Ukraine license plate: Transit 2015

Issued today 2015 to today. Temporary 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, Transit 2015 (2015 to today), sample 01 AA 1234

Format, years and the law

Format
99 LL 9999, for example 01 AA 1234 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The two leading digits are the region as a number, 11 is Kyiv, 01 Crimea, 27 Sevastopol, a separate table the letter-pair plates never use. The six counted digits include those two, so the actual running number is only four.

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
Temporary: short-validity plates (transit, awaiting registration). Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #D52B1E
Size
520 × 112 mm · every country's size
About this plate
THE RED TRANSIT PLATE for cars, vans, lorries, buses and trailers. Two things make it the most misread Ukrainian plate: the region is a NUMBER here and a LETTER PAIR on every type-1 plate, and the six digits the instrument counts INCLUDE the two-digit region code («Кількість цифр (зокрема код регіону), 6»), so the running number is four digits, not six. Non-retroreflective and permitted to be made of polystyrene strip: Ukraine treats this as consumable, not as a plate.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Додаток 1 тип 2 «Знаки для разових поїздок для всіх типів автомобілів, автомобільних причепів»; Додаток 2 Таблиця 1/2 (520 x 112, 6 digits incl. region code, 2 letters, red field, white characters, NO retroreflective... https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0353-21
  2. Додаток 6 «КОДИ, які позначають адміністративно-територіальну належність місця реєстрації транспортного засобу», 01-27, Kyiv 11 and 31 https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0353-21
  3. Зміна № 1 до ДСТУ 4278:2012, Додаток А підтип 2-1: «22, код адміністративно-територіальної належності; АН, літеросполука, що позначає серію; 0880, порядковий номер», the group order this pattern encodes https://web.archive.org/web/20180328225320/http://www.sai.gov.ua/uploads/filemanager/file/zmina-1-dstu-4278.pdf

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is ua-transit-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-transit-2015")'