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Germany license plate: Green tax-exempt

Issued today 1956 to today. Agricultural plates for tractor, machine, trailer, and truck, set by the Fahrzeug-Zulassungsverordnung (FZV). One of 13 Germany license plates.

Germany license plate, Green tax-exempt (1956 to today), sample EF-KF 1093
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-LL 9999, for example EF-KF 1093 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Decodes like any German plate, district prefix, meaningless serial. The green ink is the code: the keeper pays no vehicle tax, a rule in the law since 1956, one sentence after black-on-white. Mostly farm machinery, but the criterion is tax, not tractors.

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

Years issued
1956 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for tractor, machine, trailer, and truck.
Colours
Characters #008000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
GRÜNES KENNZEICHEN, and the redate pass's biggest surprise: the green tax-exempt colour rule is 1956-ORIGINAL, in the very sentence after black-on-white, § 60 Abs. 1 Satz 2 StVZO as amended 14.3.1956, quoted verbatim in the source line, in force 1.7.1956, and already with an exclusion list of the same shape as today's § 10 Abs. 2 FZV (authority vehicles and diplomatic/consular personnel vehicles excluded from green). The 32. ÄndVStVR (2000) still carries a transitional headed "§ 60 Abs. 1 Satz 2 (grüne amtliche Kennzeichen)", continuity across the era boundary. Flagged as a vocabulary gap in the L0 report.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 10 Abs. 2: green lettering on white for vehicles whose keeper is exempt from motor-vehicle tax, with the seven-item exclusion list, plus the trailer special rule under § 10 KraftStG https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/__10.html
  2. V. vom 14.3.1956, BGBl. I S. 199, § 60 Abs. 1 Satz 2 StVZO, verbatim: 'Bei Fahrzeugen, deren Halten von der Kraftfahrzeugsteuer befreit ist, ist die Beschriftung grün auf weißem Grund; dies gilt nicht für Fahrzeuge... https://media.offenegesetze.de/bgbl1/1956/bgbl1_1956_15.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is de-green-taxexempt. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Germany's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/de \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "de-green-taxexempt")'
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