Already in 2019, Russian drivers will begin to be issued new license plates. Motorcycle license plates will become one and a half times smaller in size, and signs for Japanese right-hand drive cars will be shaped like a square. It is planned to introduce special numbers for mopeds, as well as for classic and sports cars. The corresponding GOST was approved by order of Rosstandart and comes into force on January 1.

From January 1, 2019, in accordance with Rosstandart order 555-st, a new GOST “State registration signs for vehicles” will come into effect. The development of the document began in 2016 on the initiative of the Scientific Center for Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

We were able to familiarize ourselves with the text of the document, which introduces ten new types of registration plates. Thus, reduced-sized numbers will be available for motorcyclists: 190 by 145 mm (instead of the current 245 by 160 mm). Foreign motorcycles (there are an order of magnitude more of them than domestic ones) have a small area for the number – the Russian state sign simply does not fit on it. The old GOST of 1993 did not take this into account. Bikers have to use adapters; without them, the wind can tear off the number at speed.

There will also be numbers designed for the rear platforms of Japanese and American cars with a non-standard mounting location. We are talking about cars imported into the Russian Federation “gray”, and not through dealers. In 2009, the import of such cars decreased sharply as a result of the introduction of protective duties. However, according to the Autostat agency, in the Russian Federation the share of cars, for example, with right-hand drive is 8.2% (4.1 million vehicles). There is no exact data for the “Americans”. Many of these cars have a square rear platform, and car owners, like bikers, have to use home-made adapters or bend the standard rectangular number plate (its size is 520 by 112 mm). The size of the new state signs is 290 by 170 mm.

It is necessary to develop technical conditions for the application of GOST, explained Petr Shlyakhin, a member of the technical committee “Road Safety” under Rosstandart, deputy chairman of the classic cars committee of the Russian Automobile Federation. “We need drawings with more precise parameters – for example, the distance between symbols,” he explained. “I am sure that the Ministry of Internal Affairs will develop them by January 1.” After this, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will begin purchasing new license plates from manufacturers through tenders. This is usually done by a special police structure – the Special Purpose Center for Road Safety. Kommersant’s source says that first we need to exhaust the supply of numbers in the old format, which may take several months.

In the meantime, the standard introduces several more room types. For the first time, special state signs for mopeds are appearing: they will be the same size as motorcycle signs (190 by 145 mm), but with a different set of letters and numbers – MM55AA77RUS (the structure of a motorcycle sign, remember, is 1133AA77RUS). The new type of license plates is intended for owners of so-called maxi-scooters: they are not full-fledged motorcycles, but are equipped with engines larger than 50 cc. see. The traffic police has no plans to register traditional mopeds and scooters (with small engines and a speed limit of 50 km/h). But there will be special motorcycle license plates on a red background for employees of foreign diplomatic missions, as well as signs for ATVs.

Retro and sports cars will also receive their own badges. Their main difference is the letters “K” and “C”, separated by a line from the other characters. So, for example, the number for the classic 21st Volga may look like this: K MM97677RUS; for a rally participant – C MM97677RUS. “Classics” and sports cars received not one, but three standard sizes of signs,” notes Pyotr Shlyakhin. “For example, owners of GAZ-69 and Moskvich will be able to use the rear two-line number for the “classic” in the space allocated for the Soviet number ” The Russian Automobile Federation has long been insisting on the introduction of such license plates: they believe that in the future there will be a need for special rules for the movement of such vehicles. This, in turn, requires special registration rules, explained Pyotr Shlyakhin.

A number of innovations are, at first glance, technical in nature. Thus, GOST regulates that each number plate must have a unique 12-digit manufacturer code. He will tell the police where, by whom, when the state sign was produced and where it was sold. In addition, GOST has lifted the ban on drilling additional holes in the sign: it has only been clarified that they should not affect the symbols, flag and RUS code.

During the development of the standard, experts suggested thinking about license plates for electric vehicles (with the letter “E”), bicycle license plates, and the use of new German fonts. But these ideas were abandoned for various reasons.

The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Construction, Vyacheslav Lysakov, supported the idea of ​​special license plates for the “Japanese” and “Americans.” “Despite the duties, the import of such cars continues, albeit in small quantities,” he says. “But we cannot ignore the needs of the owners of already purchased cars. You can’t drive around with bent license plates forever. This standard has been needed for a long time.”

The general director of the Simikon company (manufacturer of Kordon traffic cameras), Ilya Barsky, called the standard a reasonable idea. “You just have to add new shapes to the list recognized by the cameras, it’s not difficult,” he says. At the same time, he noted that there are no problems with cameras recognizing curved license plates: “We have a significant number of devices in the Far East, and neither technical support nor customers have ever complained.” The Recognition Technologies company (manufacturer of Avtouragan cameras) also noted that curved signs on the “Japanese” systems are recognized without problems.

Video: New license plates will please owners of right-handed cars – Russia 24

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