Slovakia license plate: Limited F

Issued today Documented since 2009. Temporary plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministerstvo vnútra Slovenskej republiky. One of 21 Slovakia license plates.

Slovakia license plate, Limited F (documented since 2009), sample BHF826

Format, years and the law

Format
LLF999, for example BHF826 (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
Documented since 2009; 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, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #009933 Background #FFFFFF
Size
240 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE F PLATE, green on white, for a "jednotlivé vozidlo s obmedzenou prevádzkou", a single vehicle approved for restricted operation, with a printed validity. That difference is also a decode difference, which is the practical reason to keep them apart.

Legal basis and sources

  1. slov-lex.sk https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/8/ZZ_2009_8_20230101.pdf
  2. § 36 ods. 1 písm. f). https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/9/ZZ_2009_9_20220801.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is sk-limited-f. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Slovakia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sk \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "sk-limited-f")'