Latvia license plate: Diplomatic

Issued today Documented since 2010. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by CSDD. One of 15 Latvia license plates.

Latvia license plate, Diplomatic (documented since 2010), sample CD4220

Format, years and the law

Format
CD9999, for example CD4220 (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 2010; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #C8102E
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Latvia license plate, Diplomatic 240×130 mm (documented since 2010)

    Diplomatic 240×130 mm

    diplomatic · 240 × 130 mm

About this plate
THE DIPLOMATIC PLATE, and THE red plate, the one whose GROUND is red, as against the trade plate's red symbols and the transit plate's red field. The three-way {C, CC, CD} distinction is stated by the annex but its MEANING is not: no Latvian instrument reached says which of the three denotes a head of mission, a diplomat or a consular officer, and no mission-code decode is published. Recorded, not guessed. The foreground colour is an inference from contrast, not a quoted rule, the annex fixes the ground only.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 7. pielikums 4.4.1-4.4.3; punkts 13.4 https://likumi.lv/ta/id/222145-transportlidzeklu-registracijas-noteikumi

This plate in your app

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

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