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vehicle.basicColourCode

Basic colour · Grundfarbe

Basic colour of the vehicle as printed in CoC item 40 or registration field R, one row per basic colour for multi-coloured vehicles. National register colours outside the ten (for example beige or cream) are mapped by the registry's published mapping table. The manufacturer's paint name or code is not part of 1.0.

Key
vehicle.basicColourCode
Row name (BT-160)
Grundfarbe [vehicle.basicColourCode]
Basic colour [vehicle.basicColourCode]

The bare key vehicle.basicColourCode is also accepted.

Tier
Recommended
Status
draft
Representation term
Code
Value format
one token from VEHICLE-COLOUR 1.0 per row; repeatable
Grammar
^(white|yellow|orange|red|violet|blue|green|grey|brown|black|other)$
Unit
none
Code list

VEHICLE-COLOUR 1.0

  • white
  • yellow
  • orange
  • red
  • violet
  • blue
  • green
  • grey
  • brown
  • black
  • other
Required when
SHOULD on supply and trade-in
Statutory feature
No
Repeatable
Yes, one row per value
Anchors
  • Reg. (EU) 2020/683 Annex VIII CoC item 40 and footnote 114 ('Indicate only the basic colour(s): white, yellow, orange, red, violet, blue, green, grey, brown or black')
  • Directive 1999/37/EC code R 'colour of the vehicle'
  • UN/CEFACT vocabulary colourCode
Carrier and binding
BG-32: BT-160 'Grundfarbe [vehicle.basicColourCode]', BT-161 'grey' (repeatable: one row per basic colour)
Values in the test corpus
  • grey
  • black
  • white
Crosswalk (informative)

schema.org color (inherited from Product); UN/CEFACT vocabulary colourCode

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Source and changes
registry/keys/basicColourCode.yaml · Propose a change