Portugal license plate: Diplomatic
Issued today Documented since 2005. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999-CD999, for example203-CD526(9 any digit)The first three digits name the mission, from a table the Foreign Ministry keeps and has never published, then the prefix gives status: CD for diplomats, CC for consular staff, FM for mission employees without diplomatic rank.
- CD
- Corpo Diplomático (diplomatic corps)
- CC
- Corpo Consular (consular corps)
- FM
- Funcionário em Missão (mission staff without diplomatic status)
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2005; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#CE1126Background#FFFFFF - About this plate
- CORPO DIPLOMÁTICO E CONSULAR. One series, because the instrument makes one rule. THE REAL GAP: the body that assigns the CD/CC/FM prefixes and their per-mission numbering is the Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, not the IMT, and no MNE instrument was reached, so no mission decode table exists here and none was invented.
- About the format
- DL 54/2005 art. 6.º n.º 2 prescribes only that the CHARACTERS, dashes and border be red on the plates of diplomatic-corps members, career consuls, non-resident administrative and technical staff of foreign missions, and bodies covered by the Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities. It composes no number.
Legal basis and sources
- DL 54/2005 Regulamento art. 6.º n.º 2, the RED characters rule and the exact list of who gets them. https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf
- pt.wikipedia.org https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matr%C3%ADculas_de_autom%C3%B3veis_em_Portugal
This plate in your app
The series id is pt-diplomatic. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Portugal's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pt \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "pt-diplomatic")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-diplomatic.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-diplomatic/template.svg
