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France license plate: Transit red

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

The red transit plate for vehicles temporarily in France under customs cover, bought tax-free by a tourist, or passing through to export. The white figures at the right end date its validity.

France license plate, Transit red (2009 to today), sample UY-993-BX
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999-LL, for example UY-993-BX (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CC0000
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE RED PLATES, successors of the old TT (transit temporaire) and IT (importé en transit) series, plus the two Alpine free-zone usages.

Legal basis and sources

  1. annexe 7 item 1: 'Usages "véhicule en transit temporaire", "véhicule importé en transit", "véhicule pays de Gex" et "véhicule pays de Savoie", Le numéro d'immatriculation est reproduit sur chaque plaque... https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050
  2. art. 4: the usages 'véhicule en transit temporaire', 'véhicule importé en transit', 'véhicule zone franche du pays de Gex', 'véhicule zone franche de Haute-Savoie' https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000049860467
  3. art. 7 al. 4 (the usage expiry date on the plate), art. 9 last paragraph (no identifiant territorial), art. 10 II (exceptional ministerial authorisations to depart from annexe 7 for 'véhicule importé en transit') https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000020237128

This plate in your app

The series id is fr-transit-red. 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-transit-red")'
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