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Sweden license plate: Diplomatic

Issued today 1988 to today. Diplomatic plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Transportstyrelsen. One of 13 Sweden license plates.

Sweden license plate, Diplomatic (1988 to today), sample DU 364H
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 999L, for example DU 364H (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
1988 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #469BD1
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Sweden license plate, Diplomatic 170×150 mm (1988 to today)

    Diplomatic 170×150 mm

    diplomatic · 170 × 150 mm

  • Sweden license plate, Diplomatic 300×110 mm (1988 to today)

    Diplomatic 300×110 mm

    diplomatic · 300 × 110 mm

About this plate
SECURITY EXEMPTION worth recording for a claims model: 15 kap. 13 § lets Säkerhetspolisen exempt a vehicle from the beskickningsskylt requirement "om det finns särskilda skäl som gäller säkerheten", so absence of a blue plate does not disprove diplomatic ownership.
Region code notes
128 landskoder + 10 kategorikoder, both closed and primary.
Who the plate belongs to
11 kap. 2 § förordningen (2019:383): the character composition is fixed by Regeringskansliet "med hänsyn till det berörda landet och den ställning som den som äger eller använder fordonet har. Om dessa förhållanden ändras, ska fordonet tilldelas nya skyltar." The plate therefore tracks the HOLDER'S STATUS, not the vehicle: a promotion or a posting change re-plates the same car.

Legal basis and sources

  1. 12 kap. 1 a § (definitions of landskod and kategorikod, added by TSFS 2025:33), 12 kap. 2 § (six characters, black on light blue reflective, black frame), 12 kap. 3 § (the 2+3+1 composition, one-row and two-row); 6 kap. https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63k.pdf
  2. förordning (1988:964) om skyltar för beskickningsfordon 2 §, verbatim: 'Skyltar för beskickningsfordon upptar sex tecken som utgörs av bokstäver och siffror. https://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfst?bet=1988%3A964&upph=true
  3. rkrattsbaser.gov.se https://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfsr?bet=1988%3A964&upph=true
  4. 11 kap. 1-5 §: who gets the plates (immunity/privileges), Utrikesdepartementet decides and supplies them, new plates when status changes, ordinary plates if the vehicle becomes taxable; 15 kap. https://data.riksdagen.se/dokument/sfs-2019-383.html
  5. transportstyrelsen.se https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/vagtrafik/fordon/aga-kopa-eller-salja-fordon/registreringsskyltar/skylt-for-besk...
  6. transportstyrelsen.se https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/globalassets/global/bilder/vag/fordon/diplomat.png

This plate in your app

The series id is se-diplomatic. 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-diplomatic")'
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