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Poland license plate: Temporary

Issued today 2000 to today. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, and trailer, issued by Ministerstwo Infrastruktury. One of 17 Poland license plates.

Poland license plate, Temporary (2000 to today), sample X3 7379
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Format, years and the law

Format
L9 9999, for example X3 7379 (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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #CC0000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 114 mm · every country's size
  • Poland license plate, Temporary 305×214 mm (2000 to today)

    Temporary 305×214 mm

    temporary · 305 × 214 mm

  • Poland license plate, Temporary 190×150 mm (2000 to today)

    Temporary 190×150 mm

    temporary · 190 × 150 mm

  • Poland license plate, Temporary 140×114 mm (2000 to today)

    Temporary 140×114 mm

    temporary · 140 × 114 mm

  • Poland license plate, Temporary 305×114 mm (2000 to today)

    Temporary 305×114 mm

    temporary · 305 × 114 mm

About this plate
THE TEMPORARY PLATE, and THE REASON POLAND HAS NO EXPORT PLATE: taking a vehicle permanently out of the country is one of the temporary plate's own statutory purposes and has been since 1993. The 2024 instrument added a REDUCED temporary plate (305 x 114 mm) that the 2022 text lacked, pairable under § 30 ust. 3 with a reduced ordinary plate bearing the same number. Validity is not in this instrument: it runs from art. 74 of the ustawa, and the old fourteen-day cap of the 1993 rules no longer applies.
How numbers are issued
§ 30 ust. 2 pkt 6, verbatim: "litera i cyfra stanowią wyróżnik województwa, zaś cztery cyfry w przedziale od 0001 do 9999 stanowią wyróżnik pojazdu, który po wyczerpaniu wskazanej pojemności tworzy się w układzie trzy cyfry w przedziale od 001 do 999 i litera." Six characters, letter+digit prefix from column 6 of załącznik nr 13, no powiat component.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 25 pkt 4, § 27 ust. 9 pkt 1, § 28 ust. 5-6, § 30 ust. 2 pkt 6 and ust. 3; załącznik nr 12 Rysunki 21-24. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/2024/1709/text/O/D20241709.pdf
  2. Dz. U. 1999 nr 59 poz. 632 § 18 ust. 6 and § 21 ust. 2 pkt 6, commenced 1 May 2000 by § 49. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/1999/632/text/O/D19990632.pdf
  3. Dz. U. 1993 nr 37 poz. 164 § 13 ust. 3: the temporary plate's statutory purposes already included 'umożliwienia wyjazdu lub wywozu tych pojazdów za granicę', which is why Poland has no export series. https://api.sejm.gov.pl/eli/acts/DU/1993/164/text/O/D19930164.pdf

This plate in your app

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