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Commission Regulation (EU) No 383/2012 of 4 May 2012 laying down technical requirements with regard to driving licences which include a storage medium (microchip) (Text with EEA relevance)
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Member States shall deliver the EU type-approval certificate on the presentation of security and functional certificates as provided in this Annex. EU type-approval certificates shall comply with the model in Annex IV.
The EU type-approval numbering system shall consist of:
The letter ‘ e ’ followed by a distinguishing number for the Member State which has granted the EU type-approval
for Germany
for France
for Italy
for the Netherlands
for Sweden
for Belgium
for Hungary
for the Czech Republic
for Spain
for the United Kingdom
for Austria
for Luxembourg
for Finland
for Denmark
for Romania
for Poland
for Portugal
for Greece
for Ireland
for Croatia
for Slovenia
for Slovakia
for Estonia
for Latvia
for Bulgaria
for Lithuania
for Cyprus
for Malta.
The letters DL preceded by a hyphen and followed by the two figures indicating the sequence number assigned to this Regulation or latest major technical amendment to this Regulation. The sequence number for this Regulation is 00.
A unique identification number of the EU type-approval attributed by the issuing Member State.
Example of the EU type-approval numbering system: e50-DL00 12345
The approval number shall be stored on the microchip in DG 1 for each driving licence carrying such microchip.]
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