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Luxembourg license plate: Diplomatic

Issued today Documented since 2003. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics. One of 15 Luxembourg license plates.

Luxembourg license plate, Diplomatic (documented since 2003), sample CD 71-26
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Format, years and the law

Format
CD 99-99, for example CD 71-26 (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 2003; 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, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
About this plate
CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE. The eligibility list in art. 7 c) is unusually concrete and worth preserving as a fact about Luxembourg rather than about plates: beyond accredited diplomats and officials of international bodies with diplomatic or analogous status, it names by office the President, Vice-Presidents, political-group chairs and Secretary-General of the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; the judges, advocates-general and registrar of the COURT OF JUSTICE; the President, members and Secretary-General of the COURT OF AUDITORS; the members and registrar of the COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE; the President and Vice-Presidents of the EIB; the head and deputy head of the EFTA Bureau; and the President and members of the finance committee of the European Investment Fund. That is the European institutional geography of Luxembourg City, written into a plate regulation. THE DECODE TABLE IS A GAP: the instrument states the MECHANISM (first group = the body) and publishes no codes, and no Ministry of Foreign Affairs list was reached.
How numbers are issued
group 1 identifies the mission or international organisation and is invariable for it; group 2 is a serial within that body
About the format
The instrument composes this one to the character. Art. 7 c): the number is 1000-9999 preceded by CD, and "Le predit numero a quatre chiffres est divise par un tiret en deux groupes a deux chiffres, le premier groupe designant l'organisme diplomatique ou l'organisme international officiel en question, le deuxieme groupe formant un numero courant." The hyphen INSIDE the digits is statutory and is a group boundary; the gap after CD is not legislated, hence the class.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RGD 17-06-2003 art. 7 c): the CD series, the two-group split and what each group means, plus the exhaustive list of who qualifies. Art. 19 §3 abrogates the reglement ministeriel du 11 septembre 1995 that previously... https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is lu-diplomatic-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Luxembourg's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/lu \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "lu-diplomatic-2003")'
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