Netherlands license plate: GV sidecode 13

Issued today 2016 to today. Agricultural plates for tractor and machine, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, GV sidecode 13 (2016 to today), sample 8-GV-147

Format, years and the law

Format
9-GV-999, for example 8-GV-147 (9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for tractor and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
GV series on SIDECODE 13, from 23-05-2016. Sidecode 13 exists ONLY for the GV series, no other NL category has ever been issued this pattern, which makes a 9-GV-999 plate a one-shot identification.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Grensverkeer: serie 13, combinatie 9-XX-999, ingangsdatum 23-05-2016 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. GV always with 4 digits https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-gv-sidecode13. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Netherlands's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/nl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "nl-gv-sidecode13")'