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Greece license plate: Standard 1982

Retired 1982 to 2004. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Υπουργείο Υποδομών και Μεταφορών (Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport). One of 7 Greece license plates.

Greece license plate, Standard 1982 (1982 to 2004), sample OPK-7936
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-9999, for example OPK-7936 (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
1982 to 2004. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Greece license plate, Standard 1982 223×160 mm (1982 to 2004)

    Standard 1982 223×160 mm

    standard · 223 × 160 mm

About this plate
THE PRE-EUROBAND THREE-LETTER SERIES. START: ΥΑ 19800/1982 was published in ΦΕΚ Β' 455 on 1-7-1982 and is the instrument that frames this system, but ITS TEXT WAS NOT OBTAINED, so its own commencement clause is unknown and it may contain a delayed or progressive rollout provision. Secondary sources put the first three-letter plates in 1983-1984. This is the file's weakest period claim and the most likely correction. END: 1-5-2004 for the specification, by the commencement of ΥΑ οικ. 4700/330/2004, but SOFT, because that instrument's own final paragraph continues issuance of 1982-specification plates "μέχρι εξαντλήσεως των αποθεμάτων", until stocks are exhausted, on no stated date.
Region code notes
The decode table describes the CURRENT allocation. Directorate boundaries and prefecture names changed materially over this series' life, most sweepingly with the 2010 Καλλικράτης reform, which abolished the prefectures (νομοί) as self-governing units altogether while the plate codes kept their prefecture names. Decoding a 1980s or 1990s Greek plate through the current table will therefore be right often and wrong silently.
Separators
the hyphen is assumed to be statutory in this era as well, on the strength of the 2004 text's continuity, but the 1982 wording was not read, recorded as an inference, not a citation

Legal basis and sources

  1. ΥΑ 19800/1982 «Πινακίδες αριθμού κυκλοφορίας αυτοκινήτων οχημάτων και ρυμουλκουμένων», ΦΕΚ Β' 455/1-7-1982, the instrument's IDENTITY, title and gazette reference. Its TEXT is paywalled and was NOT read; every claim... https://www.e-nomothesia.gr/index.php/pinakides-kuklophorias/ya-19800-1982.html
  2. ΥΑ οικ. 4700/330/2004 art. 9: repeals paragraphs Α, Β, ΙΑ, ΙΓ, ΙΕ and ΙΣΤ of Chapter Ι of the 1982 decision as regards state plates for cars, trailers and motorcycles, commences 1-5-2004, and expressly continues... https://www.dsanet.gr/Epikairothta/Nomothesia/yaoik4700-330_04.htm
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Greece

Before and after

Greece license plate, Standard 2004 (2004 to today) Replaced by Standard 2004 2004 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is gr-standard-1982. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Greece's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/gr \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "gr-standard-1982")'
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