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As I only found French articles, I'll make a summary here.
Next year (July 2010) Belgium will start to use European license plates.
It was the last EU-country which did not yet had EU-plates.
So the new plates will be bigger, with 7 digits/characters (instead of 6 currently), and -worse of all- black instead of the current red for digits/characters. I find that sad. I liked our red-on-white plates.
I bet that Flanders will try to get black-on-yellow (colors of Flanders flag, so they use it everywhere), I wonder if at that time they will find a way to split plates system between regions or not, as they wanted to do that.
They will not force to replace old plates, just use the new system for new plates. As in Belgium the plate is not linked to the car but rather to the owner, but that it costs the same to keep or not the plate when transfering it to another car, the plates are quickly renewed (700 000 new plates per year for 6 000 000 plates currently used...)
So I'll be able to keep the red plate on the 206sw
Next year (July 2010) Belgium will start to use European license plates.
It was the last EU-country which did not yet had EU-plates.
So the new plates will be bigger, with 7 digits/characters (instead of 6 currently), and -worse of all- black instead of the current red for digits/characters. I find that sad. I liked our red-on-white plates.
I bet that Flanders will try to get black-on-yellow (colors of Flanders flag, so they use it everywhere), I wonder if at that time they will find a way to split plates system between regions or not, as they wanted to do that.
They will not force to replace old plates, just use the new system for new plates. As in Belgium the plate is not linked to the car but rather to the owner, but that it costs the same to keep or not the plate when transfering it to another car, the plates are quickly renewed (700 000 new plates per year for 6 000 000 plates currently used...)
So I'll be able to keep the red plate on the 206sw