---
id: "be_vehicle_plate"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["transport"]
country: ["BE"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/be_vehicle_plate"
---

# Belgian vehicle registration plate (nummerplaat) (`be_vehicle_plate`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Registration number of a vehicle in Belgium as shown on the European-format plate issued since 15 November 2010: an index character, three letters and three digits, written with hyphens as 1-ABC-123. The index is a digit for ordinary plates: series 1 ran from 2010 and series 2 started with 2-AAA-001 in December 2020. Other indexes mark vehicle categories, among them M (motorcycles), S (mopeds), P (speed pedelecs), Q (trailers), O (oldtimers), T (taxis), G (agricultural vehicles), Z (dealers), Y (test drives) and V (repair businesses). The Vehicle Registration Service (DIV) issues the plates, and a plate normally stays with its owner rather than with the car. Plates of the formats used before 2010 (ABC-123 until 2008, 123-ABC from 2008), personalised, diplomatic, temporary and export plates follow other rules and are not covered.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: Belgium (BE)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[1-9GMOPQSTVYZ]-?[A-Z]{3}-?\d{3}$
```

## Examples

- `1-ABC-123` — Format example of the current plate from Wikipedia
- `2-AAA-001` — First plate of series 2, pressed in December 2020
- `1XKP083` — Synthetic plate of series 1 written without hyphens
- `M-AAA-000` — Format of motorcycle plates since 2014, from Dutch Wikipedia
- `ABC-123` (invalid example) — Format used until 2008, not covered
- `1-AB-123` (invalid example) — Two letters

## Translations

- nl: Nummerplaat: Kenteken op de Europese nummerplaat sinds 2010 - een indexteken, drie letters en drie cijfers (1-ABC-123).
- fr: Plaque d'immatriculation: Immatriculation sur la plaque européenne depuis 2010 - un caractère d'index, trois lettres et trois chiffres (1-ABC-123).
- de: Kennzeichen
- ru: Номерной знак транспортного средства Бельгии: Регистрационный номер на номерном знаке европейского образца с 2010 года - индексный символ, три буквы и три цифры (1-ABC-123).

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Belgium>
- wikipedia: <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgisch_kenteken>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/be_vehicle_plate.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/BE/transport/be_vehicle_plate.yaml>