Information on CBE service delivery Spain

Functional Contact:  cbe.eucaris@dgt.es
Technical Contact:  mrs@interior.es

Main characteristics of the Spanish vehicle register:

  • In Spain a license plate is registered to a vehicle. This means that if the holder of a vehicle changes, the
    license plate stays the same. The new holder can request for a re-license of the vehicle, but these
    cases are rare.
  • The old kind of license plates contains a provincial code, but the current kind of licenses plates do not
    have this code. If a vehicle has a license plate with a provincial code, the new holder can maintain the
    license plate or he can re-license the vehicle, but this rarely happens.
  • Spain will give owner data in a few cases. Owner data will only be given when a vehicle was left by the
    holder at an establishment for sale and had run down for sale. In the rest of cases, Spain will not give
    any owner data.
  • The vehicle data shown will always be current. However, Spain will give error “111. Information not
    disclosed” if the vehicle is stolen, scrapped, the plate is stolen or outdated, on reference date-time.
  • The owner/holderinformation shown will be in general the current data or the last data known. Error
    111 will be displayed if the reference date/time data refers to a previous holder. Before the end of
    year 2014, the Spanish application will be able to display historical data.
  • The following vehicles are stored in the Spanish register: cars, trailers, trucks, vans, buses,
    motorcycles, special vehicles (agricultural vehicles, work vehicles, firefighters vehicles…).
  • The following types of license plates are stored in the Spanish register: normal (taxis also use normal
    plates), trailer, touristic, temporary, historic, special vehicles.

Additional Information:

  • Spain will not send mCBE requests, only sCBE requests. They expect to send about 230.000 sCBE
    request per year.
  • Spain will answer CBEMultipleOHByRegNumAndDate requests every day between 00.00 and 08.00
    AM.
  • Spain will use all of the codes of traffic offences during the forthcoming exchange of information
    regarding the CBE Directive.

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