UK Number Plate requirements in Europe

[Grey13]

Hi
Have the rules changed at all.
In the past I had a normal plate and a GB sticker on the back of the car.
My new car does not want a sticker !
Is this OK?
Must I have both front and back with GB EU insignia.
And on the VAN?

 

[AndrewAventura]

Hi
Have the rules changed at all.
In the past I had a normal plate and a GB sticker on the back of the car.
My new car does not want a sticker !
Is this OK?
Must I have both front and back with GB EU insignia.
And on the VAN?
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You need to display a 'UK' sticker now, not a GB one. And will have the union flag rather than the EU logo of course!

I'm not sure how much enforcement or worry there is about driving with GB / Euro designation still. But going to France, I don't want to tempt it.

 

[otherclive]

Most of the UK stickers that I see are much larger than the old GB stickers. Is it a new requirement or could you cut one smaller or buy a smaller one?

 

[RogerL]

Hi
Have the rules changed at all.
In the past I had a normal plate and a GB sticker on the back of the car.
My new car does not want a sticker !
Is this OK?
Must I have both front and back with GB EU insignia.
And on the VAN?
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What's on the number plate is not irrelevant for UK-registered cars - as above we now need the separate, larger UK sticker

 

[GUMPY]

In France if your number plate has UK and a British flag yo do not need a UK sticker.
In Spain you do.

Do I need to put a UK sticker on my vehicle?​

From 28 September 2021, you must identify that your vehicle is from the UK when driving abroad.
If your number plate includes the UK identifier with the Union flag (also known as the Union Jack), you do not need a UK sticker to drive in France.
However, you will need to display a UK sticker clearly on the rear of your vehicle if your number plate has any of the following:

• a GB identifier with the Union flag (also known as the Union Jack)
• a Euro symbol
• a national flag of England, Scotland or Wales
• numbers and letters only - no flag or identifier

If you are driving in Spain, you must display a UK sticker no matter what is on your number plate.
If you have a GB sticker, you must cover or remove it.

Brittany Ferries

www.brittany-ferries.co.uk

 

[Jcloughie]

So following on from Gumby’s post. You can still avoid a sticker by getting a magnetic UK badge.

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John

 

[otherclive]

You can get stickers to go over the end of the number plate. They go over the GB bit.

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[Grey13]

Seems this is what is required.

 

[otherclive]

Seems this is what is required.
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I will be using end plate stickers for when we go to Germany later this year.

 

[Devonisheaven]

As above, I just use a magnetic UK one.

 

[Lutz]

Note that the UK in the blue band on the left should really always be white, also on the rear number plate, although I doubt whether anyone would actually make an issue out of that.

 

[Lutz]

That's interesting as here in the UK the the rear one has to be Yellow.

I was only referring to the letters UK, not the rest of the number plate which can have a yellow background if that's what the UK requires. The same applies, by the way, to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but they have yellow plates at the front, too.

 

[Hutch]

I was only referring to the letters UK, not the rest of the number plate which can have a yellow background if that's what the UK requires. The same applies, by the way, to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, but they have yellow plates at the front, too.

I meant the lettering, but looking at websites, it gets confusing as some show the lettering in Black, some with full yellow and just the union flag and lettering in black on yellow

 

[Lutz]

For obvious reasons the letters UK can't be in black on a blue background because that would be very hard to pick up by ANPR, especially if the number plate is a bit dirty. The country id must be well legible because some countries have the same arrangement of the digits in the actual registration id, so it would be difficult to tell where a vehicle is from unless the country id is unmistakably clear.