Italy license plate: Temporary provvisoria
Issued today Documented since 1993. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti. One of 20 Italy license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L9 99999, for exampleN7 87667(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 1993; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
- About this plate
- TARGA PROVVISORIA, issued with a foglio di via. Two things make it more interesting than a typical temporary plate. First, it is the ONLY Italian series still issued that encodes geography in the mark itself, but as an OFFICE code, not a province sigla, so a decoder that reaches for the province table will produce nonsense. Second, it is Italy's historic-vehicle plate by default: art. 214 of the regolamento sends veicoli d'epoca here, "Ai veicoli d'epoca ... per la circolazione nei luoghi consentiti, è rilasciato il foglio di via e la targa provvisoria previsti dall'articolo 99 del codice", with the foglio di via capping speed at 40, 25 or 15 km/h depending on brakes and tyres, and the event needing at least fifteen participants. Anyone looking for an Italian H-Kennzeichen finds this instead.
- How the region is encoded
- THE PREFIX IS AN OFFICE CODE, NOT A PROVINCE SIGLA, and confusing the two is the trap this decode file exists to prevent. Appendice XI comma 1 lists the M.C.T.C. provincial offices as a letter plus a number, A1 Alessandria, B6 Milano, P4 Roma, X4 Oristano, grouped under bare region letters (A Piemonte e Valle d'Aosta, B Lombardia, ...) that are headings and not codes. Art. 255 c. 2 lett. a) adds the maintenance rule: "Detto elenco può essere aggiornato con decreto del Ministro dei trasporti e della navigazione, a seguito dell'istituzione di ulteriori province", so the table grows by ministerial decree and decode rows need period discipline.
- How numbers are issued
- five-digit progressive series per issuing office (art. 255 c. 2 lett. c))
- How long it is valid
- max days: 60. max days special: 180. note: Art. 99 c. 2 del codice: "Il foglio di via deve indicare il percorso, la durata e le eventuali prescrizioni tecniche. La durata non può comunque eccedere i giorni sessanta. Tuttavia, per particolari esigenze di sperimentazione di veicoli nuovi non ancora immatricolati, l'ufficio competente ... può rilasciare alla fabbrica costruttrice uno speciale foglio di via, senza limitazioni di percorso, della durata massima di centottanta giorni."
Legal basis and sources
- art. 255 c. 1 and c. 2 in full https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art255
- art. 99 c. 1 (the six purposes: technical checks, driving to border crossings for export, military reviews, authorised shows and fairs), c. 2 (60 / 180 days) https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art99
- Appendice XI comma 1, the office sigle; art. 214, veicoli d'epoca use this plate https://www.normattiva.it/do/atto/caricaAKN?dataGU=19921228&codiceRedaz=092G0531&dataVigenza=20260802
This plate in your app
The series id is it-temporary-provvisoria. 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-temporary-provvisoria")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-temporary-provvisoria.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/it/it-temporary-provvisoria/template.svg
