This is a change that reaches vehicle license plates this month, DGT reports

Car registration in Spain will undergo a change this month. Vehicles are preparing for A new identification letterbecause the panels are supposed to start having The letter n.

That is, new cars will soon have n as a first letter, as after writing an article (April 9), the last known registration refers to the MZX in accordance with the portal dieselogasoline.com. Mentioned information, determine this Missing more than 20,000 vehicles So the registration plate begins with a letter n.

How does the current registration system work?

Since 2000 there is a combination four numbers and three letters In registration plates operated by DGT. In this system, numbers range from 0000 to 9999, letters from BBB to ZZZ, except vowels and other consonants such as ñ and q.

So, Registrations are assigned to a rowThis means that they first progress and then alphabetically, so the first panel was 0000 BBB and the last will be the 9999 ZZZ. Finally, it should be noted that this system provides a total of 80 million combinations which will be exhausted in the 2050s recently, according to the latest DGT estimates.

Evolution of enrolling in a car in Spain

Headquarters 600 with the first provincial registration system in the case of Huesce.
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Since it started Registration of vehicles in Spain 31. October 1900 – The exploitation in which the first car in the Balearic Islands was recorded, “registration models changed.” The first used system was a numerical provincial (1900-1971), which offered to register up to 52 million vehicles, although it was finally consumed by 5.4 million.

An example of this system This would be 000234, where you were “referring” to the province of Terel. The second system was Alphanumeric landscapeused between 1971 and 2000, which recorded 29.86 million vehicles. An example of registration in this form would be 3456 BC. And since 2000, the current mentioned above.

Registration plates belonging to the state

There are two categories. On the one hand, there are diplomatic registrations awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These can represent different colors and abbreviations Across the body to which they belong to: a red background with a CD of letters indicating a diplomatic corpus; Green background with CC abbreviation, for consular body vehicles; yellow background with letters that corresponds to administrative technicians; and Blue background with the abbreviation OI, which identify international organizations.

On the other hand, there is registration State security forces and vehiclesthat use different abbreviations in accordance with the institution: PGC for the Civil Guard, CNP for the National Police Corps, ET for the Army, Ea for air forceFN for Navy forces, Gothic and follows the number for Ertzaintz and CGPC with a red strip for the Canary Police.