vehicle's whole life. The only geography on the plate, the département number in the right-hand blue band, is whichever one the owner fancied; a 75 proves nothing about Paris.

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
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • France license plate, SIV standard 275×200 mm (2009 to today)

    SIV standard 275×200 mm

    standard · 275 × 200 mm

  • France license plate, SIV standard 300×210 mm (2009 to today)

    SIV standard 300×210 mm

    standard · 300 × 210 mm

How the region is encoded
NONE, and this is the headline French fact.
How numbers are issued
NOT SOURCED. Neither arrêté states an allocation order. The widely repeated right-to-left increment (digits, then the right letter pair, then the left) and the 277,977,744-combination count are folklore here until a French primary states them, which matters, because the parse API's French age inference depends entirely on that ordering.
Separators
The hyphens are PRINTED and are regulated objects, not typography: arrêté (2) art. 6 requires "les caractères et les tirets" to resist use and forbids repositioning a detached one, and art. 10 I requires the tirets to be integrated at manufacture. THE PRINTED FORM IS A BAR, NOT A HYPHEN: annexe 1 bis dimensions a tiret at 15 x 10 mm against 75 mm characters, and issued plates BK-604-DX, BP-257-RR, EP-651-TE and WW-477-WB all show a thick short block at the middle of the cap height. Evidence: statutory + photographic-observed.

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe VII A: '2 lettres, suivies de 3 chiffres, suivis de 2 lettres ... Exemple : AA-111-AA' https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732
  2. art. 5-10: plate constitution, caractères bâtons, black on retroreflective white, European symbol + F, identifiant territorial and its free choice https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000020237128
  3. arrêté du 23 mars 2009 art. 1-2: the SIV enters into force 15 April 2009 https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000020446205
  4. code de la route art. R. 322-2 I: number attributed 'à titre définitif au véhicule par un système informatique centralisé' https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000032401205
  5. code de la route art. R. 317-8: two plates, trailer rules, delegation to the ministers https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000042266062
  6. arrêté du 15 avril 1996: homologation + the white and blue chromaticity quadrilaterals https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000193190

Before and after

France license plate, FNI (documented 1984 to 2009) It replaced FNI documented 1984 to 2009

This plate in your app

The series id is fr-siv-standard. 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-standard")'
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