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Poland license plate: Standard

Issued today 2006 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Standard (2006 to today), sample AG 55732
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example AG 55732 (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
2006 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 114 mm · every country's size
  • Poland license plate, Standard 305×214 mm (2006 to today)

    Standard 305×214 mm

    standard · 305 × 214 mm

About this plate
U. 2006 nr 70 poz. 489 § 6, TWO YEARS AFTER accession, which is exactly the kind of gap a plausible guess closes wrongly. Both remain on the road: § 2 of the 2006 amendment preserved existing plates and § 3 made the swap optional and number-preserving, so flag-band plates are lawful indefinitely and the two series are genuinely parallel. U. 2017 poz.
How the region is encoded
§ 30 ust. 2 pkt 1: the first letter is the voivodeship, the second, or second and third, the powiat, and § 31 ust. 2 puts the whole table inside the instrument as załącznik nr 13. Unlike Germany's, the list needs no Bundesanzeiger hunt, so the decode file carries all 380 rows and all 689 prefixes from the primary.
How numbers are issued
§ 30 ust. 2 pkt 1. For a powiat whose wyróżnik is ONE letter (prefix two characters) the vehicle wyróżnik is five characters, in this exhaustion order: five digits 00001-99999; four digits 0001-9999 and a letter; three digits 001-999 and two letters; a digit 1-9, a letter and three digits 001-999; a digit 1-9, two letters and two digits 01-99. For a powiat whose wyróżnik is TWO letters (prefix three characters) it is four or five: a letter and three digits; two digits and two letters; a digit, a letter and two digits; two digits, a letter and a digit; a digit, two letters and a digit; two letters and two digits; then five digits; four digits and a letter; three digits and two letters. The list is ordered "tworzony kolejno", each layout is reached only when the previous is exhausted, which makes the layout an ORDINAL age signal within a powiat. The regulation publishes no dates against it.
Separators
The printed gap between prefix and serial is the LEGALISATION-STICKER WELL, not a glyph: załącznik nr 12 pkt 2.6 lit. a puts the 18 x 30 mm laser-marked slot "symetrycznie między ostatnim znakiem wyróżnika województwa lub powiatu a pierwszym znakiem wyróżnika pojazdu".

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 27 ust. 2 (black on white), § 28 (EU field, eagle), § 30 ust. 1-2 pkt 1 (alphabet and every layout), § 31 (vehicle-wyróżnik exclusions, the annex, the second-letter rule), § 33 (mounting); załącznik nr 12 Rysunek 1... https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1709/text/O/D20241709.pdf
  2. Dz. U. 2006 nr 70 poz. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2006/489/text/O/D20060489.pdf
  3. Prawo o ruchu drogowym art. 73 ust. 1, 1a, 1b, 1d and art. 76 ust. 1, the enabling frame and the number-retention rule. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1251/text/O/D20241251.pdf

Before and after

Poland license plate, Standard pre-EU (2000 to 2006) It replaced Standard pre-EU 2000 to 2006

This plate in your app

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