België · Belgique · Belgien
Belgian ordinary plates are unusually printed in dark red. The registration belongs to the keeper, and modern European-format issues use a leading category digit followed by three letters and three digits.
The ordinary example follows 1-AAA-000.
A leading 1 marks the ordinary private series; other leading digits identify categories.
The integrated or adjacent international identifier is B.
Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.
Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.
Colour and suffixes can completely change a plate's meaning.
The current ordinary 1-AAA-000 registration.
M leads the motorcycle series.
Q identifies trailers requiring registration.
CD plates retain a protected diplomatic grammar.
A reconstructed current plate and concise system timeline, separated from the more extensively documented country archives.
Belgian ordinary plates are unusually printed in dark red. The registration belongs to the keeper, and modern European-format issues use a leading category digit followed by three letters and three digits.
The 1-AAA-000 system establishes the ordinary plate described above.
A leading 1 marks the ordinary private series; other leading digits identify categories.
Special status, vehicle class or use can change the colour, prefix, suffix or even the entire registration logic.
M leads the motorcycle series.
Q identifies trailers requiring registration.
CD plates retain a protected diplomatic grammar.
Belgian ordinary plates are unusually printed in dark red. The registration belongs to the keeper, and modern European-format issues use a leading category digit followed by three letters and three digits.
The ordinary example follows 1-AAA-000.
A leading 1 marks the ordinary private series; other leading digits identify categories.
The integrated or adjacent international identifier is B.
Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.
Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.
Colour, prefix, dimensions or a control field can signal a different legal registration class.
The current ordinary 1-AAA-000 registration.
M leads the motorcycle series.
Q identifies trailers requiring registration.
CD plates retain a protected diplomatic grammar.
Search the ordinary 1-AAA-000 grammar and the principal special registrations represented in this guide.
A leading 1 marks the ordinary private series; other leading digits identify categories.
The B identifier distinguishes the country in international traffic.
Special-series colours and codes are legal status markers rather than decorative alternatives.