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Poland license plate: Standard reduced

Issued today 2018 to today. Standard plates for car and van, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Standard reduced (2018 to today), sample Y 780
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Format, years and the law

Format
L 999, for example Y 780 (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
2018 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
305 × 114 mm · every country's size
About this plate
U. 2017 poz. 2355 § 57 pkt 2, four provisions of which were held back to 1 July 2018 while the rest of the instrument began on 1 January. Excluded from the type by § 26 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. b: motorcycles, agricultural tractors, slow vehicles in tourist road-trains, and "samochodowy inny". § 30 ust. 3 pairs it with the reduced TEMPORARY plate: an authority may issue both bearing the same number.
Region code notes
DELIBERATELY none, and this is the fact that makes the series worth separating: the reduced plate carries only the VOIVODESHIP letter, so a parse API can resolve it to one of sixteen voivodeships (or, where the voivodeship has two letters, to one voivodeship exactly) and can never resolve it to a powiat.
How numbers are issued
§ 30 ust. 2 pkt 2, and it is the ONE Polish civil plate with NO POWIAT CODE AT ALL: "dla powiatów z wyróżnikiem jednoliterowym i dwuliterowym pierwsza litera stanowi wyróżnik województwa, następne cyfry lub cyfry i litera, lub litery stanowią wyróżnik pojazdu", one voivodeship letter and three characters, in the exhaustion order 999, 99L, 9L9, L99, 9LL, LL9, L9L. The powiat is unrecoverable from the string, by design, because there is no room for it.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 26 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. b, § 27 ust. 3, § 30 ust. 2 pkt 2 and ust. 3; załącznik nr 12 Rysunek 1 (305 x 114 mm). https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1709/text/O/D20241709.pdf
  2. Dz. U. 2017 poz. 2355 introduced the type (§ 27 ust. 1 pkt 1 lit. b, § 31 ust. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2017/2355/text/O/D20172355.pdf

This plate in your app

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