Ukraine license plate: Standard 2004

Retired 2004 to 2015. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, issued by Міністерство внутрішніх справ України / Головний сервісний центр МВС (ГСЦ МВС). One of 37 Ukraine license plates.

Ukraine license plate, Standard 2004 (2004 to 2015), sample AA 1234 BB

Format, years and the law

Format
LL 9999 LL, for example AA 1234 BB (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Reads the same as today's plate: region pair on the left (AA is Kyiv), series pair on the right. The 2004 annex also carried one region-free pair, II, "nationwide", that deliberately decoded to nowhere at all.

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

Years issued
2004 to 2015. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 112 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE 2004 PLATE. Same АА 1234 АА grammar as today's, the 2015 change was the BAND and the font, not the serial. The 2004 panel is described by the standard itself and is the reliable way to date a Ukrainian photograph: «зліва у вигляді прямокутника, поділеного на дві рівні частини, верхня з яких блакитного кольору, а нижня лимонно-жовтого, у вигляді напису UА знизу та малого герба України зверху».

Legal basis and sources

  1. ДСТУ 4278:2004 «ДОРОЖНІЙ ТРАНСПОРТ. ЗНАКИ НОМЕРНІ ТРАНСПОРТНИХ ЗАСОБІВ. Загальні вимоги. Правила застосування», «Чинний від 2004-02-20»: Таблиця 1 (type 1), Таблиця 3 (520 x 112), Таблиця 4 (type 1: 4 digits), п. 2.6... http://www.infocar.com.ua/law_ukr/law_22.html
  2. https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Номерні_знаки_України https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Номерні_знаки_України

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ua-standard-2004. 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-standard-2004")'