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Spain license plate: Temporary private

Issued today Documented since 1999. Temporary 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 private (documented since 1999), sample P4119JDB
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Format, years and the law

Format
P9999LLL, for example P4119JDB (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The leading P marks a temporary circulation permit issued to a private individual (particular), green ground, and valid only until the real plate arrives.

P
Permiso temporal (particulares) (private individual's temporary permit)

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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, and semitrailer.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #007A33
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Spain license plate, Temporary private 280×200 mm (documented since 1999)

    Temporary private 280×200 mm

    temporary · 280 × 200 mm

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

    Temporary private 100×168 mm

    temporary · 100 × 168 mm

About this plate
TEMPORARY PERMIT FOR PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS, GREEN ground, white characters, prefix P. Spain colour-codes temporary permits by HOLDER TYPE: green for individuals (this entry), red for companies (es-temporary-company-*).

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII I.C.a) permisos temporales para particulares: 'El fondo de las placas será retrorreflectante, de color verde. Los caracteres estampados en relieve irán pintados en color blanco mate'; letter P; the... https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-temporary-private-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-private-1999")'
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