# Luxembourg license plate: Legacy euro

> The Luxembourg legacy euro license plate: format LL 999, for example OX 951, 1988 to 2003, car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.

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Part of [Luxembourg license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg) (15 registration series).

![Luxembourg license plate, Legacy euro (1988 to 2003)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/lu/lu-legacy-euro-1988/luxembourg-license-plate-legacy-euro.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1988–2003 |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 340 × 110 mm: rear where the location is only 340 mm wide, and the FRONT plate in every case — art. 12 §3 sends both back to the §2 specification; 240 × 200 mm: motocycles, WITHOUT the European emblem and with the national L sign below the number on black |
| Colours | background #F9B700; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `lu-legacy-euro-1988` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg/legacy-euro-1988) |

Sources:

- [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 and relief), §6 (the separate oval L and the prohibition on incorporating it), art. 16 §1 (the four surviving number compositions) and §4 (pre-2003 plates may stay in use).](https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Legacy yellow](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg/legacy-yellow-1974) | 1974 to 1988 |
| Replaced by | [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg/standard-2003) | documented since 2003 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg/standard-2003) (documented since 2003)
- [Legacy yellow](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg/legacy-yellow-1974) (1974 to 1988)
- [Legacy black](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg/legacy-black) (documented 1955 to 1974)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/lu/lu-legacy-euro-1988.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/luxembourg?series=lu-legacy-euro-1988
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/lu` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "lu-legacy-euro-1988"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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