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vehicle.registrationNumber

Registration number · Amtliches Kennzeichen

Registration number as printed in registration field A, without the country sign, including temporary, export and trade (dealer) registration numbers. It identifies the registration, not the vehicle, and is personal data when it can be linked to a natural person.

Key
vehicle.registrationNumber
Row name (BT-160)
Amtliches Kennzeichen [vehicle.registrationNumber]
Registration number [vehicle.registrationNumber]

The bare key vehicle.registrationNumber is also accepted.

Tier
Recommended
Status
draft
Representation term
Number
Value format
1-15 characters as printed, NFC, upper case: letters (Unicode category Lu), digits 0-9, blank and hyphen, first character a letter or digit; XSD or ECMAScript (u flag): ^[\p{Lu}0-9][\p{Lu}0-9 -]{0,14}$; engines without \p{Lu} (Python re) test unicodedata.category per character; e.g. XX-VE 1, AB-123-CD; receivers compare after removing blanks and hyphens
Grammar
^[\p{Lu}0-9][\p{Lu}0-9 -]{0,14}$
Unit
none
Code list
none
Required when
SHOULD on service, lease and rental lines when the vehicle is registered; otherwise only when the receiver needs it (data minimisation)
Statutory feature
No
Repeatable
No, at most one row per line
Anchors
  • Directive 1999/37/EC Art. 2(b) and code A 'registration number' (DE 'Zulassungsnummer (amtliches Kennzeichen)')
  • Reg. (EU) 2018/858 Art. 3(53) (registration on a permanent or temporary basis)
  • Directive 2014/45/EU Annex II item 2
  • UN/EDIFACT 7405 BL 'Vehicle registration number'
  • UNTDID 1153 ABZ 'Vehicle licence number' (BT-128)
  • PL KSeF P_22BNR
Carrier and binding
BG-32: BT-160 'Amtliches Kennzeichen [vehicle.registrationNumber]', BT-161 'XX-VE 1'. Only when no VIN is known, BT-128 MAY carry the registration number with scheme ABZ; the row then repeats it (V-18)
Values in the test corpus
  • XX-VE 1
Crosswalk (informative)

VDA 4938 P2 v3.1 seg. 77 GIN+BL; COVESA VSS LicensePlate; UN/EDIFACT 7405 BL; PL KSeF P_22BNR; schema.org has no registration-number property; Odette FVL by name only

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

Source and changes
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