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vehicle.registrationCountryCode

Country of registration · Zulassungsland

State that issued vehicle.registrationNumber, as a code from the EN 16931 country code list (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, plus XI and 1A). Greece is GR, not the VAT prefix EL. Not the distinguishing sign on plates (D, A, F).

Key
vehicle.registrationCountryCode
Row name (BT-160)
Zulassungsland [vehicle.registrationCountryCode]
Country of registration [vehicle.registrationCountryCode]

The bare key vehicle.registrationCountryCode is also accepted.

Tier
Recommended
Status
draft
Representation term
Code
Value format
^([A-Z]{2}|1A)$, value in the EN 16931 country code list
Grammar
^([A-Z]{2}|1A)$
Unit
none
Code list

EN 16931 country code list

Required when
SHOULD whenever vehicle.registrationNumber is present
Statutory feature
No
Repeatable
No, at most one row per line
Anchors
  • Directive 1999/37/EC Annex I II.4 (Member State issuing)
  • ISO 3166-1
  • EN 16931 country code list (BT-40, BR-CL-14)
  • informative: STAR RegistrationCountry
Carrier and binding
BG-32: BT-160 'Zulassungsland [vehicle.registrationCountryCode]', BT-161 'DE'
Values in the test corpus
  • DE
Crosswalk (informative)

STAR VehicleDetails RegistrationCountry; no VDA 4938 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/registrationCountryCode.yaml · Propose a change