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Sweden license plate: Standard 1972

Issued today 1972 to today. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, tractor, and machine, issued by Transportstyrelsen. One of 13 Sweden license plates.

Sweden license plate, Standard 1972 (1972 to today), sample KPY 578
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 999, for example KPY 578 (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
1972 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, trailer, tractor, and machine.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Sweden license plate, Standard 1972 300×110 mm (1972 to today)

    Standard 1972 300×110 mm

    standard · 300 × 110 mm

  • Sweden license plate, Standard 1972 170×150 mm (1972 to today)

    Standard 1972 170×150 mm

    standard · 170 × 150 mm

About this plate
THE SWEDISH STANDARD PLATE, first shape. Both can be true of different things, because § 67 of kungörelse 1972:605 provides that vehicles already on a county register kept their OLD numbers "till den tidpunkt när skyldighet att använda nytt registreringsnummer och ny registreringsskylt inträtt enligt kungörelsen (1971:819) om övergång till nytt bilregistreringssystem", i.e. the changeover ran on its own 1971 instrument and plausibly began issuing new numbers during 1972. The PREDECESSOR format (county letter + digits) is therefore documented but NOT authored as a series: its grammar sits in repealed instruments (kungörelsen 1937:49, vägtrafikförordningen 1951:648, vägtrafik- kungörelsen 1951:743) that no reachable database carries, and inventing a shape for it was declined.
Region code notes
NONE, deliberately and by design: the county letter was removed when this system replaced the old one. A Swedish registration number encodes no region, no year and no vehicle class.
How numbers are issued
Sequential-ish, but numbers freed by deregistration are RE-USED ("de nya numren kommer att användas parallellt med att gamla registreringsnummer återanvänds", 2019-01-16), so a letter block gives no reliable age. ONE date signal survives: "Från och med oktober månad 2015 går det att få Y eller Z som första bokstav på registreringsskylten", a Y- or Z-initial Swedish number cannot predate October 2015.
Separators
The gap between letter group and digit group is a printed GAP with no glyph (TSFS 2015:63 6 kap. 4 §: "tre bokstäver till vänster och tre siffror till höger").

Legal basis and sources

  1. 3 kap. 1 § alternative 1 ('tre bokstäver och tre siffror'); 3 kap. https://data.riksdagen.se/dokument/sfs-2019-383.html
  2. rkrattsbaser.gov.se https://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfst?bet=1972%3A599&upph=true
  3. rkrattsbaser.gov.se https://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfst?bet=1972%3A605
  4. 'Senaste gången registreringsnumren ändrades var 1972. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925055728/https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/Nyhetsarkiv/2019/nu-kommer-de-nya-reg...
  5. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20170820033303/https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/sv/Nyhetsarkiv/y-och-z-som-forsta-boksta...
  6. transportstyrelsen.se https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63k.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is se-standard-1972. 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-standard-1972")'
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