Ukraine license plate: Non-format

Issued today 2015 to today. Standard plates for car and van, issued by Міністерство внутрішніх справ України / Головний сервісний центр МВС (ГСЦ МВС). One of 37 Ukraine license plates.

Ukraine license plate, Non-format (2015 to today), sample PK 9221 OE

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 9999 LL, for example PK 9221 OE (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The squarer plate for American- and Japanese-market cars reads exactly like the long one: region pair, four digits, series pair. Nothing in the serial says non-format, only the shape does.

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

Years issued
2015 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE SHORT-AND-TALL PLATE, for vehicles whose plate recess is not the 520 x 112 European oblong, American and Japanese-market cars, in practice. Ukraine solves that case with a distinct SUBTYPE and a distinct geometry rather than with a tolerance, and it is the ONLY Ukrainian plate whose digits and letters have different heights (58 / 40 mm).

Legal basis and sources

  1. Додаток 1 підтип 1-3-1 «Знаки для автомобілів із неформатним місцем закріплення номерного знака»; Додаток 2 Таблиця 1 (300 x 150 mm); Додаток 3 (digits 58 mm, letters 40 mm, the only subtype where the two heights... https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0353-21

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ua-nonformat-2015. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Ukraine's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/ua \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "ua-nonformat-2015")'