Vehicle registration plates of Georgia (country)

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EU-style Georgian new registration plate
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Old Georgian registration plate
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Georgian registration plate with old "GEO" country code
EU-style temporary Georgian registration plate Georgia 2014 temporary plate.jpg
EU-style temporary Georgian registration plate

Vehicle registration plates of Georgia are composed of an embossed serial of two letters, a hyphen, three numbers, a hyphen, and two letters (e.g. AB-115-BA), in black on a white background with a blue vertical strip on the left. [1] The plates are issued in the Latin alphabet. Georgian registration plates are the same size as the most common European registration plate. All plates have the abbreviation "GE" in the lower left corner of the plate and the national flag in the upper left corner. This set of new style registration plates have been in use since 1 September 2014. [2]

Contents

A new, European-style of registration plate was introduced on 1 September 2014. These have sets of two letters first and last (like French and Italian registration plates), with three numerals in the middle. A blue strip on the left contains the Georgian flag and a "GE", and there is a small security hologram on the bottom right. [2] As additional security features, the plates have a watermark-like symbol of the LEPL Service Agency of MIA[ clarification needed ] of Georgia and a machine-readable data matrix code near the hologram. The old style plates with three letters, a hyphen and three numbers (e.g. ABC-775), in black on a white background, became invalid in September 2020. To accommodate owners of imported North American or Japanese vehicles, a more square styled plate is also available. [2]

Previous series

Between 1977 and 1993, Georgian registration plates were manufactured in accordance with the Soviet GOST 3207-77 standard. The alphanumeric sequence took the form of: x #### XX, where x is a lowercase Cyrillic serial/counter letter; # is any digit in the range 0–9; and XX are two uppercase Cyrillic letters indicating where the vehicle was first registered.

Georgia used codes ГА, ГГ and ГР without particularity of territory, АИ was only used for Abkhazia, and ЮО was only used for South Ossetia.

Former vehicular designations

Originally the first letter of the old registration plate was assigned according to the territory where the vehicle was registered:

Once the system was exhausted, it was removed. Anyone may buy the combination that they like. Some commercial organizations have bought up all the number sequences of the old registration plates within one tri-letter combination (e.g. all the TBC plates are owned by TBC Bank, and all the MZE plates are owned by Mze TV Company). Ambulances had plates in the PSP series, after the pharmaceutical company sponsoring them, and fire engines have plates in the SOS series.

Embassies and consulates

Embassy and consulate vehicles have their own registration plate with white characters and white numbers on a red background. Numbers on embassy plates are formatted so that the first two digits represent the foreign entity/organization the vehicle is registered, followed by a CMD, D or AS. The last three digits are sequential, where XX CMD 001 is (generally) the Ambassador's flag car. For a list of foreign entity/organization and their first digits, see below:

CodeCountry or organization
001Flag of Germany.svg Germany
002Flag of the United States.svg United States
003Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
004Flag of Israel.svg Israel
005Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
006Flag of Russia.svg Russia
007Flag of the United Nations.svg United Nations
008Flag of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.svg Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
009Flag of Iran.svg Iran
010Flag of Vatican City (2023-present).svg Vatican City
011Flag of Armenia.svg Armenia
012Flag of France.svg France
013Flag of the Red Cross.svg Red Cross
014Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine
015International organizations
016Flag of Europe.svg European Union
017Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
018Flag of Greece.svg Greece
019Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan
020 World Bank
021Flag of Romania.svg Romania
022Flag of Poland.svg Poland
023Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Cote d'Ivoire
024Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia
025 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
026Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria
027Flag of the Red Cross.svg International Committee of the Red Cross
028Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
029Flag of Italy.svg Italy
030Flag of San Marino.svg San Marino
031Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
032Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic
033Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden
035Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan
036 Flag of Europe.svg Council of Europe
037Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines
038Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
039Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania
040Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia
041 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
043Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq
044Flag of Spain.svg Spain
045Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary
046 Flag of Europe.svg European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia
047 Asian Development Bank
048Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia
049Flag of NATO.svg NATO
050Flag of Japan.svg Japan
051Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland
052Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia
054Flag of Malta.svg Malta
055Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
056Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil
057Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia
059Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar
063Flag of Austria.svg Austria
065Flag of Turkmenistan.svg Turkmenistan
067Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
075Flag of Norway.svg Norway

Abkhazia and South Ossetia

The self-proclaimed republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia issue their own registration plates: Russian-style plates in Abkhazia and Soviet-style plates in South Ossetia. Since 2004 these registration plates are forbidden to be used on the territory controlled by the government of Georgia; while the Georgian plates are not allowed to be used on the territory controlled by these breakaway republics. Thus most cars that cross the boundaries of the unrecognised republics have to use Russian registration plates.

Military plates

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Georgian military license plate

As of 2011, military police patrol vehicle plates were black with white letters, with a narrow yellow strip on the left containing the letters "GA" above each other. The code was two Latin letters followed by three numerals, with a safety hologram separating them. Dimensions are 550 mm (22 in) by 110 mm (4.3 in). [3] Regular military license plates receive a green strip on the left.

References

  1. "Georgia license plates". Matriculasdelmundo. 2021-10-14.
  2. 1 2 3 "შსს-ს მომსახურების სააგენტოში ახალი სანომრე ნიშნების დიზაინის პრეზენტაცია გაიმართა" [Presentation of new license plates held at Service Agency] (in Georgian). Service Agency of MIA of Georgia. 2014-03-05. Archived from the original on 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
  3. Exec. Order No. 223, annex no. 3  (April 26, 2011; in ka)  Ministry of Justice of Georgia . Retrieved on March 25, 2014.