Spain license plate: Temporary company registered

Issued today Documented since 1999. Dealer plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, and semitrailer, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.

Spain license plate, Temporary company registered (documented since 1999), sample V3046LPR

Format, years and the law

Format
V9999LLL, for example V3046LPR (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The leading V marks a company's temporary permit for a vehicle that already holds a registration, same red plate, different paperwork behind it.

V
Permiso temporal de empresa (vehículo matriculado) (company permit, registered 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
Dealer: trade/garage plates bound to a business, not a vehicle. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, and semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #CE1126
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Spain license plate, Temporary company registered 280×200 mm (documented since 1999)

    Temporary company registered 280×200 mm

    dealer · 280 × 200 mm

  • Spain license plate, Temporary company registered 100×168 mm (documented since 1999)

    Temporary company registered 100×168 mm

    dealer · 100 × 168 mm

About this plate
TEMPORARY PERMIT FOR COMPANIES, ALREADY-REGISTERED VEHICLES, prefix V. Identical design to the S series; the prefix letter is the only difference and it encodes whether the vehicle already holds a registration. A parse API must keep them apart, which is why they are two series with distinct notes rather than one entry with an alternation.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.C.b): '...o la letra V, para los matriculados', same red design, different prefix https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-temporary-company-registered-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-temporary-company-registered-1999")'