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Poland license plate: Military

Issued today Documented since 2023. Military plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Military (documented since 2023), sample UR 64976
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Format, years and the law

Format
UL 99999, for example UR 64976 (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 2023; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
U. 2023 poz. 1776, 4 September 2023), not the date the U system began, which is certainly older: the chain of MON instruments runs back through Dz. U. 2012 poz. 623, Dz. U. 2005 nr 84 poz. 723 and Dz. U. 1999 nr 84 poz.
Region code notes
U is not a voivodeship letter, it is one of the two letters (with H) that never appear in column 4 of załącznik nr 13, which is exactly what makes the prefix unambiguous. Note § 6 ust. 1-2 however: unmarked vehicles of the Żandarmeria Wojskowa, the special forces, the cyberspace-defence troops and certain protected-installation units may be registered under an ORDINARY voivodeship+powiat number instead, deliberately indistinguishable from a civil plate. A parse API cannot detect those and its confidence model should know they exist.
How numbers are issued
§ 6 ust. 3: "wyróżnika Sił Zbrojnych, którym jest wielka litera U umieszczana jako pierwsza" plus a vehicle wyróżnik of one letter and then, by plate type, a five-digit number 00001-99999 for car plates and for numbers painted directly on the vehicle, a four-digit number 0001-9999 for motorcycle plates, or a four-digit number followed by the FIXED LETTER T for a tracked vehicle.

Legal basis and sources

  1. rozporządzenie MON z 30 sierpnia 2023 r. w sprawie rejestracji pojazdów Sił Zbrojnych RP oraz pojazdów należących do obcych sił zbrojnych: § 6 (the U frame and the three vehicle-wyróżnik shapes), § 6 ust. 1-2 (the... https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2023/1776/text/O/D20231776.pdf
  2. Prawo o ruchu drogowym art. 76 ust. 2, the delegation to the Minister of National Defence. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1251/text/O/D20241251.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is pl-military. 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-military")'
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