Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 12 light commercial
Issued today 2024 to today. Standard plates for van, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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V-99-LLL, for exampleV-43-BVM(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
- 2024 to today. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for van.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#F9B700 - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Sidecode 12 for LIGHT COMMERCIAL vehicles, from 08-01-2024, light commercials are the ONLY road category on sidecode 12 besides special mopeds (2025) and agricultural tractors (2021). Cars have never reached it.
Legal basis and sources
- Lichte bedrijfsauto's: serie 12, combinatie X-99-XXX, ingangsdatum 08-01-2024 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
This plate in your app
The series id is nl-sidecode12-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-sidecode12-lightcommercial")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nl/nl-sidecode12-lightcommercial.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/nl/nl-sidecode12-lightcommercial/template.svg