VehiclesDB

Norway license plate: Green varebil

Issued today Documented since 1990. Standard plates for van, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Green varebil (documented since 1990), sample JA 31546
Make this plate with your text Download the blank template (SVG) Every Norway license plate

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example JA 31546 (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
Documented since 1990; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #008F72
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE GREEN VAREBIL KLASSE 2 PLATE, Norway's most visible tax-class signal and, unusually, one a plate string cannot reveal: the number is drawn from the ordinary sequence, so ONLY THE COLOUR distinguishes it. Flagged as a vocabulary gap.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-11 tredje ledd bokstav b, verbatim: 'Varebil klasse 2 skal ha kjennemerke med sorte tegn på grønn reflekterende bunn.' https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. the forskrift AS ORIGINALLY MADE, showing the green rule already present at § 2-5 nr. 2 bokstav b; ikrafttredelse 1 April 1990. This is the citation that dates the series. https://lovdata.no/dokument/LTI/forskrift/1990-01-25-92
  3. forskrift 13. juli 2015 nr. 888, in force 1 September 2015: the RENUMBERING of kapittel 2 that moved the colour rules from § 2-5 to § 2-11. Cited to show it did NOT introduce the green plate. https://lovdata.no/dokument/LTI/forskrift/2015-07-13-888
  4. 2026-07-16): green plates carry two letters + FIVE digits like ordinary cars; up to three seats; goods transport only; lower tax; 'Hvem som helst kan eie en bil med grønne skilt'. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

This plate in your app

The series id is no-green-varebil-1990. 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-green-varebil-1990")'
Check plate formats in your app

More license plates

Nearest to Norway