Lithuania license plate: Standard EU

Retired 2004 to 2023. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by AB Regitra (State Enterprise Regitra. One of 16 Lithuania license plates.

Lithuania license plate, Standard EU (2004 to 2023), sample ACD 138

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example ACD 138 (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
2004 to 2023. 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
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Lithuania license plate, Standard EU 300×150 mm (2004 to 2023)

    Standard EU 300×150 mm

    standard · 300 × 150 mm

About this plate
Both ends of this series are secondary; neither is an instrument date. Lithuania acceded to the EU on 1 May 2004 but no source reached ties the plate change to that day, so the year alone is recorded.

Legal basis and sources

  1. PRIMARY (authority): the composition, blanks, colours and EU band that this series shares with its successor https://www.regitra.lt/en/services/state-number-plates/types-of-vehicle-registration-number-license-plates/of-general...
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Lithuania

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is lt-standard-eu. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Lithuania's series:

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