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Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 11 light commercial

Issued today 2019 to today. Standard plates for van, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 11 light commercial (2019 to today), sample VVZ-94-M
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Format, years and the law

Format
VLL-99-L, for example VVZ-94-M (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
2019 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
Sidecode 11 for LIGHT COMMERCIAL vehicles, from 13-06-2019, FIVE YEARS before the same pattern reached cars (04-06-2024). The single most useful NL age-inference fact: a XXX-99-X plate starting with V can be 2019+, while the same pattern on a car cannot predate June 2024.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Lichte bedrijfsauto's: serie 11, combinatie XXX-99-X, ingangsdatum 13-06-2019 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode11-lightcommercial. 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-sidecode11-lightcommercial")'
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