Italy license plate: Standard 1999

Every design of this plate 3

The same registration series, issued on 3 looks. Same format, same size; pick one to see it above.

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  As issued, blank right zone default

  1999 to today

  The blue right-hand zone with the printed yellow circle, no stickers (Appendice XII).

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  With year and province stickers

  1999 to today

  The optional stickers: last two digits of the year of registration in the circle, the province sigla below (art. 260 c. 3).

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  Plate without the right zone (schematic)

  1999 to today

  Real plates carry the blue right-hand zone.

Format, years and the law

Format

LL 999 LL, for example WK 121 NZ (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 since 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.

Vehicle class

Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.

Colours

Characters #000000 As issued, blank right zone #FFFFFF

Size

520 × 110 mm · every country's size

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  Standard 1999 360×110 mm

  standard · 360 × 110 mm

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  Standard 1999 297×214 mm

  standard · 297 × 214 mm

About this plate

5, as amended by D.P.R. 4 settembre 1998 n. 355, speaks of "le nuove targhe in uso dal 1 gennaio 1999", and art. 258 c. NOTE THE CONTINUITY the same comma establishes: a 1993-series plate may be exchanged for a 1999-series one "con la stessa sigla alfanumerica ... senza che si configuri l'ipotesi di reimmatricolazione di cui all'articolo 102", so serial-space and design-space are orthogonal in Italy, and a 1999-design plate can carry a serial first issued in 1993.

How the region is encoded

NONE IN THE SERIAL. The 1993 reform removed geography from the Italian registration mark completely: Appendice XII lett. a) contains no province element. Geography survives only in the right-hand STICKER (art. 260 c. 3), which is removable, optional in practice, decodes to the HOLDER'S PROVINCE OF RESIDENCE rather than the place of registration, and is expressly not part of the plate.

How numbers are issued

Appendice XII comma 2: the numeric field advances right to left in natural sequence; the alphabetic characters advance right to left, each moving on when the numeric series completes. With 22 letters the space is 22 x 22 x 1000 x 22 x 22 = 234,256,000 combinations.

Separators

The two printed gaps are occupied by the marchio ufficiale (Appendice XII lett. a) names it between the first letter pair and the digits), not by a separator glyph.

Legal basis and sources

1. Appendice XII lett. a), 'due caratteri alfabetici, il marchio ufficiale della Repubblica italiana, tre caratteri numerici e due caratteri alfabetici' plus the left EU zone and the right blue zone; comma 2, the... https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802
2. art. 258 c. 1 lett. a) and b), 360x110 front, 520x110 formato A, 297x214 formato B, all 'fermo restando quanto stabilito nella materia dalle norme previgenti per i veicoli immatricolati anteriormente al 1 gennaio 1999' https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art258
3. art. 260 c. 1 (colours), c. 3 (the two stickers), c. 5 ('le nuove targhe in uso dal 1 gennaio 1999') https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art260
4. art. 100 c. 1 (front and rear), c. 5 (retroreflective), c. 8 (requested combination), c. 9 (what the regolamento must fix) https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art100

Before and after

It replaced Standard 1993 documented 1993 to 1999