# Luxembourg license plate: Personalized

> The Luxembourg personalized license plate: format 9999, for example 7869, documented since 2003. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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

![Luxembourg license plate, Personalized (documented since 2003)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/lu/lu-personalized-2003/luxembourg-license-plate-personalized.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2003 → today (documented from 2003; the format is likely older) |
| Class | personalized |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, tricycle, quadricycle, trailer |
| 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-personalized-2003` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/luxembourg/personalized-2003) |

Sources:

- [RGD 17-06-2003 art. 8 (the three series a personalised number may come from, the waiting list, transfer between the holder's vehicles, the 36-month reservation, inheritance at first degree, and the fees of 50 EUR on first grant / 24 EUR on transfer) and art. 9 §2 (the five renunciation outcomes).](https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf)
- [RGD 18-10-2006 art. 19: 0100-3999 within each letter series becomes available as personalised numbers.](https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2006/10/18/n1/jo/fr/pdf)

## About this plate

NUMEROS D'IMMATRICULATION PERSONNALISES. Recorded as a dated gap rather than updated from a secondary, because a fee is exactly the kind of fact that is cheap to get wrong and expensive to be wrong about. Note also the transfer mechanism in art. 16 §1 that a parse API should know: a pre-2003 two-letters-three-digits number carried forward as a personalised number gets AN EXTRA DIGIT INSERTED before its three ("ces trois chiffres sont precedes par un chiffre supplementaire"), so some modern-looking six-character Luxembourg plates are legacy numbers padded to fit.

## How numbers are issued

Not sequential, chosen. The four-digit series is scarce enough to have a statutory queue: "les demandes pour l'octroi d'un tel numero sont inscrites, dans l'ordre sequentiel de leur entree, dans une liste d'attente", one per person for life, allocated as numbers free up.

## About the format

Art. 8 §1 lets an applicant request a personalised number drawn from the current series, from the four-digit series 1000-9999, or from the five-digit series 10000-99999; the 2006 amendment adds the 0100-3999 numeric element inside each letter series. So a personalised Luxembourg number may look exactly like an ordinary one, may look like a bare four- or five-digit number, and cannot be told apart from an ordinary current-series plate by inspection alone, except in the one direction that IS decidable: a two-letter plate whose digits fall below 4000 is personalised, because the current series starts at 4000. A match here is a shape hit only.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/lu/lu-personalized-2003.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/luxembourg?series=lu-personalized-2003
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/lu` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "lu-personalized-2003"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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