# France license plate: SIV standard

> The France SIV standard license plate: format LL-999-LL, for example BX-427-QM, 2009 to today, car, van, truck, bus, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, and machine.

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Part of [France license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france) (17 registration series).

![France license plate, SIV standard (2009 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-siv-standard/france-license-plate-siv-standard.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL-999-LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2009 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, machine |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 275 × 200 mm; 300 × 210 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `fr-siv-standard` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france/siv-standard) |

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.

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.

Sources:

- [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)
- [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)
- [arrêté du 23 mars 2009 art. 1-2: the SIV enters into force 15 April 2009](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000020446205)
- [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)
- [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)
- [arrêté du 15 avril 1996: homologation + the white and blue chromaticity quadrilaterals](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000193190)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [FNI](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france/fni-1984) | documented 1984 to 2009 |

## Other standard plates here

- [FNI](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/france/fni-1984) (documented 1984 to 2009)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/fr/fr-siv-standard.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/france?series=fr-siv-standard
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/fr` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "fr-siv-standard"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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