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vehicle.firstRegistrationDate

Date of first registration · Datum der Erstzulassung

Date of first registration of the vehicle as printed in registration field B of the registration document the issuer relies on; for an imported vehicle, the date that document shows. An absent row makes no statement.

Key
vehicle.firstRegistrationDate
Row name (BT-160)
Datum der Erstzulassung [vehicle.firstRegistrationDate]
Date of first registration [vehicle.firstRegistrationDate]

The bare key vehicle.firstRegistrationDate is also accepted.

Tier
Core
Status
draft
Representation term
Date
Value format
YYYY-MM-DD; YYYY-MM only if the day is genuinely unknown (reduced-precision date)
Grammar
^([0-9]{4}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])|[0-9]{4}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2]))$
Unit
none
Code list
none
Required when
MUST for roles supply and trade-in whenever the vehicle has been registered; SHOULD on service lines; MAY with conditionCode new when the registration was made in the buyer's name for this supply
Statutory feature
No
Repeatable
No, at most one row per line
Anchors
  • Directive 1999/37/EC Art. 2(b) ('registration') and Annex I code B 'date of first registration of the vehicle' (DE 'Datum der Erstzulassung des Fahrzeugs')
  • UN/EDIFACT 2005 qualifier 375 'Date of first registration' (VDA 4938 DTM+375)
  • schema.org dateVehicleFirstRegistered
  • COVESA VSS DateVehicleFirstRegistered
  • STAR FirstRegistrationDate
Carrier and binding
BG-32: BT-160 'Datum der Erstzulassung [vehicle.firstRegistrationDate]', BT-161 '2022-03-18'
Values in the test corpus
  • 2022-03-18
  • 2020-06-15
  • 2021-05-04
  • 2026-09-30
  • 2023-02-01
Crosswalk (informative)

schema.org dateVehicleFirstRegistered; COVESA VSS DateVehicleFirstRegistered; STAR FirstRegistrationDate; VDA 4938 P2 v3.1 seg. 76 DTM+375 (CCYYMMDD, format 102; a YYYY-MM value has no VDA equivalent)

informative; names and IRIs of third-party works, CC BY 4.0, sources stated; VDA 4938: reprint with source

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