Spain license plate: Diplomatic CD
Issued today Documented since 1999. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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CD-999-999, for exampleCD-113-204(9 any digit)CD stands for Cuerpo Diplomático. The first digit group encodes the mission: countries are numbered in the alphabetical order of the Foreign Ministry's diplomatic list, so the number IS the embassy.
- CD
- Cuerpo Diplomático (diplomatic 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
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#CE1126 - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- CUERPO DIPLOMÁTICO, red ground, white characters.
- How numbers are issued
- Group 1 is an invariable per-mission prefix, assigned in the alphabetical order of the Foreign Ministry's most recent official diplomatic list, with prefix "-1-" reserved for the Decanato del Cuerpo Diplomático; missions that later accredit permanent ambassadors are appended by seniority. Group 2 is a serial within the mission, proposed by the mission itself.
- About the format
- The three-digit groups in the pattern are REPRESENTATIVE ONLY.
Legal basis and sources
- Anexo XVIII I.B.a).1: Cuerpo diplomático, red retroreflective ground, white matte embossed characters, letters CD + two digit groups, prefix assignment rule and the '-1-' Decanato reservation; Cuadro 1 dimensions https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf
This plate in your app
The series id is es-diplomatic-cd-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-diplomatic-cd-1999")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/es/es-diplomatic-cd-1999.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/es/es-diplomatic-cd-1999/template.svg
