# Slovakia license plate: Standard district 1997

> The Slovakia standard district 1997 license plate: format LL-999LL, for example PI-176WV, 1997 to 2004. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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![Slovakia license plate, Standard district 1997 (1997 to 2004)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/sk/sk-standard-district-1997/slovakia-license-plate-standard-district-1997.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL-999LL` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1997–2004 |
| Class | standard |
| Issued for | car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, tractor, machine |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Other sizes | 340 × 200 mm; 240 × 150 mm: motorcycles, motor tricycles and their trailers, and zvláštne motorové vozidlá — § 46 ods. 1 vyhlášky 90/1997 |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #000000 |
| 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-district-1997` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-district-1997) |

Sources:

- [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 table), § 45 (EE and ZZ, and the CD/CC plates), § 46 (dimensions, colours, the arms with SK beneath, the identification foil, mounting).](https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/1997/90/ZZ_1997_90_19970401.pdf)
- [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)
- [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/)

## 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.

## Before and after

| Relation | Series | Years |
|---|---|---|
| It replaced | [SPZ Czechoslovak](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/spz-czechoslovak) | 1984 to 1997 |
| Replaced by | [Standard district 2004](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-district-2004) | 2004 to 2006 |

## Other standard plates here

- [Standard](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/slovakia/standard-2023) (2023 to today)
- [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)
- [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-district-1997.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/slovakia?series=sk-standard-district-1997
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sk` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "sk-standard-district-1997"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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