Ukraine license plate: Taxi 2004

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

Ukraine license plate, Taxi 2004 (2004 to 2015), sample AA 1234 AD

Format, years and the law

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

Yellow was attached to the vehicle kind itself, bus, minibus, taxi, in the 2004 standard. The characters read exactly as a private car's: region pair left, series pair right.

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
Taxi: for-hire vehicles where separately serialized or colored. Issued for car, bus, and van.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFCC00
Size
520 × 112 mm · every country's size
About this plate
The 2004 standard attached it to the VEHICLE KIND (bus, minibus, taxi); the 2021 order attaches it instead to the OPERATOR'S REGISTRY ENTRY, which is a genuine change of rule and not a change of wording.

Legal basis and sources

  1. ДСТУ 4278:2004 п. 2.3: «Знаки типу 1 з полем жовтого кольору застосовують для автобусів, мікроавтобусів, таксі». http://www.infocar.com.ua/law_ukr/law_22.html

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ua-taxi-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-taxi-2004")'