Information on CBE service delivery the United Kingdom (GB)

Functional contact: operations.centre@dvla.gov.uk
Technical contact: operations.centre@dvla.gov.uk

Main characteristics of the British vehicle register:

  • In the UK the license plate is registered to the given vehicle.
  • The vehicle licence plates are divided into regions, but the plates will move with the vehicle, regardless of what region the vehicle moves into.
  • The database will store vehicles and their keepers. DVLA considers the keeper of the vehicle as being the one being responsible for the vehicle.
  • The database that is accessed will be updated every time a new keeper or address change happens. These act as a ‘trigger’, updating the database and keeping a historic archive, coinciding with date of the alleged offence.
  • The historic data is stored for the vehicle and the vehicle holder of the vehicle.
  • In UK it is possible to purchase a private plate for a vehicle. The history of the plate is traced through our database, and follows the vehicle. When a private plate is put allocated to a vehicle the vehicles original registration number becomes ‘void’. If the private plate gets moved from that vehicle, the voided (age related) registration mark becomes active again.
  • The types of plates that UK stores in its databases are: normal, private, service vehicles, taxis, fleets vehicles, military, however diplomatic and trader’s number plates are held on a separate database “INFORMATION NOT DISCLOSED” will be returned on an enquiry on a stolen vehicle.
  • UK does not store an element that would make possible to distinguish between Natural Persons or Legal entities.

Additional Information:

  • The UK will use the EUCARIS BatchProcessor for generating mCBE response messages.
  • The UK’s BatchProcessor will be scheduled daily between 00:00AM and 23:59 PM.
  • The UK will use CBE only for inbound requests. No outbound requests will be made from UK.

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