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Spain license plate: Consular CC

Issued today Documented since 1999. Consular plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.

Spain license plate, Consular CC (documented since 1999), sample CC-918-302
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Format, years and the law

Format
CC-999-999, for example CC-918-302 (9 any digit)

CC stands for Cuerpo Consular. A trap for spotters, CC is also the provincial code for Cáceres, so a consular plate is told apart by its digit grouping (CC-123-456), not by its letters.

CC
Cuerpo Consular (consular corps)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
Documented since 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #007A33
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
OFICINAS CONSULARES, green ground, white characters. COLLISION WORTH FLAGGING for the parse API: "CC" is also the province contraseña for CÁCERES in Anexo XVIII II.A, so the string "CC-1234-AB" is a valid provincial car plate while "CC-12-345" is consular. Disambiguation is by group structure (4 digits + 1-2 letters vs two digit groups), not by prefix.
How numbers are issued
group 1 is the prefix of the diplomatic mission the consular office depends on; where there is no such dependency a prefix is assigned to the state itself. Group 2 follows the diplomatic rule, or the head of the consular office's proposal where the office is not attached to an accredited mission.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.B.a).3: oficinas consulares, green retroreflective ground, white matte characters, letters CC + two digit groups; prefix inherited from the parent diplomatic mission https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-consular-cc-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Spain's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/es \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "es-consular-cc-1999")'
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