vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/es.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/es.yml — Spain (PRD-PLATES gate L0 pilot; PROVINCIAL-HISTORY REDATE
+# plates/es.yml — Spain (the plates spec gate L0 pilot; PROVINCIAL-HISTORY REDATE
 # PASS, 2026-08-02, to the L1 evidence standard).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour and letter-exclusion claim for the CURRENT series comes
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #     including the modern additions (decorative geometric designs permitted;
 #     ISO/IEC 30116:2016 OCR quality).
 #
-# This settles the "Spanish 2000 cutover" that PRD-PLATES §5.3 flags as a
+# This settles the "Spanish 2000 cutover" that the plates spec §5.3 flags as a
 # folklore-prone boundary: the instrument is dated, published and its entry
 # into force is stated by BOE itself as 17-09-2000. No averaging required.
 #
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ series:
         note: >-
           THE REAR PLATE ONLY is blue with white matte characters, for taxis and for
           hire-with-driver vehicles of up to nine seats. The front plate stays
-          white/black. Same serial, same period, so a sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3
+          white/black. Same serial, same period, so a sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3
           — but note this is a genuine front/rear ASYMMETRY, not a colour-only
           swap, and secondary sources routinely get it wrong by colouring both.
         sources:
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ series:
       2822/1998 instrument window) with the honest caveat that no 1971 primary was
       secured; the primary is now secured and the period is corrected. The id
       stays `es-provincial` (not `es-provincial-1971`) under the id contract
-      (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6): amend, never rename. Plates already issued remain
+      (the quality spec I-5/I-6): amend, never rename. Plates already issued remain
       valid indefinitely and are re-issued on request; RGV Art. 27.2 lets an owner
       swap a provincial plate for a national one on a change of province.
       REMAINING GAPS at point of use: (1) the instruments that switched GE->GI,
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ series:
       This era's lists differ per instrument (1907, 1918, 1926, 1934 art. 232,
       1971 art. 233): three-letter codes until at latest 1926, no Gran
       Canaria/Tenerife split in 1907, Sahara SH in the 1971 list. Historical
-      decode rows are L4 work (PRD-PLATES §7) — recorded gap.
+      decode rows are L4 work (the plates spec §7) — recorded gap.
     sources:
       - "https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE/1900/263/A01141-01142.pdf  # RD 17-09-1900 (Gaceta de Madrid 263, 20-09-1900, pp. 1141-1142), 'Reglamento para el servicio de coches automóviles por las carreteras': per-province authorization + 'En el Gobierno civil de cada provincia habrá un registro general de este servicio' (art. 6); vehicle inscriptions required but NO plate format prescribed. Accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://www.boe.es/gazeta/dias/1907/06/09/pdfs/GMD-1907-160.pdf  # RO 24-05-1907 (Gaceta 160, 09-06-1907): THE FIRST PLATE FORMAT — concl. 3.ª two plates, 'la contraseña de la provincia, y á continuación y separado por un guión el número de orden de la licencia', black on white; concl. 5.ª the first contraseña list (1-3 letters); concl. 6.ª dimensions. Its preamble states pre-1907 display was non-uniform ('exige uniformar el criterio'). Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ series:
       TEMPORARY PERMIT FOR COMPANIES, UNREGISTERED VEHICLES — prefix S. This is
       Spain's functional dealer/trade plate. Its own series and not a variant of the
       V plate below, because the statute assigns a DIFFERENT PREFIX LETTER, which is
-      a format difference (PRD-PLATES §2.3). CLASS CAVEAT: recorded as `dealer`
+      a format difference (the plates spec §2.3). CLASS CAVEAT: recorded as `dealer`
       because it is bound to a business rather than a vehicle; the statutory name is
       "permiso temporal para empresas".
 
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ series:
       CUERPO DIPLOMÁTICO — red ground, white characters. The mission-prefix DECODE
       TABLE is not authored: Anexo XVIII states the ASSIGNMENT RULE (alphabetical
       order of the Foreign Ministry's official diplomatic list) but not the resulting
-      codes, and that list was not fetched in this pass. PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic
+      codes, and that list was not fetched in this pass. The plates spec puts diplomatic
       decode tables at gate L4; this entry carries the mechanism so the table can be
       hung off it later without an id change.
 
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf  # Anexo XVIII II.B: MF, MMA and PME contraseñas"
     notes: >-
       CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FLEETS. PERIOD-ROT WARNING for the decode discipline
-      PRD-PLATES §9 calls out: MF (Ministerio de Fomento) and MMA (Ministerio de
+      the plates spec §9 calls out: MF (Ministerio de Fomento) and MMA (Ministerio de
       Medio Ambiente) name ministries that have since been reorganised and renamed,
       yet the consolidated Anexo XVIII still lists them. The codes are current law;
       the ministry names behind them are not current fact. Recorded as-enacted.

data/data/plates/fi.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/fi.yml — Finland (PRD-PLATES gate L1, EU/EEA slice). DRAFT for
+# plates/fi.yml — Finland (the plates spec gate L1, EU/EEA slice). DRAFT for
 # verification: researched by an Opus L1 researcher, never applied directly.
 #
 # THE FINNISH SOURCE CHAIN, AND WHY IT IS UNUSUALLY CLEAN
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 # type whether the hyphen is required ("tulee olla väliviiva") or forbidden
 # ("ei saa olla väliviivaa" — the two-row plates, where the groups sit on
 # separate lines instead). Patterns here always spell the canonical single-row
-# printed form with the hyphen (PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2); each design block
+# printed form with the hyphen (the plates spec §2.6 rule 2); each design block
 # records which sizes print two rows and therefore no hyphen at all. The rule is
 # old: A 1598/1995 § 36(5) already said "Rekisterikilvessä olevat numerot
 # erotetaan rekisterikilvessä olevista kirjaimista väliviivalla."
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ common:
     printed. On two-row plates the määräys forbids the hyphen outright, so the
     same mark is printed with a hyphen on a single-row plate and without one on
     a two-row plate. A separator-forgiving consumer collapses both to the same
-    canonical serial, which is exactly what PRD-PLATES §2.6 guarantees.
+    canonical serial, which is exactly what the plates spec §2.6 guarantees.
   allocation:
     rule: "A 162/2021 § 17(1), verbatim: 'Ajoneuvolle annettava 16 §:n mukainen rekisteritunnus määräytyy sattumanvaraisesti. Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto voi kuitenkin pyynnöstä antaa ajoneuvokohtaisen, hakemuksessa yksilöidyn rekisteritunnuksen (erityistunnus).'"
     consequence: "RANDOM allocation. No region, no era, no vehicle-class letter is derivable from a Finnish mark — only the letters/digits ARRANGEMENT and the plate colour carry information. § 17(3) adds that a vehicle whose plates are lost or stolen gets a NEW mark, so a Finnish mark is not even stable across the vehicle's life."
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ common:
       liitteiden 1-5 kirjasintyyppien mukaisia." Liitteet 1-5 are dimensioned
       vector drawings of the letters and numerals at 72 mm, 70 mm, 56 mm and
       35 mm; Liite 6 is the export plate's date numerals. Exactly the UK/DE/ES
-      pattern the EU dossier found (PRD-PLATES §6): the legal object is a
+      pattern the EU dossier found (the plates spec §6): the legal object is a
       drawing, not a licensable typeface, so the render layer derives glyphs
       from the drawing.
     annexes:
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ common:
       - "Liite 6: vientirekisteröidyn ajoneuvon voimassaoloaikaa ilmaisevien numeroiden kirjasintyyppi"
       - "Liite 7: siirtomerkin kirjasintyyppi"
     exception_flagged: >-
-      THE ONE EXCEPTION, AND IT MATTERS TO PRD-PLATES §6. The SIIRTOMERKKI
+      THE ONE EXCEPTION, AND IT MATTERS TO the plates spec §6. The SIIRTOMERKKI
       (transfer mark) is the one Finnish registration marking whose typeface is
       NOT a drawing: Traficom määräys §§ 5.1 and 5.2 say, verbatim, "Siirtomerkin
       kirjasintyyppi on Arial Narrow, bold/lihavoitu. Kirjasintyypin koko on
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ series:
           voi olla heijastava valkoinen tai heijastamaton musta", yet Traficom's
           own gallery labels the illustration "Perävaunun mustapohjainen kilpi
           -ei enää myönnetä" (no longer issued). Recorded as a colour-only
-          variant with the disagreement stated, per PRD-PLATES §5.3: the
+          variant with the disagreement stated, per the plates spec §5.3: the
           disagreement is not averaged away.
         sources:
           - "https://www.finlex.fi/api/media/authority-regulation/536142/mainPdf/main.pdf  # määräys § 3.2.2 permits white OR black"
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ series:
         hyphen outright ("Kirjainten ja numeroiden välissä ei saa olla
         väliviivaa"); Traficom's own gallery accordingly shows "10 TRF". The
         pattern spells the canonical single-row form with the hyphen per
-        PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2; a separator-forgiving consumer canonicalises
+        the plates spec §2.6 rule 2; a separator-forgiving consumer canonicalises
         both printings to the same serial.
     design:
       plate: { w: 165, h: 200, unit: mm }
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ series:
           BLACK-GROUND MOTORCYCLE PLATE, permitted by määräys § 3.3.2 in both the
           200 x 165 and 118 x 280 shapes, non-reflective per § 4.1.2, white mark
           and border per § 4.4. Colour-only variant of this series, so a
-          sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3. Traficom's gallery illustrates both
+          sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3. Traficom's gallery illustrates both
           ("Moottoripyörän mustapohjainen kilpi 200x165 mm" with 98-BBM, and
           "Moottoripyörän mustapohjainen matala kilpi 118x280 mm").
         sources:
@@ -863,7 +863,7 @@ series:
       foreground: "#000000"
       border: { color: "#000000" }
       band: { side: none, note: "§ 16(1)(2) grants the nationality sign only to L3e, L4e, L5e and L7e — mopeds (L1e) and light quadricycles (L6e) are excluded by omission" }
-      characters: { height_mm: 35, width_max_mm: 24, stroke_mm: 5, note: "määräys § 4.3's own body text says 'Mopon ja moottorikelkan rekisterikilven rekisteritunnuksen kirjainten ja numeroiden korkeuden tulee olla 35 mm ja leveyden korkeintaan 24 mm. Kirjainten ja numeroiden viivaleveyden tulee olla 5 mm', while Liite 8's table gives 70 mm at 9 mm for the same plate — a flat contradiction inside one instrument. 35 mm is recorded because two 70 mm rows cannot fit a 110 mm plate; the disagreement is recorded, not averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3)" }
+      characters: { height_mm: 35, width_max_mm: 24, stroke_mm: 5, note: "määräys § 4.3's own body text says 'Mopon ja moottorikelkan rekisterikilven rekisteritunnuksen kirjainten ja numeroiden korkeuden tulee olla 35 mm ja leveyden korkeintaan 24 mm. Kirjainten ja numeroiden viivaleveyden tulee olla 5 mm', while Liite 8's table gives 70 mm at 9 mm for the same plate — a flat contradiction inside one instrument. 35 mm is recorded because two 70 mm rows cannot fit a 110 mm plate; the disagreement is recorded, not averaged (the plates spec §5.3)" }
       layout: "two rows, no hyphen"
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ series:
           grammar and needs no strict twin: no leading-zero rule is published
           for a ministry-allocated diplomatic number, and inventing one was
           declined.
-      progression: "allocated by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, not by Traficom's random pool; Traficom issues the plates only on the Ministry's 'kilpisuositus' (plate recommendation). The mission-to-number mapping is not published and is NOT authored here (PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)."
+      progression: "allocated by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, not by Traficom's random pool; Traficom issues the plates only on the Ministry's 'kilpisuositus' (plate recommendation). The mission-to-number mapping is not published and is NOT authored here (the plates spec puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)."
     design:
       plate: { w: 397, h: 118, unit: mm }
       plate_variants:
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ series:
       fields_note: >-
         The plate additionally bears a two-number EXPIRY FIELD (month over year)
         which a single pattern string cannot express — the same schema pressure
-        PRD-PLATES §2.2 records for Japan and de.yml records for the German
+        the plates spec §2.2 records for Japan and de.yml records for the German
         Kurzzeit- and Ausfuhrkennzeichen.
     design:
       plate: { w: 442, h: 118, unit: mm }
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ series:
     period: { start: 1996 }
     period_evidence: instrument-in-force
     binding: business
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): two primaries disagree on the ORDER of the
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): two primaries disagree on the ORDER of the
     # letter and the number, so the regex is the UNION of both orders and is by
     # construction wider than whatever the authority actually issues. A match is
     # a shape hit, never the claim that the string is a valid koenumero.
@@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ series:
         heijastavalla pohjalla" — letter BEFORE number, in the same word order
         the export clause uses for the unambiguous A-5544 shape. But Traficom's
         own plate gallery captions its koenumerokilpi illustration
-        "KOE 100-H" — number BEFORE letter. PRD-PLATES §5.3 forbids averaging a
+        "KOE 100-H" — number BEFORE letter. The plates spec §5.3 forbids averaging a
         disagreement, so the regex admits both orders and `matching` is
         `recall-only` until a verifier settles it. The pattern shows the
         decree's order because the statute outranks an image caption.
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ series:
         size_pt: 218
         note: >-
           THE ONE NAMED TYPEFACE IN FINNISH REGISTRATION LAW, and a
-          counter-example to PRD-PLATES §6's survey finding. Määräys § 5.1:
+          counter-example to the plates spec §6's survey finding. Määräys § 5.1:
           "Siirtomerkin kirjasintyyppi on Arial Narrow, bold/lihavoitu.
           Kirjasintyypin koko on 218p." § 5.2 gives 170p for the
           motorcycle/moped mark. Arial Narrow is a licensable Monotype

data/data/plates/fr.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/fr.yml — France (PRD-PLATES gate L1).
+# plates/fr.yml — France (the plates spec gate L1).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, period and class claim in this file is sourced to one
 # of five French primaries, all fetched 2026-08-02 and pinned per claim below:
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 #    a fourth item — "Le numéro d'immatriculation est reproduit sur chaque
 #    plaque d'immatriculation en caractères noirs sur fond rose" — and art. 3
 #    fixed its entry into force at 1 January 2026. Design differs, so per
-#    PRD-PLATES §2.3 the WW and W garage regimes are each TWO series, split at
+#    the plates spec §2.3 the WW and W garage regimes are each TWO series, split at
 #    2025/2026. A pink French plate cannot predate 2026; that is one of very
 #    few hard date signals a French plate carries.
 #
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ common:
       The three annexe-7 colours that matter most for the special series — the
       transit RED, the diplomatic JASPER GREEN and the diplomatic ORANGE — have
       NO coordinates anywhere in the 1996 arrêté's table. They are named and not
-      numbered, exactly as PRD-PLATES found for the German green and red plates.
+      numbered, exactly as the plates spec found for the German green and red plates.
       Their hexes below are marked `observed` and are the weakest colour claims
       in this file.
     source: "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000193190  # tableau des coordonnées trichromatiques (jour); art. 1 bis added 2026-01-01 exempting pink WW/W plates from the art. 1 homologation rule while binding them to the pink coordinates"
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ common:
     licence: >-
       NO NAMED TYPEFACE IS MANDATED — France is a third data point for the EU
       dossier's finding (UK prescribes a drawing, Germany a Schriftmuster,
-      France a written description). PRD-PLATES §6 therefore applies at its
+      France a written description). The plates spec §6 therefore applies at its
       cleanest here: the render layer derives glyphs from the statutory
       description, never from a third-party "plaque" TTF.
     source: "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000020237128  # art. 6"
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ series:
         background: "blue, not necessarily retroreflective"
         owner_chosen: true
         note: "art. 9; identical front and rear; reproduced only by homologated manufacturers"
-      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the identifiant territorial carries an official REGIONAL LOGO — 18 régions plus the collectivité européenne d'Alsace, none HELD. LICENCE ROUTE, corrected by reading art. 9 to its end: the logos are declared officiels ET LIBRES DE DROIT, and the article names their publisher — verbatim, 'Les logos des collectivités territoriales officiels et libres de droit, qui figurent sur le site internet du ministère de l intérieur : http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/, ne peuvent être reproduits sur les plaques d immatriculation que par le seul fabricant de plaques ou de matériau réfléchissant titulaire d homologation.' The reservation that follows is about reproducing them ON PLATES by makers without homologation — a manufacturing rule — and it sits after the words 'libres de droit'. So the blocker is ACQUIRING the official files, not their licence. PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule still applies until they are held and ledgered." }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the identifiant territorial carries an official REGIONAL LOGO — 18 régions plus the collectivité européenne d'Alsace, none HELD. LICENCE ROUTE, corrected by reading art. 9 to its end: the logos are declared officiels ET LIBRES DE DROIT, and the article names their publisher — verbatim, 'Les logos des collectivités territoriales officiels et libres de droit, qui figurent sur le site internet du ministère de l intérieur : http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/, ne peuvent être reproduits sur les plaques d immatriculation que par le seul fabricant de plaques ou de matériau réfléchissant titulaire d homologation.' The reservation that follows is about reproducing them ON PLATES by makers without homologation — a manufacturing rule — and it sits after the words 'libres de droit'. So the blocker is ACQUIRING the official files, not their licence. The plates spec §3 placeholder rule still applies until they are held and ledgered." }
       shape_note: "art. 5: the useful part is rectangular with the long side horizontal; the physical support must be symmetric about a vertical axis and may be slightly curved; a lower 'bavette' outside the useful part may carry only the seller's or fitter's references"
       background_pattern_rule: "art. 5: 'Les trames de fonds de plaques ne doivent pas comporter de caractères explicites (lettre ou symbole) ou ostentatoires' — decorative background textures are allowed, explicit letters or symbols in them are not"
       rear_differs: false
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ series:
           Trailers and semi-trailers below the mass threshold of art. R. 317-8 II
           carry a plate REPRODUCING the towing vehicle's number rather than one
           of their own, and it may be removable. Format-identical and
-          colour-identical, so a sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3 and not a series.
+          colour-identical, so a sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3 and not a series.
         sources:
           - "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000042266062  # art. R. 317-8 II"
     sources:
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ series:
         date, ceux qui ont été préalablement immatriculés suivant ce format
         conservent leur numéro d'immatriculation. Exemple : A 11 A."
       separator: " "
-      separator_note: "the arrêté specifies a SPACE here and hyphens for the definitive number — the only French series pair whose separators differ, and a clean illustration of why the dataset commits to a separator set (PRD-PLATES §2.6)"
+      separator_note: "the arrêté specifies a SPACE here and hyphens for the definitive number — the only French series pair whose separators differ, and a clean illustration of why the dataset commits to a separator set (the plates spec §2.6)"
     design:
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: spec }
       foreground: "#000000"
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ series:
       the start of the new plate annexes. This series overlaps
       fr-siv-cyclomoteur-2009 at 2015 by construction: the old numbers keep
       running while the new shape starts, which is exactly the parallel-issuance
-      case PRD-PLATES §2.2 sanctions.
+      case the plates spec §2.2 sanctions.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # DEALER — W garage. Two series, split by the 2026 pink plate.
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ series:
       that where a W number is used on an already-registered vehicle "ce numéro
       doit seul être utilisé" is the tell: the vehicle's own plates come off.
       This entry exists as a separate series from fr-wgarage-2026 solely because
-      the DESIGN changed on 1 January 2026 (PRD-PLATES §2.3); the number format
+      the DESIGN changed on 1 January 2026 (the plates spec §2.3); the number format
       is identical across the split. TRANSITIONAL GAP: no provision on plates
       ALREADY IN SERVICE on 1 January 2026 was located — whether a pre-2026 W
       garage plate had to be replaced with a pink one, and by when, is
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ series:
         certificate tax, and an X for a vehicle belonging to a person who does
         NOT enjoy fiscal or customs immunities. Examples: "105 CD 5 Z",
         "600 CD 20 X".
-      range_note: "the country group is 1-199 and the organisation group 400-499 (with the fixed 500, 600, 700 cases) — ranges the regex deliberately does NOT encode, because a numeric range is not a lexical constraint and PRD-PLATES keeps regexes lexical; the ranges are recorded here for the decode layer"
+      range_note: "the country group is 1-199 and the organisation group 400-499 (with the fixed 500, 600, 700 cases) — ranges the regex deliberately does NOT encode, because a numeric range is not a lexical constraint and the plates spec keeps regexes lexical; the ranges are recorded here for the decode layer"
     design:
       background: { color: "#0B5D3B", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed, hex_note: "annexe 7 item 2 says 'fond vert jaspe'; the 1996 colorimetric table has no green row at all, so this is a named colour with no coordinates anywhere in French law — observed, and flagged" }
       foreground: "#E87511"
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ series:
       band: { side: none, note: "SETTLED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY, and against the guess: French CD/CMD/C/K plates carry NO European symbol at all. Art. 8's duty is written for 'véhicules portant le numéro définitif', which a diplomatic number is not, and two independent photographs — 168 CD 66 in orange on jasper green, 431 K 12355 in white on jasper green — show a plain coloured face from rim to rim. Evidence: photographic-observed." }
       border_rule: { present: true, color: "as the characters", note: "both references show a thin rule inset about 2 mm from the rim in the character colour, orange on the CD plate and white on the K plate. In neither arrêté; photographic-observed." }
     region_encoding: none
-    region_encoding_note: "the leading 1-199 group is a COUNTRY code allocated by the Ministère des affaires étrangères and is NOT published in the arrêté — a diplomatic decode table is L4 work per PRD-PLATES §7 and is deliberately not authored here"
+    region_encoding_note: "the leading 1-199 group is a COUNTRY code allocated by the Ministère des affaires étrangères and is NOT published in the arrêté — a diplomatic decode table is L4 work per the plates spec §7 and is deliberately not authored here"
     sources:
       - "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000030801732  # annexe VII D.1 (CMD/CD compositions for ambassades, hautes personnalités and organisations internationales, plus the ESA/Guyane 973 completion) and D.4 (the Z and X suffixes)"
       - "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/article_lc/LEGIARTI000052974050  # annexe 7 item 2: 'Séries CMD, CD — Le numéro d'immatriculation est reproduit sur chaque plaque d'immatriculation en caractères orangés sur fond vert jaspe.'"
@@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, moped, trailer, semitrailer, tractor, machine]
     period: { start: 1984, end: 2009 }
     period_evidence: instrument-in-force
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7), and for an unusual reason: the composition
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7), and for an unusual reason: the composition
     # annexe of the governing instrument IS NOT PUBLISHED. Légifrance renders
     # annexe I of the arrêté du 5 novembre 1984 as the single line "(Annexe non
     # reproduite, voir JO du 22 décembre 1984 pages 11837 et suivantes". So the

data/data/plates/gb.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/gb.yml — United Kingdom (PRD-PLATES gate L1).
+# plates/gb.yml — United Kingdom (the plates spec gate L1).
 #
 # EVERY layout, colour, character-metric and class claim here comes from the
 # Road Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #    plate height, and neither does Schedule 2. The 520 x 111 mm oblong every
 #    British motorist can draw from memory is a BRITISH STANDARD dimension
 #    (BS AU 145e), and BS AU 145e is a copyrighted, paywalled BSI publication
-#    which PRD-PLATES § 6 permits us to build to and forbids us to reproduce.
+#    which the plates spec § 6 permits us to build to and forbids us to reproduce.
 #    Consequently `design.plate` is ABSENT from every series in this file and
 #    its absence is a sourced finding, not an omission. `design.characters`
 #    carries the metrics the Regulations do give.
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
 # DVLA memory-tag alphabet and the age-identifier value set from INF104, which
 # `regex` cannot carry because the lint generates "I", "Q" and "00".
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES § 2.6): a British mark prints NO separator glyph.
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec § 2.6): a British mark prints NO separator glyph.
 # What Table B line 5 prescribes is a GAP in millimetres — 33 mm between the
 # age identifier and the random letters on a current-style plate. The space in
 # every `pattern` here is the conventional textual rendering of that gap (and
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ common:
       first registered on or after 1.9.2001, nor on a replacement plate fitted
       on or after that date, "except where the vehicle was first registered
       before 1st January 1973". The DIAGRAMS THEMSELVES are line drawings in
-      Schedule 3 Part 2 and are not reproduced here (PRD-PLATES § 6: cite,
+      Schedule 3 Part 2 and are not reproduced here (the plates spec § 6: cite,
       never embed) — but note they are Crown-copyright material published
       inside a statutory instrument under OGL v3.0, not a paywalled standard.
     source: "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/schedule/3  # Sch 3 Part 1 Table A rows 1-9 verbatim; Part 2 diagram list; Part 3 Table B"
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ common:
       The Regulations NAME the colours and never number them. The chromaticity
       coordinates live in BS AU 145d/145e, which are copyrighted BSI documents
       (Sch 2 Part 1 marginal citation M5 even gives the ISBN and tells the
-      reader to buy a copy). Under PRD-PLATES § 6 we build to them and never
+      reader to buy a copy). Under the plates spec § 6 we build to them and never
       reproduce them, so every hex in this file is `hex_basis: observed` inside
       a statutorily named colour — the same posture plates/de.yml takes for
       "grünes Kennzeichen" and "rotes Kennzeichen".
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ common:
       and at least 7 mm below the mark. Para 8 permits a border that is
       permanent, non-retroreflecting, single-shade, at least 10 mm clear of any
       character, not above the other markings, and no more than 5 mm wide.
-    ip_note: "BS AU 145e is paywalled BSI copyright. PRD-PLATES § 6 applies: cite, build to, never redistribute. No dimension in this file is taken from it."
+    ip_note: "BS AU 145e is paywalled BSI copyright. The plates spec § 6 applies: cite, build to, never redistribute. No dimension in this file is taken from it."
     source: "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/561/schedule/2  # Sch 2 Part A1 paras 1, 5-8; Part 1 para 1 + M5; Part 2 para 1 + M6; Part 3 B.1 + M7"
   characters:
     current_style:
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ common:
     tolerance: "reg 12(2): character height may be +/- 1 mm; any other dimension +/- 0.5 mm"
     dossier_correction: >-
       THE SOURCE APPENDIX IS WRONG ON ONE NUMBER AND THIS FILE CORRECTS IT.
-      aux/research/plates-2026-07/plates-research-eu-intl.md § 2.6 tabulates
+      the EU research dossier § 2.6 tabulates
       "Character width (except 1 / I) ... Current style: 57". It is 50 mm.
       Table B line 1 ("Character width (all new registration plates from 1.9.01
       except replacement of 'classic' plates)") gives 50 mm at 79 mm height and
@@ -460,13 +460,13 @@ legacy_layouts_not_modelled: >-
   and dateless arrangements (1234 AB, 123 ABC, ABC 123, AB 1234) that Britain
   issued before 1963 and that survive in enormous numbers on personalised and
   historic vehicles. They are DELIBERATELY not authored as series in this L1
-  pass: PRD-PLATES scopes L1 at the current standard series plus ONE series
+  pass: The plates spec scopes L1 at the current standard series plus ONE series
   back, and no primary dating ANY of them was secured (the suffix system's
   1963 start and the prefix system's 1983 start are both folklore in this
   pass). Their SHAPES are nevertheless fully sourced in `common.layouts` above
   and are carried in the union regex of gb-historic-blacksilver, so a parse
   API can already recognise them as British without this file inventing a
-  period for them. Authoring them is L4 work (PRD-PLATES § 7, "Historical
+  period for them. Authoring them is L4 work (the plates spec § 7, "Historical
   depth (the pre-2000 world)").
 
 series:
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ series:
         S.I. 2001/561 nor its Schedules prescribe a plate width or height. Only
         characters, spacings and MINIMUM margins are regulated (reg 14,
         Table B). Plate sizes live in BS AU 145e, which is paywalled BSI
-        copyright (PRD-PLATES § 6).
+        copyright (the plates spec § 6).
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed, spec_note: "Sch 2 Part A1 para 2: black characters on a white background at the FRONT. Retroreflection per BS AU 145e (para 1)." }
       background_rear: { color: "#FFFF00", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed, spec_note: "Sch 2 Part A1 para 3: black characters on a yellow background at the BACK. The statute names 'yellow' and gives no coordinates." }
       foreground: "#000000"
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ series:
       BS AU 145d to BS AU 145e is NOT cut as a second series. The MARK did not
       change, the colours did not change and the character metrics did not
       change; what changed is the plate-manufacturing standard and the
-      supplier-marking and border rules. Under PRD-PLATES § 2.3 that is a
+      supplier-marking and border rules. Under the plates spec § 2.3 that is a
       specification change inside one design, so it is recorded in
       `design.spec_history` with both instruments cited. Splitting it would
       have created two series with byte-identical regexes and no consumer-
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ series:
       BRITISH MOTORCYCLES CARRY AN ORDINARY MARK ON AN EXTRAORDINARY PLATE.
       A separate series and not a variant because the design differs on four
       axes at once — rear-only, two-line-only, 64 mm characters and a second
-      statutory font drawing — which is exactly the PRD-PLATES § 2.3 test.
+      statutory font drawing — which is exactly the plates spec § 2.3 test.
       Two edge cases INF104 § 07 states and this series carries: a tricycle
       "made from four-wheeled bodies, such as saloon cars" may use EITHER the
       car or the motorcycle requirements, while a tricycle built from a
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ series:
       S.I. 2020/1276 came into force on 8 December 2020 and INF104 § 09 gives
       the same date, so this is `enabling-instrument`, not folklore. Its own
       series rather than a sub-entry of gb-standard-2001 because BOTH the
-      period and the design differ (PRD-PLATES § 2.3), and because the class
+      period and the design differ (the plates spec § 2.3), and because the class
       vocabulary's `electric` value would otherwise have no British home. The
       flash is OPTIONAL — a zero-emission vehicle without one is entirely
       lawful — so a green flash is evidence of a ZEV and its absence is
@@ -801,7 +801,7 @@ series:
 
   # =========================================================================
   # THE PREVIOUS STANDARD FORMAT — the PREFIX system. Table A row 2. This is
-  # the "one series back" PRD-PLATES L1 requires, and the one period claim in
+  # the "one series back" the plates spec L1 requires, and the one period claim in
   # this file that is NOT firmly dated at its start.
   # =========================================================================
   - id: gb-prefix-1984
@@ -1067,7 +1067,7 @@ series:
 
   # =========================================================================
   # HISTORIC — the black-and-silver regime. A DESIGN laid over whatever mark
-  # the vehicle already holds, so RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES § 2.7).
+  # the vehicle already holds, so RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec § 2.7).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: gb-historic-blacksilver
     class: historic
@@ -1150,7 +1150,7 @@ series:
         constructed on or before 1st January 1980" were INSERTED by S.I.
         2020/1363 reg 6 with effect from 1 January 2021.
       source_disagreement: >-
-        RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES § 5.3). INF104 § 07 says: "From April
+        RECORDED, NOT AVERAGED (the plates spec § 5.3). INF104 § 07 says: "From April
         2020 vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1980 are also able to display
         traditional 'black and white' number plates. You must: have applied to
         DVLA; be registered within the 'historic vehicles' tax class." The

data/data/plates/gr.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/gr.yml — Greece (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/gr.yml — Greece (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # THE CENTRAL FACT OF THIS JURISDICTION, AND IT IS A REGULATED ONE: a Greek
 # ordinary plate is spelled in GREEK CAPITALS, but only in the fourteen Greek
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 # be shown in capital Latin characters and Arabic numerals — on that reading,
 # issuing only the intersection of the two alphabets lets one physical plate
 # satisfy the domestic Greek script and the international requirement at once.
-# That is a plausible and widely repeated rationale, but PRD-PLATES §4 records
+# That is a plausible and widely repeated rationale, but the plates spec §4 records
 # the Vienna Convention annexes as UNPINNED in this program (UNECE returned
 # 403s), and Greece's own ratification status was not checked in this pass.
 # The instrument itself says only "common to the Greek and the Latin alphabet"
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 #   * ΥΑ 282069/2023 (ΦΕΚ Β' 5645 of 25-9-2023) and ΥΑ 178239/2024 (ΦΕΚ Β' 5096
 #     of 9-9-2024) — live amendments to the 1982 allocation annex.
 #
-# THE INSTRUMENT-DATE RULE, APPLIED TWICE AND HONESTLY (PRD-PLATES §5.3):
+# THE INSTRUMENT-DATE RULE, APPLIED TWICE AND HONESTLY (the plates spec §5.3):
 #
 #   1. The 2004 series does NOT start on 4-2-2004, the date of its instrument.
 #      Art. 9 states its own commencement: "Η ισχύς της απόφασης αυτής αρχίζει
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
 #    the specifications of decision 19800/1982 CONTINUES UNTIL STOCKS ARE
 #    EXHAUSTED.")
 # So pre-band plates went on being ISSUED, lawfully, for an undated period
-# after 1-5-2004. This is the PRD's "old stock issues on" case stated by the
+# after 1-5-2004. This is the spec's "old stock issues on" case stated by the
 # authority itself, and it is why the two standard series overlap at 2004.
 #
 # ============================================================================
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 #
 # Transliterating ΔΣ to "DS" would be a CHOICE, not a glyph identity: no Greek
 # diplomatic plate has ever shown the letters D and S, and a regex spelling
-# "DS" would be a fabricated string presented as a format. Per PRD-PLATES §2.6
+# "DS" would be a fabricated string presented as a format. Per the plates spec §2.6
 # ("a jurisdiction that prints a glyph inside a serial is a schema amendment,
 # not a data entry"), these series are REPORTED AS A GAP requiring a schema
 # decision — a `script:` field on the series plus a Greek-capital extension to
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ font_spec:                       # cited once; referenced by every design below
     Mittelschrift for the digits — and art. 2 para. 2 puts the euroband's "GR"
     in Engschrift as well. This is unusual and is easy to miss: most
     jurisdictions name one typeface for the whole serial. A render layer that
-    sets a Greek plate in a single cut is wrong by the instrument. PRD-PLATES
+    sets a Greek plate in a single cut is wrong by the instrument. The plates spec
     §6 applies to DIN 1451 itself: build to it, never redistribute its
     drawings; the statute names the standard rather than supplying a
     Schriftmuster, so the render layer needs a metrically-compatible free face
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ security_marking:
     Art. 2 para. 7 requires the marking to be integrated "έτσι ώστε να μην
     μπορεί να γίνει απομίμηση, αντικατάσταση, τροποποίηση" — so that imitation,
     substitution or alteration is impossible without changing the appearance of
-    the plate. PRD-PLATES §3 emblem rule applies: the render layer emits a
+    the plate. The plates spec §3 emblem rule applies: the render layer emits a
     neutral placeholder in both emblem slots.
   source: "https://www.dsanet.gr/Epikairothta/Nomothesia/yaoik4700-330_04.htm  # art. 2 paras. 7 and 8; art. 3 para. 2(δ) places the embossed seal on the hyphen"
 
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ series:
           white. That last detail is stated in art. 2 para. 2 and is routinely
           drawn wrong.
       emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "two distinct emblems — the printed security-marking εθνόσημο and the embossed state seal; see the file-level security_marking block" }
-      font: { name: "DIN 1451 Teil 4", note: "see file-level font_spec — Engschrift for letters, Mittelschrift for digits", license: "standards document; build to it, never redistribute (PRD-PLATES §6)" }
+      font: { name: "DIN 1451 Teil 4", note: "see file-level font_spec — Engschrift for letters, Mittelschrift for digits", license: "standards document; build to it, never redistribute (the plates spec §6)" }
       rear_differs: false
       tolerances: { element_sizes: 0.5, overall: 1.0, other: 1.0, unit: mm, note: "art. 2 paras. 12-14" }
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/gr-prefectures.yml"
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ series:
           characters on a WHITE retroreflective ground for private cars,
           motorcycles and trailers, and on a YELLOW retroreflective ground for
           public-use cars. Same format, same period, colour-only difference,
-          therefore a sub-entry and not its own series (PRD-PLATES §2.3).
+          therefore a sub-entry and not its own series (the plates spec §2.3).
           CLASS CAVEAT, and it matters: Δ.Χ. is BROADER THAN `taxi`. It is the
           whole public-use category — taxis, hire cars, and the licensed
           haulage and bus fleets whose reserved prefixes (ΤΑ, ΕΚ, ΙΑ, ΝΧ ->
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ series:
       GREEK MOTORCYCLE PLATE — 280 x 210 mm, nearly square, two rows. It is NOT
       a size variant of the car plate and is not modelled as one, because the
       DIGIT COUNT differs (three, not four): that is a format difference and
-      therefore its own series under PRD-PLATES §2.3. Worth stating for a parse
+      therefore its own series under the plates spec §2.3. Worth stating for a parse
       API: a three-letter/three-digit Greek string is a motorcycle, and a
       three-letter/four-digit one is not — the digit count is the only
       discriminator in the string, and it is reliable because both are fixed by
@@ -565,14 +565,14 @@ series:
       self-governing units altogether while the plate codes kept their
       prefecture names. Decoding a 1980s or 1990s Greek plate through the
       current table will therefore be right often and wrong silently. Historic
-      decode rows are L4 work (PRD-PLATES §7) — recorded gap.
+      decode rows are L4 work (the plates spec §7) — recorded gap.
     sources:
       - "https://www.e-nomothesia.gr/index.php/pinakides-kuklophorias/ya-19800-1982.html  # ΥΑ 19800/1982 «Πινακίδες αριθμού κυκλοφορίας αυτοκινήτων οχημάτων και ρυμουλκουμένων», ΦΕΚ Β' 455/1-7-1982 — the instrument's IDENTITY, title and gazette reference. Its TEXT is paywalled and was NOT read; every claim in this entry that depends on the text is marked. Accessed 2026-08-02"
       - "https://www.dsanet.gr/Epikairothta/Nomothesia/yaoik4700-330_04.htm  # ΥΑ οικ. 4700/330/2004 art. 9: repeals paragraphs Α, Β, ΙΑ, ΙΓ, ΙΕ and ΙΣΤ of Chapter Ι of the 1982 decision as regards state plates for cars, trailers and motorcycles, commences 1-5-2004, and expressly continues issuance of 1982-specification plates until stocks are exhausted — i.e. this series' END, dated, from the instrument that ended it"
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Greece  # secondary-wikipedia: the first-issue date of the three-letter format, given as 1983-1984, which DIVERGES from the 1982 instrument date recorded here. Revision 1367180219 of 2026-08-01. Recorded, not averaged"
     notes: >-
       THE PRE-EUROBAND THREE-LETTER SERIES. PERIOD HONESTY, stated at point of
-      use, because this is exactly the boundary PRD-PLATES §5.3 warns about.
+      use, because this is exactly the boundary the plates spec §5.3 warns about.
       START: ΥΑ 19800/1982 was published in ΦΕΚ Β' 455 on 1-7-1982 and is the
       instrument that frames this system, but ITS TEXT WAS NOT OBTAINED, so its
       own commencement clause is unknown and it may contain a delayed or
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ series:
       does NOT point it at plates/_decode/gr-prefectures.yml, because that table
       is the CURRENT allocation and there is no evidence the 1972 codes survived
       into it unchanged. Pointing a 1972 plate at a 2004 table would be the
-      French-SIV error PRD-PLATES §2.4 records. Recorded gap.
+      French-SIV error the plates spec §2.4 records. Recorded gap.
     sources:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Greece  # secondary-wikipedia: two letters + four digits, prefecture letters introduced 1972, superseded by the three-letter format in the mid-1980s. Revision 1367180219 of 2026-08-01T14:31:31Z"
       - "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%BF%CF%87%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1%CF%82  # secondary-wikipedia: the same era given as 1972-1984, corroborating the end but note the two articles differ (see notes)"
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ series:
       being issued. PRE-1972 GREECE IS NOT MODELLED: the purely numeric eras
       (reported as 1911-1954 and 1956-1972) and the short 1954-1956
       letter-and-number era have no instrument, no reliable format and no
-      colour source here, and pre-2000 depth is L4 work under PRD-PLATES §7.
+      colour source here, and pre-2000 depth is L4 work under the plates spec §7.
       Recorded as a deliberate gap rather than authored from folklore.
 
   # =========================================================================