# Slovakia license plate: Standard

> The Slovakia standard license plate: format LL 999LL, for example XV 955TJ, 2023 to today. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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Part of [Slovakia license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia) (21 registration series).

![Slovakia license plate, Standard (2023 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sk/sk-standard-2023/slovakia-license-plate-standard.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL 999LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 2023 → today |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, machine |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 340 × 200 mm: two-line, same categories — § 35 ods. 1 písm. a); 240 × 150 mm: L3e, L4e, L5e, T, C, PS, LS and multi-purpose L7e quadricycles — § 35 ods. 1 písm. b); also the rear plate where a mounting exemption has been granted (vyhláška 480/2022 Čl. I bod 2); 145 × 110 mm: L1e, L2e, L6e — § 35 ods. 1 písm. c) |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000; band #003399 on the left; border #000000 |
| 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 | `sk-standard-2023` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-2023) |

Sources:

- [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 písmen.' — note the ABSENCE of the district sentence. Also § 116 ods. 14, § 123 ods. 3, 8, 11, 16-18.](https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/8/ZZ_2009_8_20230101.pdf)
- [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' from § 124 ods. 3; bod 11 inserts § 116 ods. 14; bod 29 extends § 123 ods. 8; Čl. IV 'Tento zákon nadobúda účinnosť 1. januára 2023.'](https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2021/128/ZZ_2021_128_20211201.pdf)
- [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. 11-16 (mounting). NOTE the absence of § 36.](https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/9/ZZ_2009_9_20230101.pdf)
- [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 items).](https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2022/480/ZZ_2022_480.pdf)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [Standard district 2006](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-district-2006) | 2006 to 2023 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard district 2006](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-district-2006) (2006 to 2023)
- [Standard district 2004](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-district-2004) (2004 to 2006)
- [Standard district 1997](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-district-1997) (1997 to 2004)
- [SPZ Czechoslovak](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/spz-czechoslovak) (1984 to 1997)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sk/sk-standard-2023.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/slovakia?series=sk-standard-2023
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sk` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "sk-standard-2023"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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