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Hungary license plate: Standard 2004

Retired 2004 to 2022. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Belügyminisztérium. One of 16 Hungary license plates.

Hungary license plate, Standard 2004 (2004 to 2022), sample FGX-975
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999, for example FGX-975 (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
2004 to 2022. 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 EU-BAND SIX-CHARACTER PLATE, the format most Hungarian vehicles on the road still carry. Existing plates were not recalled at either boundary: both older designs remain valid on the road, which is why this file models three overlapping-at-the-edges standard series rather than one.
About its years
START is a reported FIRST ISSUE, not an instrument: the secondary dates the first EU-format Hungarian plate to 1 May 2004, accession day, and names its serial JDA-001. END is instrument-dated: issuance of the six-character format stopped when 303/2021's commencement took effect on 2022-07-01.
How numbers are issued
The first EU-band plate is reported as JDA-001, which is the only anchor this file has for dating a 1990-system serial, and it is a single reported point rather than a published allocation table.

Legal basis and sources

  1. hu.wikipedia.org https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_forgalmi_rendsz%C3%A1mok
  2. 303/2021. (VI. 1.) Korm. rendelet, in force 2022-07-01, PERIOD END, primary https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2021-303-20-22
  3. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hungary

Before and after

Hungary license plate, Standard 1990 (1990 to 2004) It replaced Standard 1990 1990 to 2004 Hungary license plate, Standard 2022 (2022 to today) Replaced by Standard 2022 2022 to today

This plate in your app

The series id is hu-standard-2004. 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-2004")'
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