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Spain license plate: Temporary company unregistered

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 unregistered (documented since 1999), sample S6972XFF
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Format, years and the law

Format
S9999LLL, for example S6972XFF (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The leading S marks a company's temporary permit for a vehicle that has never been registered, the red plate a factory or dealer uses to move brand-new stock.

S
Permiso temporal de empresa (vehículo sin matricular) (company permit, unregistered 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 unregistered 280×200 mm (documented since 1999)

    Temporary company unregistered 280×200 mm

    dealer · 280 × 200 mm

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

    Temporary company unregistered 100×168 mm

    dealer · 100 × 168 mm

About this plate
TEMPORARY PERMIT FOR COMPANIES, UNREGISTERED VEHICLES, prefix S. This is Spain's functional dealer/trade plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.C.b): red ground, white matte characters, 'la letra S, para los vehículos no matriculados'; white expiry band with red adhesive characters; Cuadro 3 band widths 30/20 mm 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-unregistered-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-unregistered-1999")'
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