Slovenia license plate: Standard 2011

Issued today 2011 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Ministrstvo za infrastrukturo Republike Slovenije. One of 16 Slovenia license plates.

Slovenia license plate, Standard 2011 (2011 to today), sample MS 726-CP

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999-LL, for example MS 726-CP (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
2011 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Slovenia license plate, Standard 2011 340×220 mm (2011 to today)

    Standard 2011 340×220 mm

    standard · 340 × 220 mm

About this plate
THE CURRENT SLOVENIAN PLATE. Its period start is a named calendar date in the instrument's own final article, which is the best kind of period evidence and needs no interpretation. Note what did NOT change in 2011: the white ground, the green edge, the municipal arms and the EU field all come from the 2006 instrument, and the arms and green edge go back to 1992.
How the region is encoded
TWO LEVELS. The two letters give one of eleven registration areas (29. člen (1)-(2), Priloga IV). The SHIELD gives the upravna enota inside that area, 28. člen (1), "grb občine, kjer je sedež upravne enote v tem registracijskem območju", of which there are fifty-eight. A text-only parse resolves the first level and must report the second as unknown rather than as absent.
How numbers are issued
NOT PUBLISHED. The pravilnik enumerates the five arrangements but says nothing about the order in which they are exhausted, so a Slovenian plate CANNOT be dated from its serial by anything in this file.
Separators
TWO POSITIONS, DIFFERENT IN KIND. The gap after the area code holds the MUNICIPAL ARMS (28. člen (1)) and is written as an optional emitted space. The mark's own separator is a hyphen the regulation names, "Za prvim delom zaporedja črk ali številk je pomišljaj", and is therefore written as a hyphen LITERAL, not as a class: unlike Croatia's ordinary plate, Slovenia's separator has a statutory basis.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Uradni list RS, št. 48/2011 z dne 24. 6. 2011 to 27. člen (plate types and forms), 28. člen (the plate), 29. člen (areas), 30. člen (the mark and its five arrangements), 32.-33. člen (material, security, plate... https://www.uradni-list.si/glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/2011-01-2292
  2. PRILOGA VI, risbe št. 1-4, the specimen 'LJ [grb] 497-AR' at 520x120, 340x220, 180x180 and 150x110 mm, and the green edge https://www.uradni-list.si/files/RS_-2011-048-02292-OB~P006-0000.PDF
  3. PRILOGA IV, the eleven area codes https://www.uradni-list.si/files/RS_-2011-048-02292-OB~P004-0000.PDF

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is si-standard-2011. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Slovenia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/si \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "si-standard-2011")'