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.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 12 light commercial (2024 to today), sample V-43-BVM

Format, years and the law

Format
V-99-LLL, for example V-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
Characters #000000 Background #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

  1. 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")'