Information on CBE service delivery Hungaria

Functional contact: eucaris@bm.gov.hu
Technical contact: eucaris@bm.gov.hu

Main characteristics of the Hungarian vehicle register:

  • The license number can be entered with or without spaces and dashes. When using spaces or dashes, these should be entered on the same position as found on the license plate.
  • The Hungarian register contains normal, personalized, diplomatic, transport/taxi, historical (OT-1234) and export (temporary) license plates:
  • The Hungarian licence plate does not contain any sort of regional related code.
  • The Hungarian license plates;
    • Normal: maximum 6 characters: 3 alphabetical and 3 numeric (ex: Personal and Special-official license number)
    • Personal: maximum 6 characters: 4-5 alphabetic and 1-2 numeric
    • Special-official: maximum 6 characters: 2 characters alphabetic and 4 character numeric
      • Diplomat: First 2 alphabetic characters are always: DK or CK and 4 numeric characters
      • Old-timer: First 2 alphabetic characters are always: OT and 4 numeric characters
      • Ambulance: In the first 2 alphabetic characters the first letter is always: M and 4 numeric characters
      • Police and executive authorities: in the first 2 alphabetic characters  first letter is always: R (police) or RR (executive authorities: tax and custom, police)
  • An owner/holder can either be a ‘natural person’ or a ‘Company’
  • In the Hungarian vehicle registration, license plates are in general attached to the vehicles and not to the holders/owners. However an owner can purchase a personalized license plate and thus there are circumstances in which a plate is tied to the owner.
  • In Hungary the vehicle has an owner and holder or only just an owner. It is not possible that a vehicle has only a holder in Hungary. If the owner is a different person/company than the holder, the owner has an ownership on the vehicle and the holder can use the vehicle.
  • The Hungarian register stores vehicle information of vehicles including; Passenger cars, trucks, trailers, motorcycles and agricultural vehicles. Military vehicles are not registered in the Hungarian registration of vehicles.
  • Hungary keeps historic data for vehicles, owners and holders.

Additional Information:

  • The Hungarian CBEMultipleOHByRegNumAndDate request message  will contain 100-500 request ID’s.
  • Hungary will respond to multiple requests once a day.
  • The response time of a CBEMultipleOHByRegNumAndDate-message will be days (maximum 48 hours).
  • Hungary will be using all of the codes of traffic offences during the forthcoming exchange of information regarding the CBE Directive.

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