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Norway license plate: Dealer annual

Issued today 2015 to today. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Dealer annual (2015 to today), sample HYP 62
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 99, for example HYP 62 (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
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CC0000
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
The cross-border validity is unusual and worth surfacing: an årsprøve- kjennemerke may be used in Sweden, Denmark and Finland as well as Norway.
How numbers are issued
NO GEOGRAPHIC ALLOCATION AT ALL, and the authority says so: plates are produced consecutively regardless of which trafikkstasjon ordered them. This is the one Norwegian series where the letters are known to be meaningless.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-11 tredje ledd f (white on red) and §§ 2-20 to 2-23 (who may hold an årsprøvekjennemerke and how it may be used). https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. 2026-07-16): 'Kjennemerkene består fra juni 2015 av tre bokstaver etterfulgt av to siffer'; the trailer T suffix; no geographic distribution; valid in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland; not for carrying persons or... https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

This plate in your app

The series id is no-dealer-annual-2015. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-dealer-annual-2015")'
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