Italy license plate: Standard 1993

Retired Documented 1993 to 1999. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.

Italy license plate, Standard 1993 (documented 1993 to 1999), sample PX 134 MV

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999 LL, for example PX 134 MV (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
Documented 1993 to 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. 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
486 × 109 mm · every country's size
  • Italy license plate, Standard 1993 340×109 mm (documented 1993 to 1999)

    Standard 1993 340×109 mm

    standard · 340 × 109 mm

  • Italy license plate, Standard 1993 336×202 mm (documented 1993 to 1999)

    Standard 1993 336×202 mm

    standard · 336 × 202 mm

About this plate
Every enthusiast source and it.wikipedia date it to 1994 ("dal 28 febbraio 1994", uncited); the regulation dates its own commencement to 1 July 1993 as enacted and 1 October 1993 as amended, and caps the transition at 31 December 1996. 5 expressly allows a 1993-series serial to be re-plated in the 1999 design.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Appendice XII lett. a) as originally enacted (no blue zones) and art. 260 c. 5 as originally enacted ('a partire dal 1 luglio 1993'), Normattiva multivigenza export at 1994-01-01 https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=19940101
  2. art. 260 c. 5 as amended: '((a partire dal 1 ottobre 1993))' and '((e comunque non oltre il 31 dicembre 1996))'; art. 258 c. 1 lett. a)-b) with the 340x109 / 486x109 / 336x202 dimensions https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=19980101

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is it-standard-1993. 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-standard-1993")'