Switzerland license plate: Exceptional brown

Format, years and the law

Format

LL 999999 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Canton letters and a plain number from the brown series' own range. The light-brown ground flags an Ausnahmefahrzeug, too big or too heavy for the general limits, moving on special authorisation. The colour is the entire code.

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

Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck, machine, and trailer.

Colours

Characters #000000 Background #D2B48C

Size

300 × 80 mm · every country's size

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  Exceptional brown 300×160 mm

  standard · 300 × 160 mm

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  Exceptional brown 500×110 mm

  standard · 500 × 110 mm

About this plate

THE LIGHT-BROWN EXCEPTIONAL-VEHICLE PLATE. An "Ausnahmefahrzeug" is a vehicle that exceeds the general dimension or weight limits and runs on a special authorisation. The colour is the whole identification, the string is the ordinary canton-plus-number, from its own per-colour number space.

Legal basis and sources

1. VZV Art. 82 Abs. 1 lit. c (light-brown ground, black script, for Ausnahmefahrzeuge, original 1976 text); Art. 85 Abs. 2 (Ausnahmeanhänger among the two-line plates); Art. 84 Abs. 2 https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1976/2423_2423_2423/de
2. VVV Art. 22 Abs. 3 (a special authorisation is still required for Ausnahmefahrzeuge even when running on dealer plates) https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1959/1271_1321_1317/de