Netherlands license plate: Sidecode 9 car

Issued today 2015 to today. Standard plates for car, issued by RDW (Dienst Wegverkeer). One of 33 Netherlands license plates.

Netherlands license plate, Sidecode 9 car (2015 to today), sample GL-544-H

Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999-L, for example GL-544-H (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
2015 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
About this plate
Sidecode 9 for PASSENGER CARS, from 30-03-2015. Mopeds got this pattern in 2006 and light commercials in 2012, cars are the LAST category to reach it.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Auto's: serie 9, combinatie XX-999-X, ingangsdatum 30-03-2015 https://www.rdw.nl/de-kentekenplaat/overzicht-van-kentekenseries

This plate in your app

The series id is nl-sidecode9-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-sidecode9-car")'