Slovakia license plate: Standard

Format, years and the law

Format

LL 999LL, for example XV 955TJ (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

2023 to today. Still issued.

Vehicle class

Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine.

Colours

Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF

Size

520 × 110 mm · every country's size

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  Standard 340×200 mm

  standard · 340 × 200 mm

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  Standard 240×150 mm

  standard · 240 × 150 mm

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  Standard 145×110 mm

  standard · 145 × 110 mm

About this plate

128/2021 Z. z., adopted 18 March 2021 and promulgated 9 April 2021, and its Čl. IV defers the whole act to 1 January 2023. Recording 2021 here would be exactly the Spanish defect the instrument-date rule exists to prevent, and it would be doubly wrong because the act's OWN commencement date was itself moved: the transitional § 143h it inserted is headed "Prechodné ustanovenie k úpravám účinným od 1. marca 2022", the fossil of an earlier plan that zákon č. 404/2021 Z. z. postponed. The pre-2023 plates were never recalled: vyhláška 480/2022 Čl. I bod 10 inserted § 41e, "Tabuľky s evidenčným číslom ... podľa predpisov účinných do 31. decembra 2022 zostávajú v platnosti", with stock issued out afterwards, so the two series genuinely run in parallel and a plate issued in, say, February 2023 may lawfully be a district plate from stock.

Region code notes

DELIBERATELY none, and this is the single most important field in this file. The first letter pair of a mark issued on or after 1 January 2023 DOES NOT DENOTE A DISTRICT: zákon č. 128/2021 Z. z. Čl. I bod 32 deleted the sentence that said it did, with effect from that date.

How numbers are issued

NOT PUBLISHED. § 124 ods. 1 prescribes the shape and no Slovak instrument states an allocation order.

Separators

The position holds the STATE ARMS (§ 35 ods.

Legal basis and sources

1. zákon č. 8/2009 Z. z. in force from 01.01.2023: § 124 ods. 1, verbatim 'Evidenčné číslo tvoria písmená a číslice. Za prvou dvojicou písmen sa za štátnym znakom Slovenskej republiky uvádzajú tri číslice a dvojica... https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/8/ZZ_2009_8_20230101.pdf
2. zákon č. 128/2021 Z. z. z 18. marca 2021: Čl. I bod 32 'V § 124 ods. 1 sa vypúšťa druhá veta.'; bod 31 'V § 123 ods. 20 sa slovo „okresov“ nahrádza slovom „údajov“.'; bod 34 deletes 'v kombinácii s označením okresu'... https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2021/128/ZZ_2021_128_20211201.pdf
3. vyhláška č. 9/2009 Z. z. in force from 01.01.2023: § 35 ods. 1 (dimensions), ods. 3 (the trailer Y), ods. 8 (EU field and the arms), ods. 9 (band geometry), ods. 10 (colours, embossing, the peripheral groove), ods.... https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/9/ZZ_2009_9_20230101.pdf
4. vyhláška č. 480/2022 Z. z. z 15. decembra 2022, announced text: Čl. I bod 7 '§ 36 sa vypúšťa.', bod 4 (the EL/EV rule), bod 5 (§ 35 ods. 10), bod 10 (§ 41e transitional), Čl. II (commencement 1 January 2023 for these... https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2022/480/ZZ_2022_480.pdf

Before and after

It replaced Standard district 2006 2006 to 2023