Spain license plate: Moped

Issued today Documented since 1999. Moped plates for moped and quadricycle, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.

Spain license plate, Moped (documented since 1999), sample C3057GHZ

Format, years and the law

Format
C9999LLL, for example C3057GHZ (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The leading C stands for Ciclomotor, mopeds carry their own yellow plate with their own letter.

C
Ciclomotor (moped)

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
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped and quadricycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
Size
100 × 168 mm · every country's size
  • Spain license plate, Moped 140×120 mm (documented since 1999)

    Moped 140×120 mm

    moped · 140 × 120 mm

  • Spain license plate, Moped 210×85 mm (documented since 1999)

    Moped 210×85 mm

    moped · 210 × 85 mm

  • Spain license plate, Moped 520×110 mm (documented since 1999)

    Moped 520×110 mm

    moped · 520 × 110 mm

About this plate
CICLOMOTORES Y CICLOS DE MOTOR, yellow ground, black characters. RGV transitional provision required mopeds bought before the RGV and registered only with municipalities to be brought onto the national register within six months of entry into force.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.A.d) ciclomotores: yellow retroreflective ground, black matte characters, letter C + 4 digits + 3 letters; Cuadro 1 ciclomotores/cuatriciclos rows https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf
  2. original text: the explicit THREE-ROW layout for ciclomotores https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1999-1826

This plate in your app

The series id is es-moped-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-moped-1999")'