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Spain license plate: Special vehicles

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

Spain license plate, Special vehicles (documented since 1999), sample E3684WGG
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Format, years and the law

Format
E9999LLL, for example E3684WGG (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The leading E stands for vehículo Especial, self-propelled farm and works machinery gets its own letter and a white-on-red scheme.

E
Vehículo especial (special vehicle)

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
Agricultural: farm vehicles/equipment where separately serialized. Issued for tractor and machine.
Colours
Characters #CE1126 Background #FFFFFF
Size
340 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Spain license plate, Special vehicles 280×200 mm (documented since 1999)

    Special vehicles 280×200 mm

    agricultural · 280 × 200 mm

About this plate
VEHÍCULOS ESPECIALES (agricultural and works/services machinery). The only Spanish series with RED characters on white, and notably NOT 520 mm wide, the long form is 340 x 110. Flagged as a vocabulary gap.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.A.b) vehículos especiales: white ground, red matte characters, letter E + 4 digits + 3 letters; Cuadro 1: 340x110 larga / 280x200 alta, characters 30x60/6 https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf
  2. original text, same wording minus the CH/LL inciso; in force 26-07-1999 https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-1999-1826

This plate in your app

The series id is es-special-vehicles-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-special-vehicles-1999")'
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