Vehicle registration plates of Georgia (country)


Vehicle registration plates of Georgia are composed of an embossed serial of two letters, a hyphen, three numbers, a hyphen, and two letters, in black on a white background with a blue vertical strip on the left. The plates are issued in the Latin alphabet. Georgian registration plates are the same size as the most common European registration plate. All plates have the abbreviation "GE" in the lower left corner of the plate and the national flag in the upper left corner. This set of new style registration plates have been in use since 1 September 2014.
A new, European-style of registration plate was introduced on 1 September 2014. These have sets of two letters first and last, with three numerals in the middle. A blue strip on the left contains the Georgian flag and a "GE", and there is a small security hologram on the bottom right. As additional security features, the plates have a watermark-like symbol of the LEPL Service Agency of MIA of Georgia and a machine-readable data matrix code near the hologram. The old style plates with three letters, a hyphen and three numbers, in black on a white background, will remain valid until 1st of September, 2020.
To accommodate owners of imported American or Japanese vehicles, a more square styled plate is also available.

Former vehicular designations

Originally the first letter of the old registration plate was assigned according to the territory where the vehicle was registered:
Once the system was exhausted, it was removed. Anyone may buy the combination that they like. Some commercial organizations have bought up all the number sequences of the old registration plates within one tri-letter combination. Ambulances had plates in the PSP series, after the pharmaceutical company sponsoring them, and fire engines have plates in the SOS series.

Embassies and consulates

Embassy and consulate vehicles have their own registration plate with white characters and white numbers on a red background. Numbers on embassy plates are formatted so that the first two digits represent the foreign entity/organization the vehicle is registered, followed by a CMD, D or AS. The last three digits are sequential, where XX CMD 001 is the Ambassador's flag car. For a list of foreign entity/organization and their first digits, see below:
CodeCountry or organization
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
09
10
11
12
13 Red Cross
14
15International Organizations
16
17
18
19
20World Bank
21
22
23
24
25European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
26
27 International Committee of the Red Cross
28
29
30
31
32
33
35
36 Council of Europe
37
38
39
40
41United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
43
44
45
46 European Union Monitoring Mission
47Asian Development Bank
48
49 NATO
50
51
52
54
55
56
57
59
63
65
67

Abkhazia and South Ossetia

The self-proclaimed republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia issue their own registration plates: Russian-style plates in Abkhazia and Soviet-style plates in South Ossetia. Since 2004 these registration plates are forbidden to be used on the territory controlled by the government of Georgia; while the Georgian plates are not allowed to be used on the territory controlled by republics. Thus most cars that cross the boundaries of the unrecognised republics have to use Russian registration plates.

Military plates

As of 2011, military police patrol vehicle plates were black with white letters, with a narrow yellow strip on the left containing the letters "GA" above each other. The code was two Latin letters followed by three numerals, with a safety hologram separating them. Dimensions are by. Regular military license plates receive a green strip on the left.