Malta license plate: Diplomatic

Issued today 2009 to today. Diplomatic plates for car and van, issued by Transport Malta / Authority for Transport in Malta. One of 13 Malta license plates.

Malta license plate, Diplomatic (2009 to today), sample CDU 420

Format, years and the law

Format
CDL 999, for example CDU 420 (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
2009 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIONS IN MALTA. Note that Malta, unlike Cyprus and Spain, gives diplomatic vehicles NO distinct colour, the mark is the only signal. No per-mission decode is published: the trailing letter is not stated to encode the mission, and this file makes no such claim.

Legal basis and sources

  1. S.L. 368.02 reg. 31(5) https://legislation.mt/eli/sl/368.2/eng

This plate in your app

The series id is mt-diplomatic-2009. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Malta's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mt \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mt-diplomatic-2009")'