Vehicle registration plates of the Czech Republic

As of the year 2007 there are two different valid systems of vehicle registration plates in the Czech Republic.

Format

Czech registration plate; here A = Prague

Czech registration plate; here H = Hradec Králové Region

The new Czech vehicle registration plate system was introduced between 29 June 2001 and 17 July 2001. The first letter from the left represents the region (Kraj), and then there follows a combination of letters or numbers numbered upward from 1X0 0001, where X is the letter of the region. In 2009, both Prague (A) and Středočeský kraj/Central Bohemia (S) reached the combination of six 9s in their license plates and started issuing a two letter format numbered 1XA 0000, where X is the letter of region and A is a letter in alphabetical order (after 1AA 9999, 1AB 0000 follows).

Since 2004 with the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union, a blue European strip with the letters CZ and European stars were added.

As of 1 January 2015, registration numbers are not changed if the owner of a vehicle moves to another region or if the vehicle is re-registered to a new owner residing in a different region. New numbers (with the corresponding code of the region of re-registration) are assigned only in the case of damage, loss, or theft of a registration plate.

Map of the Czech Republic with regions (coded)

History

1932 - 1954

This system was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1932. The first letters are represented by region.

• Composition (older form: 1932 - 1939):

X-NN-NNN, white on black

• Composition (newer form: 1945 - 1954):

X-NNNNN, black on white

1954 - 2001

Czech registration plate (here A = Prague registration)

Czechoslovak registration plate for a commercially used vehicle

Czechoslovak registration from the 1970s, still valid in the Czech Republic

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This system was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1960. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic introduced a new system of car registration plates in 1997 while the Czech Republic kept issuing the old one until 2001. In the old system, the two first letters represented the district (okres). Registrations in Prague began with A, while the vehicles used by the government had registration plates beginning with AA.

• Composition (older form: 1960–1984):

XX-NN-NN or XXX-NN-NN

• Composition (newer form: 1984–2001):

XX NN-NN or XXX NN-NN

(X = letters, N = numbers.)

Commercially used vehicles and heavy goods vehicle had a yellow background. Vehicles with foreign owners had a blue background and yellow letters.

List of districts

Special license plates

Diplomatic registration plates

Diplomatic plate – old system

Diplomatic plate – new system

Until 2001 diplomatic plates (as well as those on cars owned by foreign residents) in the Czech Republic used a blue background with yellow letters. These have been replaced by plates with blue letters on a white background. Foreigners (Czechoslovakia) used same plates as DC plates except they don't use DD or XX, and non-diplomatic personnel used a XX code instead.

Others

Commercial vehicles of Czechoslovakia have black letters with a yellow background, military have numbers only, rentals of Czechoslovakia have red letters on a white background (discontinued), historic vehicles use green letters on a white background (always using "V" as a prefix), trailers of Czechoslovakia have the district codes put in the middle (99 XXX-99 or 99 XX-99) and technical embassies use red letters on a yellow background.

Gallery

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  Utilitary vehicle registration from the 90s
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  American standard plate
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  Military vehicle registration
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  Antique vehicle registration

External links

• Media related to License plates of the Czech Republic at Wikimedia Commons
• Diplomatic license plate