# Italy license plate: Standard 1999

> The Italy standard 1999 license plate (As issued, blank right zone): format LL 999 LL, for example WK 121 NZ, documented since 1999, car, van, truck, and bus.

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Part of [Italy license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy) (20 registration series).

![Italy license plate, Standard 1999 (documented since 1999)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-standard-1999/italy-license-plate-standard-1999.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 999 LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | ~1999 → today (documented from 1999; the format is likely older) |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 360 × 110 mm: targa anteriore; 297 × 214 mm: targa posteriore formato B — 'destinato esclusivamente agli autoveicoli il cui alloggiamento targa non consente l'installazione della targa formato A' |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Rear plate differs from the front | yes |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `it-standard-1999` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/standard-1999) |

Sources:

- [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 22-letter alphabet](https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802)
- [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)
- [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)
- [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)

## Designs

| Design | Years | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| As issued, blank right zone | 1999 to today | The blue right-hand zone with the printed yellow circle, no stickers (Appendice XII). | https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-standard-1999.svg |
| 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). | https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-standard-1999.svg?design=year-province |
| Plate without the right zone (schematic) | 1999 to today | Real plates carry the blue right-hand zone. | https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-standard-1999.svg?design=schematic |

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/standard-1993) | documented 1993 to 1999 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard 1993](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/standard-1993) (documented 1993 to 1999)
- [Provincial](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/italy/provincial-1959) (documented 1959 to 1996)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-standard-1999.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/italy?series=it-standard-1999
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/it` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "it-standard-1999"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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