Sweden license plate: Competition

Issued today 2016 to today. Specialty plates for car and motorcycle, issued by Transportstyrelsen. One of 13 Sweden license plates.

Sweden license plate, Competition (2016 to today), sample OOF 949

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example OOF 949 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Specialty: optional-design programs on standard serials (US state programs). Issued for car and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #DE5E1C
Size
300 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Sweden license plate, Competition 170×150 mm (2016 to today)

    Competition 170×150 mm

    specialty · 170 × 150 mm

  • Sweden license plate, Competition 520×110 mm (2016 to today)

    Competition 520×110 mm

    specialty · 520 × 110 mm

About this plate
TÄVLINGSSKYLT. Announced in the 2013-05-08 review as a new plate type and brought in with TSFS 2015:63 on 1 January 2016.
About the format
A personal combination may also be issued on the orange ground (TSFS 12 kap. 9 § last sentence, referring to 6 kap. 20 §).
Who can have one
note: Keyed to a textkod in the vägtrafikregister, which is unusually machine-legible for an eligibility rule: T71MC (enduro and trial motorcycles) and T71R, T71X, T71Y, T71Z, T71ZE, T71ZK (rally cars) take the orange plate; T71ZO takes ordinary white plates.. usage: The plate signals a dispens: "Fordon med tävlingsskylt har dispens som innebär att de endast får köras på allmänna vägar i samband med tävlingar, mellan specialsträckor i tävlingen." A competition motorcycle may additionally be ridden in connection with training or competition organised by a club registered with "Svenska motorcykel- och snöskoterförbundet eller Motorförarnas helnykterhetsförbund".

Legal basis and sources

  1. transportstyrelsen.se https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63k.pdf
  2. data.riksdagen.se https://data.riksdagen.se/dokument/sfs-2019-383.html
  3. transportstyrelsen.se https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63.pdf
  4. transportstyrelsen.se https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/vagtrafik/fordon/aga-kopa-eller-salja-fordon/registreringsskyltar/tavlingsskyltar/

This plate in your app

The series id is se-competition. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Sweden's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/se \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "se-competition")'