Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 6 car

Issued today 2000 to today. Standard plates for car, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 6 car (2000 to today), sample 87-NR-NW

Format, years and the law

Format
99-LL-LL, for example 87-NR-NW (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
2000 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 6 car taxi (2000 to today)

    Sidecode 6 car taxi

    taxi · 520 × 110 mm

  • Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 6 car 340×210 mm (2000 to today)

    Sidecode 6 car 340×210 mm

    standard · 340 × 210 mm

  • Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 6 car 310×110 mm (2000 to today)

    Sidecode 6 car 310×110 mm

    standard · 310 × 110 mm

About this plate
Sidecode 6 for PASSENGER CARS, from 20-01-2000. The first NL series to be issued under the EU-band yellow design. Parallel with sidecodes 7-11: RDW exhausts a series before switching, so all six car series remain live stock.
How numbers are issued
letter groups advance; RDW does not publish the intra-series allocation order

Legal basis and sources

  1. Auto's: serie 6, combinatie 99-XX-XX, ingangsdatum 20-01-2000 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries
  2. personenauto first letters G H J K L N P R S T X Z https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/cijfers-en-letters-op-de-kentekenplaat
  3. gele plaat, zwart kader, blauw EU-vlak met NL; 520x110 of 340x210 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/soorten-kentekenplaten

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode6-car. 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-sidecode6-car")'