Spain license plate: Diplomatic staff TA

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.

Spain license plate, Diplomatic staff TA (documented since 1999), sample TA-947-451

Format, years and the law

Format
TA-999-999, for example TA-947-451 (9 any digit)

TA stands for personal Técnico-Administrativo, the embassy's technical and administrative staff, who get yellow plates where the diplomats' are red.

TA
Personal técnico-administrativo (technical-administrative staff)

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
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
PERSONAL TÉCNICO-ADMINISTRATIVO of missions, international organisations and consular offices, yellow ground, black characters. RGV transitional provision three preserved existing matrícula turística permits held by this staff until their validity expired, which is the documented bridge from the pre-1999 arrangement.
How numbers are issued
group 1 identifies the diplomatic mission, international organisation or consular office; group 2 is a serial among that body's technical-administrative staff, on its proposal

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.B.a).4: personal técnico-administrativo, yellow retroreflective ground, black matte characters, letters TA + two digit groups https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-diplomatic-staff-ta-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-staff-ta-1999")'