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Slovakia license plate: Standard district 1997

Retired 1997 to 2004. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministerstvo vnútra Slovenskej republiky. One of 21 Slovakia license plates.

Slovakia license plate, Standard district 1997 (1997 to 2004), sample PI-176WV
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL-999LL, for example PI-176WV (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
1997 to 2004. No longer 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
  • Slovakia license plate, Standard district 1997 340×200 mm (1997 to 2004)

    Standard district 1997 340×200 mm

    standard · 340 × 200 mm

  • Slovakia license plate, Standard district 1997 240×150 mm (1997 to 2004)

    Standard district 1997 240×150 mm

    standard · 240 × 150 mm

About this plate
Note the statute behind it (zákon 315/1996) took effect a month earlier, on 1 March 1997, and delegated the format entirely, § 94 ods. 10, "Podrobnosti o evidenčnom čísle, vyhotovení, tvare a rozmeroch tabuľky s evidenčným číslom ... ustanoví všeobecne záväzný právny predpis", so the ENABLING date and the FORMAT date differ by a month and this file records the latter. § 94 ods. 11 of the same statute is worth knowing about: it empowers the ministry to order a MASS reassignment or exchange of plates, which is the machinery behind the 1997 changeover.
Region code notes
The decode table's rows come from the 2022 version of the successor regulation. The 1997 table (§ 44 ods. 4 vyhlášky 90/1997) is the SAME table with FEWER codes per district, 'BB, BC' where 2022 has 'BB, BC, BK', 'ZA, ZI' where 2022 has 'ZA, ZI, ZL'. Codes were added over time and the instruments never dated the additions, so a code decoded against the 2022 list may not have existed in 1997.

Legal basis and sources

  1. vyhláška MV SR č. 90/1997 Z. z., ktorou sa vykonávajú niektoré ustanovenia zákona NR SR o premávke na pozemných komunikáciách, in force from 1 April 1997: § 43, § 44 ods. 1-2 (the format), § 44 ods. 4 (the district... https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/1997/90/ZZ_1997_90_19970401.pdf
  2. zákon NR SR č. 315/1996 Z. z. o premávke na pozemných komunikáciách: § 94 (Evidenčné číslo) and its ods. 10 delegating the format to a vyhláška, § 95 (osobitné), § 96 (zvláštne). In force from 1 March 1997. https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/1996/315/ZZ_1996_315_19970301.pdf
  3. official version history: vyhláška 90/1997 ran 01.04.1997 - 30.04.2004, replaced by 225/2004 the day Slovakia joined the EU. https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/SK/ZZ/1997/90/

Before and after

Slovakia license plate, SPZ Czechoslovak (1984 to 1997) It replaced SPZ Czechoslovak 1984 to 1997 Slovakia license plate, Standard district 2004 (2004 to 2006) Replaced by Standard district 2004 2004 to 2006

This plate in your app

The series id is sk-standard-district-1997. 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-standard-district-1997")'
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