Hungary license plate: Temporary 1990

Retired 1990 to 2022. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Belügyminisztérium. One of 16 Hungary license plates.

Hungary license plate, Temporary 1990 (1990 to 2022), sample J98319

Format, years and the law

Format
L99999, for example J98319 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
1990 to 2022. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
THE FOUR-LETTER TEMPORARY FAMILY of the 1990 system.
About its years
START is the 1990 system's start rather than a sourced first issue; END is the 2022-07-01 commencement, after which the "I" plate consolidated these categories. The individual letters' own dates were not sourced.
About the format
The letters and their meanings, as reported: E for a plate valid up to 180 days; P for trial running; Z for export, valid 30 days; V for customs.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hungary
  2. PRIMARY: §§ 63 and 63/A, 'Az ideiglenes rendszámtábla', the temporary-plate sections of the governing decree https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2011-326-20-22

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is hu-temporary-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-temporary-1990")'