page_title: Vehicle registration plates of Belgium
section_title: Plates for personnel of international bodies
hierarchical_section_title: Vehicle registration plates of Belgium / Types / Plates for personnel of international bodies
caption_attribution_description: English: 1975-2000 EU license plate, seen in Dortmund, Germany, 2012
context_page_description: Number plates in Belgium are driver specific, meaning that they are transferred to a new vehicle from the owner's previous one.
  The rear licence plate is state supplied, while the front plate is owner supplied. This has its influence on the look of the front plate, which can be identical to the rear one or similar to a European licence plates with a blue EU flag in it. This explains why you often see scratched, dirty, or old number plates on new cars in Belgium. The rear plate is usually mounted on a base plate which displays the letter "B" and usually an advertisement for the car dealer.
  The responsible government agency is the Vehicle Registration Service of the Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport.
context_section_description: Plates given out to persons working for the international bodies in Belgium, including EU staff. "International" plates can be time-limited (according to the work contract) or have unlimited validity. If applicable, the time limitation is displayed inside the European circle of stars.
  The plates have blue characters on a white background. The combination consists of 6 digits without letters. Until now the first digit is always "9".
  These plates have also been discontinued. Nato, EU, foreign institutions, were carrying a plate with the standard red template, with the 8-aaa-### format. 
  Since 2014 the NATO, EU, Foreign Institutions registered cars are provided with a standard red Belgian plate in the format N-LLL-NNN where N is a digit and L is a letter.
caption: 1975-2000 license plate for EU
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