Luxembourg license plate: Standard
Issued today Documented since 2003. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, tricycle, quadricycle, and trailer, issued by Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics. One of 15 Luxembourg license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL 9999, for exampleNF 8144(L is any letter, 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
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, tricycle, quadricycle, and trailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#F9B700 - Size
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520 × 110 mm · every country's size
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Standard 340×200 mm
standard · 340 × 200 mm
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Standard 270×80 mm
standard · 270 × 80 mm
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Standard 200×140 mm
standard · 200 × 140 mm
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- About this plate
- THE CURRENT LUXEMBOURG SERIES, two letters, four digits, yellow. Started by the instrument's own commencement clause on 1 July 2003, which is a genuine series boundary here rather than a mere publication date (see the file header). Old numbers were not recalled: art. 16 §1 lets pre-2003 numbers stay in use and only forces conformity on a change of owner or on re-registration after the registration card lapses, with a carve-out for historic vehicles holding a four- or five-character number, which the 2006 amendment widened again so that a re-registration after card expiry never forces a historic vehicle to renumber. That is why four-digit and five-digit Luxembourg plates are still legally on the road in 2026 and why lu-legacy-* below are not dead entries.
- Region code notes
- NOT geography. Luxembourg encodes none, anywhere, in any series, a sourced negative, since arts. 6-8 compose every number from reserved ranges and a sequential table with no locational element. The referenced table decodes ISSUE ORDER.
- How numbers are issued
- THE PREFIX IS THE ONLY DECODABLE DIMENSION OF A LUXEMBOURG PLATE, and it decodes time, not place. So each prefix takes one thousand-block per pass, the table is walked again at the next thousand, and 566 x 6000 = 3,396,000 numbers exist in the current series. Ordering two plates by issue is therefore sound; DATING one is not, because the instrument publishes the order and never the calendar.
- Separators
- The instrument prescribes six alphanumeric POSITIONS and never a separator glyph, art. 11 and the Annexe are silent, and art. 13 delegates "la disposition des caracteres alphanumeriques sur les plaques d'immatriculation ainsi que leur forme, leur taille et leur emboutissage" to a cahier des charges approved by the minister, which is NOT published in the Memorial and was not reached.
Legal basis and sources
- RGD 17-06-2003 (Memorial A n. 87, 25-06-2003): art. 6 (first available number in the current series), art. 11 (dimensions, yellow retroreflective ground, non-retroreflective black characters, the blue EU field with 12... https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf
- RGD 18-10-2006 (Memorial A n. 190, 06-11-2006): art. 17 (the motorcycle-dimension fallback), art. 19 (the 0001-0099 / 0100-3999 / 4000-9999 split), art. 37 (in force 18-12-2006). https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2006/10/18/n1/jo/fr/pdf
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is lu-standard-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-standard-2003")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/lu/lu-standard-2003.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/lu/lu-standard-2003/template.svg
