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Poland license plate: Standard pre-EU

Retired 2000 to 2006. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Standard pre-EU (2000 to 2006), sample XY 55456
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example XY 55456 (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 2006. No longer 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
About this plate
U. 1999 nr 59 poz. U. 2006 nr 70 poz. 489 § 6.
Region code notes
Codes added later (for example the second voivodeship letters, and the extra powiat codes issued as pools ran out) cannot appear on a plate from this period, and codes withdrawn since are absent from the table.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Dz. U. 1999 nr 59 poz. 632: § 21 ust. 2 pkt 1 (the 2000 grammar), § 24 (the wyróżniki annex), § 39 (the pre-reform code tables and the stock rule), § 41 ('Do dnia 30 kwietnia 2000 r. organ rejestrujący wydaje tablice... https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/1999/632/text/O/D19990632.pdf
  2. Dz. U. 2002 nr 133 poz. 1123: § 18 ust. 3 (black on white), § 19 ust. 1 (the Polish-flag band), § 21 ust. 2 pkt 1 (the widened grammar), § 22 ust. 1 (the first appearance of the B/D/I/O/Z exclusion). In force 21... https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2002/1123/text/O/D20021123.pdf
  3. Dz. U. 2006 nr 70 poz. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2006/489/text/O/D20060489.pdf

Before and after

Poland license plate, Standard pre-2000 (1993 to 2000) It replaced Standard pre-2000 1993 to 2000 Poland license plate, Standard (2006 to today) Replaced by Standard 2006 to today

This plate in your app

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