Luxembourg license plate: Export

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

Luxembourg license plate, Export (documented since 2003), sample 1004 8524

Format, years and the law

Format
9999 9999, for example 1004 8524 (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
Export: plates for vehicles leaving the jurisdiction permanently. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
340 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
EXPORT PLATES. The qualifying condition is tighter than most European export regimes and is worth recording: the vehicle must be "destine a etre exporte dans un delai inferieur a trois mois a partir de leur date d'immatriculation", three months from registration, not from application.
About the format
TWO ROWS, LINEARISED. Art. 7 h): the number is 1000-9999 "precede des deux chiffres du mois et des deux derniers chiffres du millesime de l'annee a la fin desquels expire la validite de l'immatriculation, les deux groupes de chiffres ainsi constitues etant superposes et separes par un trait horizontal".

Legal basis and sources

  1. RGD 17-06-2003 art. 7 h) (the number, the stacked layout, the EXP letters, and the three-month export condition), art. 11 (the 340x110 size), art. 14 (supplied by the SNCT). 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-export-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-export-2003")'