Consular vehicles registered outside of Berlin or Bonn used to have official plates with three or four digits with the first digit always being a nine (e.g. D-9XXX).
Since 2006 official plates are abolished and all new registered consular vehicles get normal standard plates.
Niemand Consular vehicles registered outside of Berlin or Bonn used to have official plates with three or four digits with the first digit always being a nine (e.g. D-9XXX).
Since 2006 official plates are abolished and all new registered consular vehicles get normal standard plates.
Some consulates have 9xxx plates on cars that were definitly build after 2009. I've seen with my one eyes.
Europlate says: Since March 2007 local official vehicles, including foreign consular officials, have had normal series registrations; eventually reserved letter combinations will be used.
I don't know how they are phasing them out though, perhaps consuls can transfer their plates between vehicles?
PlateSpotterGB Europlate says: Since March 2007 local official vehicles, including foreign consular officials, have had normal series registrations; eventually reserved letter combinations will be used.
I don't know how they are phasing them out though, perhaps consuls can transfer their plates between vehicles?
I actually looked it up now. All official plates are abolished since 2007. The consular plates (and police plates in some states) are the only exception. But you only have the right to use a consular plate if you are a not a honorary consul. Honorary consuls only get a licence plate from the normal series because their diplomatic status is limited. They have the right to put one of those nice "CC"- Stickers on their car though (as seen above). The letter combination on the plate (CC) is not reserved. Everybody can get one of those.
Niemand I actually looked it up now. All official plates are abolished since 2007. The consular plates (and police plates in some states) are the only exception. But you only have the right to use a consular plate if you are a not a honorary consul. Honorary consuls only get a licence plate from the normal series because their diplomatic status is limited. They have the right to put one of those nice "CC"- Stickers on their car though (as seen above). The letter combination on the plate (CC) is not reserved. Everybody can get one of those.
Thanks for this information. Yes I've now looked it on the German wikipedia and it says the same, I don't know why Europlate has got this wrong. I always thought that consular plates were still being issued until I looked at Europlate today and I was disappointed. So I'm glad to find they are still being issued!
I actually looked it up now. All official plates are abolished since 2007. The consular plates (and police plates in some states) are the only exception. But you only have the right to use a consular plate if you are a not a honorary consul. Honorary consuls only get a licence plate from the normal series because their diplomatic status is limited. They have the right to put one of those nice "CC"- Stickers on their car though (as seen above). The letter combination on the plate (CC) is not reserved. Everybody can get one of those.
Thanks for looking Just for a bit of extra Information: In most states Police plates are now being issued with the same code like government's plates, e.g. in my state RPL for Rheinland-Pfalz Landtag (Parliament of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.) Other official plates are abolished, that's right, yet I've seen two official plates on newer cars, but These were very low plates from Berlin (B 10 and B 50). I don't know exactly for which Kind of persons they're given out, but B 10 was on a car with which the head of Germany's biggest archaelogical foundation was driving. (Hermann Parzinger, head of the 'Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz') Sorry for this gargantuan comment, bit of German plates culture with RLP