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Switzerland license plate: Consular CC

Issued today Documented since 1977. Consular plates for car, van, and motorcycle, issued by Bundesamt für Strassen (ASTRA) / kantonale Strassenverkehrsämter. One of 17 Switzerland license plates.

Switzerland license plate, Consular CC (documented since 1977)
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Format, years and the law

Format
CC LL 999-999 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

CC is the corps consulaire, then the canton and two number groups: the vehicle's number inside the post, and the federal code for the sending country. Beware lookalikes of a legal kind: an honorary consul may wear a loose CC badge on an ordinary plate.

CC
Corps consulaire (consular corps)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1977; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Consular: consular corps where distinct from diplomatic. Issued for car, van, and motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
300 × 80 mm · every country's size
  • Switzerland license plate, Consular CC 500×110 mm (documented since 1977)

    Consular CC 500×110 mm

    consular · 500 × 110 mm

  • Switzerland license plate, Consular CC 300×160 mm (documented since 1977)

    Consular CC 300×160 mm

    consular · 300 × 160 mm

About this plate
THE CC SERIES, career consular posts and career consular officers. Its own series rather than a variant of CD because the printed sign is part of the string. The one asymmetry worth recording: Art. 86 Abs. 4 bans separate (loose) "CD" and "AT" signs absolutely, but permits a separate "CC" sign for at most one car of each HONORARY head of post who has been granted the exequatur, with the permission noted in the Fahrzeugausweis. So a Swiss "CC" badge on a car is not necessarily a CC PLATE, which is a distinction an image pipeline will meet before a string parser does.

Legal basis and sources

  1. VZV Art. 86 Abs. 2 ('Das Zeichen «CC» ist für Dienstwagen der von einem Berufsbeamten geleiteten konsularischen Posten und für Motorfahrzeuge von Berufskonsularbeamten bestimmt'); Art. 86 Abs. 4 (separate CC signs... https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1976/2423_2423_2423/de

This plate in your app

The series id is ch-consular-cc. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Switzerland's series:

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