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Luxembourg license plate: Legacy euro

Retired 1988 to 2003. Standard 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, Legacy euro (1988 to 2003), sample OX 951
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999, for example OX 951 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
1988 to 2003. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Luxembourg license plate, Legacy euro 340×110 mm (1988 to 2003)

    Legacy euro 340×110 mm

    standard · 340 × 110 mm

  • Luxembourg license plate, Legacy euro 240×200 mm (1988 to 2003)

    Legacy euro 240×200 mm

    standard · 240 × 200 mm

About this plate
THE 1988-2003 DESIGN WINDOW. The window is a PERMISSION, not a mandate, art. 12 opens "Par derogation aux dispositions de l'article 11, les dispositions suivantes s'appliquent aux plaques d'immatriculation des vehicules immatricules avant le 1er juillet 2003", and §3 says such vehicles "peuvent etre munis" of this plate. So these designs are what a pre-2003 vehicle MAY still lawfully carry today, and the period is an eligibility window keyed to FIRST REGISTRATION rather than a manufacturing window. Conformity is forced only on a change of owner or on re-registration after the registration card lapses (art. 16 §4), with historic vehicles exempted.
About the format
THE NUMBER GRAMMAR IS SHARED ACROSS ALL THREE PRE-2003 WINDOWS AND IS DATED BY NONE OF THEM. Art. 16 §1 enumerates the pre-2003 compositions that may stay in use: "deux ou de trois chiffres", "deux chiffres et de deux lettres", "une lettre et de quatre chiffres", "deux lettres et de trois chiffres". The two-digits-and-two-letters shape is spelled in BOTH orders here because the instrument gives a composition, not an arrangement, an honest widening rather than a guessed order.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RGD 17-06-2003 art. 12 §3 (vehicles first registered from 01-01-1988 and before 01-07-2003: the 520x110 yellow plate with the EC emblem, its exact geometry, the 340 mm fallback and the motorcycle plate), §5 (aluminium... https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf

Before and after

Luxembourg license plate, Legacy yellow (1974 to 1988) It replaced Legacy yellow 1974 to 1988 Luxembourg license plate, Standard (documented since 2003) Replaced by Standard documented since 2003

This plate in your app

The series id is lu-legacy-euro-1988. 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-legacy-euro-1988")'
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