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Italy license plate: Diplomatic

Retired Documented 1959 to 1996. Diplomatic plates for car, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Diplomatic (documented 1959 to 1996), sample CD 280947
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Format, years and the law

Format
CD 999999, for example CD 280947 (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
Documented 1959 to 1996; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #C0C0C0 Background #000000
Size
275 × 200 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Italy's CURRENT diplomatic and consular plates are real and are not modelled: art. 131 c. 2 of the codice delegates their type and characteristics to a joint decree of the transport and foreign ministries, that decree was not located, and DPR 495/1992 contains no diplomatic provision at all. What IS sourced is the plate this one replaced, and it is worth having: silver-on-black, the same 275 x 200 mm as an ordinary rear plate, and legally attached to a STATUS rather than to a vehicle or a keeper, since art. 327 let the Ministry move it to another car of the same owner and art. 131 c. 4 kills it the moment diplomatic status ends.
How long it is valid
note: art. 131 c. 4 del codice (current law, same rule): validity 'scade al momento in cui cessa lo status diplomatico di colui al quale il veicolo appartiene'; the plate must be returned within ninety days

Legal basis and sources

  1. D.P.R. 420/1959 art. 327: 'AUTOVETTURE APPARTENENTI AGLI AGENTI DIPLOMATICI', anticorodal aluminium, 275 x 200 mm, polished-aluminium characters on black, sigla CD + marchio + registration number; transfer to another... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19590630&codiceRedaz=059U0420&dataVigenza=19920101
  2. art. 131 c. 2: the CURRENT plate's type and characteristics are set 'con decreto del Ministro dei trasporti, di concerto con il Ministro degli affari esteri'; c. 4: expiry with diplomatic status https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art131

This plate in your app

The series id is it-diplomatic-1959. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Italy's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/it \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "it-diplomatic-1959")'
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