Diplomatic Plates
Vehicles by members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps and several international organizations enter the location of the embassy or the consulate State issued license plate on the model (Article 84 paragraph 4 and 86 VZV).
- Character "CD" on a green background:
- Official car of the diplomatic missions
- Motor vehicles of members of the diplomatic staff of the missions
- Characters "CC" on a green background:
- Official car, headed by a career consular officials
- Motor vehicles of biometrics
Separate ** suffix "CC" for a maximum of one car every honorary head of post of a consular post, which the Federal Council has given the exequatur. The vehicle pass shall in such cases, the words "approved CC characters."
- Character "CD" on a blue background:
Company car ** permanent missions or other representations to intergovernmental organizations, and motor vehicles of members of the diplomatic staff of the missions
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- Official car institutional beneficiaries as intergovernmental organizations, international institutions, secretariats or other established by an international treaty bodies, independent commissions, international courts, tribunals and other international bodies (Article 2 para 1 lit. A, b, i, j, k, l and m are the Host State Act), enjoy the privileges, immunities and facilities, as well as motor vehicles of the highest-ranking officials of the institutional beneficiaries who enjoy diplomatic status in Switzerland.
- Characters "AT" on a green background:
** Vehicles of members of the administrative and technical staff of diplomatic missions.
The characters "CD", "CC" and "AT" are followed by the Canton shortcuts and two numbers separated by a period, of which the second digit indicates the block and sending the first block is a sequence number for the vehicles of this state. The first numbers of the serial number are reserved for the head of the agency or organization and his deputies:
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