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.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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L9 LLLLL, for exampleP7 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
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Characters
#000000Background#FFFFFF - Size
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520 × 114 mm · every country's size
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Individual 305×214 mm
personalized · 305 × 214 mm
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- 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
- § 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
- 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
- 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")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pl/pl-individual.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pl/pl-individual/template.svg