Hungary license plate: Standard 1990

Retired 1990 to 2004. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Belügyminisztérium. One of 16 Hungary license plates.

Hungary license plate, Standard 1990 (1990 to 2004), sample DDU-285

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example DDU-285 (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
1990 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
About this plate
THE POST-COMMUNIST REFORM PLATE. Hungary changed system as the old order ended: the two-letter/four-digit plate of 1958 gave way in August 1990 to ABC-123, and the change dropped the commercial/private colour inversion that had been the visual signature of the previous system.
About its years
START: the secondary reports issuance beginning in August 1990 with AAB-001 as the first plate. END is the EU band's arrival on 2004-05-01, which is a design change and not a format change.

Legal basis and sources

  1. hu.wikipedia.org https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_forgalmi_rendsz%C3%A1mok
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hungary

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is hu-standard-1990. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Hungary's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/hu \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "hu-standard-1990")'