Poland license plate: Individual

Issued today 2000 to today. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Individual (2000 to today), sample P7 ERODJ

Format, years and the law

Format
L9 LLLLL, for example P7 ERODJ (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
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 114 mm · every country's size
  • Poland license plate, Individual 305×214 mm (2000 to today)

    Individual 305×214 mm

    personalized · 305 × 214 mm

About this plate
INDIVIDUAL PLATES, "tablice indywidualne", the Polish personalised regime, restricted by § 25 pkt 2 to POJAZDY SAMOCHODOWE, so no motorcycle, moped or trailer may carry one. U. 2025 poz. 939 § 1 pkt 3), the only exception to the § 31 ust. U. 1999 nr 59 poz. 632 § 49; individual plates existed before that (Dz. U. 1998 nr 57 poz. 365 § 20 ust.
Region code notes
There is no powiat information on an individual plate and a parse API must not invent any.
How numbers are issued
§ 30 ust. 2 pkt 4, verbatim: "litera i cyfra stanowią wyróżnik województwa, zaś kolejne litery w liczbie od 3 do 5 stanowią wyróżnik indywidualny pojazdu, w którym nie więcej niż dwie ostatnie litery można zastąpić cyframi." A digit followed by a letter inside the personal part is not lawful.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 25 pkt 2, § 27 ust. 4, § 30 ust. 2 pkt 4, § 31 ust. 1 (the carve-out), § 32 (uniqueness, owner's choice, the decency clause). https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1709/text/O/D20241709.pdf
  2. Dz. U. 2025 poz. 939 § 1 pkt 2 and pkt 3: the second-letter overflow rule of § 31 ust. 3 is disapplied to individual plates, and § 32 ust. 2 is rewritten so that the owner 'może wskazać literę wyróżnika województwa, z... https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2025/939/text/O/D20250939.pdf
  3. Dz. U. 1999 nr 59 poz. 632 § 21 ust. 2 pkt 4 and § 22-23, commenced 1 May 2000 by § 49. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/1999/632/text/O/D19990632.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is pl-individual. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Poland's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "pl-individual")'