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Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles
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The personalisation imprint shall contain the following information:
the name of the competent authority — see also Letter Aa)
the name of the authority issuing the Registration Certificate (optional)
the unambiguous consecutive number of the document as used within the Member State — see also Letter Aa)
The following data from Chapter II.5; according to Chapter II.7, individual national codes may be added to the preceding harmonised Community codes:
Code | Reference | |
---|---|---|
(A) | registration number (official licence number) | |
(B) | date of first registration of the vehicle | |
(I) | date of the registration to which this certificate refers | |
personal data | ||
(C.1) | holder of the Registration Certificate | |
(C.1.1) | surname or business name | |
(C.1.2) | other name(s) or initial(s) (where appropriate) | |
(C.1.3) | address in the Member State of registration on the date of issue of the document | |
(C.4) | Where the particulars specified in Chapter II.6, code C.2 are not included in the imprint of the Registration Certificate defined in the Letters A and B, reference to the fact that the holder of the Registration Certificate (a) is the vehicle owner; (b) is not the vehicle owner; (c) is not identified as the vehicle owner in the Registration Certificate; |
The back shall bear at least the remaining data specified in Chapter II.5; in accordance with Chapter II.7, individual national codes may be added to the preceding harmonised Community codes.
In detail, these data are:
Code | Reference | |
---|---|---|
Vehicle Data (in consideration of the notes in Chapter II.5) | ||
(D.1) | make | |
(D.2) | type (variant/version, where appropriate) | |
(D.3) | commercial description(s) | |
(E) | vehicle identification number | |
(F.1) | max. technically permissible laden mass, except for motorcycles (kg) | |
(G) | mass of the vehicle in service with bodywork, and with coupling device in the case of a towing vehicle in service from any category other than M1 (kg) | |
(H) | period of validity, if not unlimited | |
(K) | type-approval number (if available) | |
(P.1) | displacement (cm 3 ) | |
(P.2) | nominal power (kW) | |
(P.3) | type of fuel or power source | |
(Q) | power/weight ratio (in kW/kg) (only for motorcycles) | |
(S.1) | number of seats, including driver's seat | |
(S.2) | number of standing places (where appropriate) |
Optionally, additional data from II.6 (with the harmonised codes) and II.7 may be added on the back of the card.]
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[F1The certificate consisting of one part only will bear the words ‘ Registration Certificate ’ , and there will be no reference in the text to ‘ Part I ’ .]
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