# Portugal license plate: National 2005

> The Portugal national 2005 license plate: format 99-LL-99, for example 81-NA-18, 2005 to 2020. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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Part of [Portugal license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal) (13 registration series).

![Portugal license plate, National 2005 (2005 to 2020)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-national-2005/portugal-license-plate-national-2005.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `99-LL-99` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2005–2020 |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, tricycle, quadricycle |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 340 × 220 mm: Modelo II — automóveis, rear only, two rows |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `pt-national-2005` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-2005) |

The strip-era Portuguese standard: blue Euro-band left, first- registration date strip right — the plate most associated with Portugal's roads.

Letters in the middle is itself the decode: 00-AA-00 can only have been issued between 2005 and 2020. The serial is sequential and says nothing else; the yellow strip still tells the truth, carrying the month and year of first registration.

Sources:

- [THE ENABLING INSTRUMENT: DL 54/2005 art. 3.º n.º 2 c) — '00-AA-00' for numbers issued from the end of the use of the preceding model; preamble states the reason: 'As actuais séries de matrícula dos automóveis encontram-se praticamente esgotadas'. Art. 5.º n.º 1 c) + n.os 3-4: white retroreflective ground, black characters, plus the year/month indication at the right-hand end.](https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Portugal)
- [Decreto-Lei n.º 112/2009, de 18 de maio, as carried by the Procuradoria-Geral Distrital de Lisboa database: the amendment that moves the plastic-motorcycle-plate date from 01-01-2006 (DL 106/2006) to 01-01-2007, and that inserts the electronic-identification device into the Regulamento.](https://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_articulado.php?nid=1103&tabela=leis)

## About this plate

THE 2005-2020 WINDOW. DL 54/2005 is the enabling instrument and its own dates are known precisely, published 03-03-2005, no entry-into-force clause of its own, so the general 5-day vacatio of Lei n.º 74/98 puts it in force on 08-03-2005 (DERIVED from the default rule, not stated; flagged) except for Regulamento arts. 11.º, 15.º and 16.º, which its art. 6.º delays to 01-01-2006. NOT USED AS THE SERIES START, on the instrument-date rule.

## How numbers are issued

sequential and non-geographic; the letter pair advances as the digit groups roll

## Separators

The hyphen IS statutory in this window: art. 3.º n.º 1, verbatim, "sendo os grupos separados entre si por traços", and the Anexo IV Modelo I drawing draws the glyph between groups. Contrast the 2020 model, where the clause was deleted. The 2020 note’s photograph question remains open for ITS model.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [National 1992](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-1992) | 1992 to 2005 |
| Replaced by | [National 2020](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-2020) | 2020 to today |

## Other standard plates here

- [National 2020](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-2020) (2020 to today)
- [National 1992](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-1992) (1992 to 2005)
- [National 1937](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/portugal/national-1937) (1937 to 1992)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/pt/pt-national-2005.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/portugal?series=pt-national-2005
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/pt` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "pt-national-2005"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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