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Portugal license plate: Temporary import

Issued today Documented since 2005. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, issued by Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes, I. P. (IMT). One of 13 Portugal license plates.

Portugal license plate, Temporary import (documented since 2005), sample 99-66-FL
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Format, years and the law

Format
99-99-LL, for example 99-66-FL (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #003399 Background #FFFFFF
About this plate
MATRÍCULA PROVISÓRIA for temporarily imported vehicles, blue characters. The entry earns its place because the blue-character rule is otherwise unrecorded anywhere machine-readable, and because a parse API that meets a blue Portuguese plate should be able to name it.
About the format
DL 54/2005 establishes this plate only by penalising its absence: art. 2.º n.º 1 a) v) fines "Circulação de automóvel ou de reboque importado temporariamente com chapa de matrícula provisória não possuindo caracteres, traço e rebordo periférico de cor azul".

Legal basis and sources

  1. DL 54/2005 art. 2.º n.º 1 a) v): the temporarily-imported vehicle's provisional plate must carry BLUE characters, dashes and peripheral border. https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2005/03/044a00/18921897.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is pt-temporary-import. 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-temporary-import")'
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