vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/pt.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/pt.yml — Portugal (PRD-PLATES gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2).
+# plates/pt.yml — Portugal (the plates spec gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2).
 #
 # ONE INSTRUMENT CARRIES ALMOST THIS WHOLE FILE, and it is not the one the
 # secondary web cites. The Portuguese plate is governed by the REGULAMENTO DO
@@ -173,12 +173,20 @@ series:
         where the Anexo IV Modelo I drawing it replaces plainly draws one. The
         canonical printed form in `pattern` is therefore the GAP. `regex` still
         spells the position as the sanctioned separator-only class `[- ]`
-        (PRD-PLATES §2.8) because the instrument now prescribes millimetres and
+        (the plates spec §2.8) because the instrument now prescribes millimetres and
         no glyph, which is precisely the es-consular-cc-1999 situation: with no
         glyph mandated, both members of the emitted set are inside the grammar,
         so the class is `strict` rather than a widening. FLAGGED FOR THE
         VERIFIER: this reading rests on the statutory drawing plus a deletion,
         and a photograph of an issued plate would settle it in one look.
+        SETTLED 2026-08-03: it did. Commons "2020 Portugal license plate
+        example.jpg" (CC BY-SA 4.0) photographs issued AE 36 EM — no
+        separator glyph anywhere, tight intra-group spacing, a small clear
+        gap between the pairs whose measured proportion (~0.19 of the
+        character em) matches the Anexo V 20 mm chain. Independently
+        reported by the project owner from plates in the wild the same day.
+        The statutory reading holds; the printed form is the GAP, full stop.
+        Evidence: statutory + photographic-observed.
       progression: >-
         Nationally sequential and non-geographic, like every Portuguese series
         since 1937. The known anchor is the first number, AA-01-AA, so the two
@@ -576,7 +584,7 @@ series:
       body that assigns the CD/CC/FM prefixes and their per-mission numbering is
       the Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, not the IMT, and no MNE
       instrument was reached — so no mission decode table exists here and none
-      was invented. PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode tables at gate L4.
+      was invented. The plates spec puts diplomatic decode tables at gate L4.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # TEMPORARY IMPORT — the blue-character plate.
@@ -704,7 +712,7 @@ series:
         one, with black letters, digits, dashes and border on both. The yellow
         is recorded as the entry's background because ciclomotores are the
         dominant population; the white variant is a colour-only difference on
-        the same format and period, hence a note per PRD-PLATES §2.3 rather than
+        the same format and period, hence a note per the plates spec §2.3 rather than
         a second series.
     region_encoding: "câmara municipal — three-letter codes not enumerated by the instrument; no decode table authored"
     sources:
@@ -764,7 +772,7 @@ series:
           what the drawing — the thing a manufacturer builds from — labels, with
           the red confined to the class-letter field; the enacting sentence is
           preserved verbatim here so a verifier can overturn that choice with one
-          look at a photograph. PRD-PLATES §5.3: record disagreements, never
+          look at a photograph. The plates spec §5.3: record disagreements, never
           average them.
     region_encoding: none
     sources:

data/data/plates/ro.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ro.yml — Romania (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/ro.yml — Romania (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # WHAT IS PRIMARY HERE AND WHAT IS NOT.
 #
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #    23 of the Regulament prescribes "numărul de ordine, format din cifre arabe"
 #    and fixes NO NUMBER OF DIGITS. That is why Bucharest could lengthen its
 #    order number from two digits to three without any amendment, and it is why
-#    every standard series here carries a `regex_statutory` (PRD-PLATES §2.7)
+#    every standard series here carries a `regex_statutory` (the plates spec §2.7)
 #    that is genuinely wider than its `regex`: the issued grammar is two digits
 #    for counties and three for the capital, but the LEGAL bound is any number of
 #    Arabic numerals. Romania is the cleanest example of that tier in the dataset
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@
 #    145e and DIN 74069 — building to them is fine, their text is not
 #    redistributable, and in this pass neither was purchased or read. They are
 #    the reason every colour and every millimetre below is `secondary-wikipedia`
-#    with `hex_basis: observed`. This is the same posture PRD-PLATES §4 records
+#    with `hex_basis: observed`. This is the same posture the plates spec §4 records
 #    for SAE J686: NAMED, UNPINNED, never quoted.
 #
 # 5. ROMANIA'S EU BAND HAS A HARD DATE AND A SOFT ONE. Accession was 1 January
 #    2007, which is a treaty date and not in doubt. That the twelve-star band
 #    REPLACED the Romanian tricolour band on plates on or about that date is
 #    reported by a secondary and is tagged as such. The design change is modelled
-#    as a series boundary (PRD-PLATES §2.3, the same cut plates/it.yml makes at
+#    as a series boundary (the plates spec §2.3, the same cut plates/it.yml makes at
 #    1999), so each of the two territorial formats appears twice: once with the
 #    national band and once with the EU band.
 jurisdiction: ro
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ common:
       the Government. These are reservations INSIDE the ordinary serial space, so
       they are recorded here rather than authored as series: a reserved
       combination changes who holds the plate, not the format or the design, and
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes that a note and not a series.
+      the plates spec §2.3 makes that a note and not a series.
     not_encoded_because: >-
       The three restrictions above do not compose into a single sourced alphabet
       (Q excluded everywhere? only in the letter group? is the leading-I/O rule
@@ -196,14 +196,14 @@ common:
       phosphorescent holograms of the Romanian coat of arms running the length of
       the plate. The SERIAL is not reported to change.
     why_not_a_series: >-
-      A design change of that size WOULD be a series boundary under PRD-PLATES
+      A design change of that size WOULD be a series boundary under the plates spec
       §2.3, and the honest reason it is not authored as one is that the entire
       evidence for it is a single secondary summary with a month and no
       instrument. Authoring `ro-standard-2024` on that basis would put a
       confidently-dated series into the dataset on the weakest evidence in this
       file. It is recorded here instead, and named as the FIRST target for the
       Romanian verifier: find the instrument, and re-cut ro-standard-2007 at its
-      commencement date. The series-id contract (PRD-QUALITY I-5/I-6) makes that
+      commencement date. The series-id contract (the quality spec I-5/I-6) makes that
       re-cut cheap — a new id plus an alias — which is precisely why waiting is
       the cheap option and guessing is not.
     source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Romania  # the September 2024 security-feature generation. Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ series:
         evidence_tier: secondary-wikipedia
         notes: "see common.alphabet — the reported letter restrictions are recorded there and deliberately not encoded."
       separator_note: >-
-        Both printed gaps are written as optional emitted SPACEs (PRD-PLATES
+        Both printed gaps are written as optional emitted SPACEs (the plates spec
         §2.6). No separator GLYPH is prescribed by art. 23, which names three
         element groups and no punctuation between them.
       progression: >-
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       THE MOTORCYCLE PLATE — the ordinary county mark on a 240 x 130 mm two-row
       plate. Its own series rather than a variant because the dimensions differ
-      (PRD-PLATES §2.3), and `corroboration-only` because the size is sourced
+      (the plates spec §2.3), and `corroboration-only` because the size is sourced
       while the date is inherited. Romania does not appear to give motorcycles a
       distinct serial grammar, which is worth stating as a negative: unlike Italy,
       whose motorcycle plate had five digits where the car had three-plus-two,
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ series:
       stopped with the 1992 reform, but these plates remained VALID UNTIL 2000,
       so Romanian traffic ran both systems side by side for eight years and a
       photograph from the 1990s proves nothing about a vehicle's registration
-      date. Recorded as a period overlap with distinct notes, per PRD-PLATES
+      date. Recorded as a period overlap with distinct notes, per the plates spec
       §2.2, rather than as a clean cut.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ series:
           A TWO-PART NUMERIC DECODE: the first three digits are a country code
           identifying the sending state and the last three a rank or sequence
           within the mission, with 101 reported for an ambassador or head of
-          mission. The country-code table is NOT authored — PRD-PLATES puts
+          mission. The country-code table is NOT authored — the plates spec puts
           diplomatic decode tables at gate L4, and plates/fi.yml made the same
           call for the Finnish mission table. Note that this is a MISSION decode,
           not a geographic one, and it does not touch ro-counties.yml.
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ series:
       - "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Romania  # secondary-wikipedia: CD plus six digits in blue, three-digit country code and three-digit rank code, 101 for the head of mission. FORMAT + COLOUR. Accessed 2026-08-02"
     notes: >-
       THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS PLATE. Authored despite an unsourced start date
-      because PRD-PLATES gate L1 names diplomatic among the core classes, and
+      because the plates spec gate L1 names diplomatic among the core classes, and
       because the FORMAT and the DECODE MECHANISM are described well enough to be
       useful; the date is the part this file admits it does not have, in the
       period_note rather than in a footnote. A companion series TC — reported for
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ series:
 unmodelled_series:
   evidence_tier: secondary-wikipedia
   source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Romania  # every row below. Accessed 2026-08-02"
-  reason_not_modelled: "each lacks a defensible date, a determinate format, or both. PRD-PLATES §5.3 prefers the recorded gap."
+  reason_not_modelled: "each lacks a defensible date, a determinate format, or both. The plates spec §5.3 prefers the recorded gap."
   rows:
     - token: "long-term temporary plate"
       note: >-
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ unmodelled_series:
         Reported for public utilities, tractors, agricultural machinery, scooters
         and golf carts, valid only inside the issuing locality, on a yellow
         ground — and, in the source's own words, of NON-STANDARDISED format
-        varying by issuing authority. That is a species PRD-PLATES §2.2 cannot
+        varying by issuing authority. That is a species the plates spec §2.2 cannot
         represent as one series and should not: a format that varies by locality
         is a table of formats, not a format. Recorded as the shape of the problem
         for whoever attempts it.

data/data/plates/se.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/se.yml — Sweden (PRD-PLATES gate L1).
+# plates/se.yml — Sweden (the plates spec gate L1).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and class claim here comes from one of four
 # primary layers, and each series says which:
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 #
 # SEPARATOR POLICY: the printed gap between letter group and digit group is a
 # GAP, not a glyph — TSFS 2015:63 6 kap. 4 § says only "tre bokstäver till
-# vänster och tre siffror till höger". Per PRD-PLATES §2.6 that gap is written
+# vänster och tre siffror till höger". Per the plates spec §2.6 that gap is written
 # as the emitted SPACE in `pattern` and as an optional " ?" in every regex.
 #
 # REGEX POLICY: `format.regex` is the lint-round-trippable regex over the full
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 # dimensions, colours, the black frame and the left/right and top/bottom
 # arrangement of the character groups, and nothing else — no named font, no
 # character height, no stroke width, and no statutory Schriftmuster of the
-# German or Spanish kind. Per PRD-PLATES §6 the render layer therefore has no
+# German or Spanish kind. Per the plates spec §6 the render layer therefore has no
 # licensable font to clear and no drawing to derive from either; the schematic
 # fallback applies and the gap is recorded.
 jurisdiction: se
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ series:
       separator_note: >-
         The gap between letter group and digit group is a printed GAP with no
         glyph (TSFS 2015:63 6 kap. 4 §: "tre bokstäver till vänster och tre
-        siffror till höger"). Written as the emitted SPACE per PRD-PLATES §2.6.
+        siffror till höger"). Written as the emitted SPACE per the plates spec §2.6.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
       plate_variants:
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63k.pdf  # 6 kap. 2-5 §: the four plate shapes, which vehicle gets which, the layout and colours, the EU mark; accessed 2026-08-02"
     notes: >-
       THE SWEDISH STANDARD PLATE, first shape. PERIOD DISAGREEMENT, RECORDED
-      RATHER THAN AVERAGED (PRD-PLATES §5.3): Transportstyrelsen says "1972"
+      RATHER THAN AVERAGED (the plates spec §5.3): Transportstyrelsen says "1972"
       twice in its own words (2017-02-17: "Dagens system för registreringsnummer
       med tre bokstäver och tre siffror har funnits sedan 1972"; 2019-01-16:
       "Senaste gången registreringsnumren ändrades var 1972"), and the
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ series:
 
   # =========================================================================
   # MOTORCYCLE AND MOPED KLASS I — the two-row 170x150 plate. Same numbers,
-  # different plate, so a series of its own (PRD-PLATES §2.3 design limb).
+  # different plate, so a series of its own (the plates spec §2.3 design limb).
   # =========================================================================
   - id: se-motorcycle
     class: motorcycle
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       MOTORCYCLES AND MOPED KLASS I share ONE plate and one number system, so
       they are one series with two categories rather than two series: the
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 test (own series iff format OR design OR period differs)
+      the plates spec §2.3 test (own series iff format OR design OR period differs)
       separates nothing between them. period.start follows the standard series
       because the NUMBER is the same national number; the 170x150 plate itself
       is younger — Transportstyrelsen announced the reduction on 2013-05-08 and
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ series:
         släpslädar eller terrängsläp, bokstäverna 'LS'." Time-limited licences
         additionally carry the expiry date stamped into the plate. Neither can
         be expressed in a single `pattern` string — the same schema pressure
-        PRD-PLATES §2.2 records for Japan.
+        the plates spec §2.2 records for Japan.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
       plate_variants:
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ series:
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/se-diplomatic.yml"
     region_encoding_note: >-
       128 landskoder + 10 kategorikoder, both closed and primary. Held in a
-      _decode file rather than inline (PRD-PLATES §2.4) because 138 rows is well
+      _decode file rather than inline (the plates spec §2.4) because 138 rows is well
       past de.yml's Anlage-2 inline threshold.
     sources:
       - "https://www.transportstyrelsen.se/TSFS/TSFS%202015_63k.pdf  # 12 kap. 1 a § (definitions of landskod and kategorikod, added by TSFS 2025:33), 12 kap. 2 § (six characters, black on light blue reflective, black frame), 12 kap. 3 § (the 2+3+1 composition, one-row and two-row); 6 kap. 6 § (no EU mark, no VIN marking); accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ series:
           "Du får använda alla bokstäver i svenska alfabetet, A-Ö" — so Å, Ä and
           Ö ARE issued on personal plates, and they are OUTSIDE this dataset's
           serial alphabet (_meta/separators.yml: "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
-          0123456789" and nothing else). Per PRD-PLATES §2.6 that is "a schema
+          0123456789" and nothing else). Per the plates spec §2.6 that is "a schema
           amendment, not a data entry": the regexes here are therefore
           deliberately NARROWER than the issuing grammar in that one respect,
           which §2.7 confirms is still `strict`. A Swedish personal plate reading
@@ -897,7 +897,7 @@ series:
           "Det får finnas mellanrum mellan tecknen under förutsättning att
           teckenkombinationen inklusive mellanrum ryms på skylten. Ett mellanrum
           tar samma plats på skylten som ett tecken." So a space COUNTS toward
-          the 2-7 budget. It is still an emitted separator per PRD-PLATES §2.6
+          the 2-7 budget. It is still an emitted separator per the plates spec §2.6
           and is written as a bare literal inside an alternation, never inside a
           mixed character class (§2.8).
         forbidden_shapes: >-
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ series:
       admits Å, Ä and Ö, which this dataset's serial alphabet cannot spell; it
       treats O/0 and I/1 as THE SAME CHARACTER for allocation, which no regex
       can express; and it counts a SPACE as a character position while
-      PRD-PLATES §2.6 classifies space as a separator a lenient consumer may
+      the plates spec §2.6 classifies space as a separator a lenient consumer may
       delete — a consumer deriving a separator-free twin of this regex is
       therefore doing something semantically different here than everywhere
       else in the dataset. The character budget also grew: 2-6 under the 1988
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, trailer, machine]
     period: { start: 2009 }
     period_evidence: instrument-in-force
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): militärtrafikförordningen states the
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): militärtrafikförordningen states the
     # COLOURS and that the number is rendered in "gula siffror", and delegates
     # everything else — length, grouping, any leading letters — to Försvars-
     # makten's own föreskrifter, which were not reached in this pass. A 1-6

data/data/plates/si.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/si.yml — Slovenia (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/si.yml — Slovenia (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and class claim here is read from the Uradni
 # list Republike Slovenije, in the instruments' own published text, on
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 #    glyph, and all three are primary. Every `pattern` here prints it.
 #    Slovenia's specimen drawings render it as a raised dot; the dataset writes
 #    the hyphen the LAW names, because U+00B7 is in the forgiving set of
-#    plates/_meta/separators.yml but not the emitted set (PRD-PLATES §2.6).
+#    plates/_meta/separators.yml but not the emitted set (the plates spec §2.6).
 #
 # 3. THE CHARSET RULE IS THIRTY-FOUR YEARS OLD AND ALMOST UNCHANGED. 1992
 #    (15. člen): "se v registrski oznaki vozila ne uporablja črk O, Č, Š in Ž
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ common:
     artwork_risk: unresearched
     artwork_note: >-
       Fifty-eight municipal coats of arms, each protected under its own
-      municipal instrument and none assessed in this pass. PRD-PLATES §3
+      municipal instrument and none assessed in this pass. The plates spec §3
       applies: every series below carries `rendered: placeholder`.
     source: "https://www.uradni-list.si/glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/2011-01-2292  # 28. člen. Accessed 2026-08-02"
   alphabet:
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ common:
   font:
     name: null
     statutory_basis: "31. člen, in its entirety: 'Podrobnosti o obliki zapisa na registrski tablici so navedene v tehnični specifikaciji.' One sentence, delegating everything, to a document the pravilnik does not name, publish or date — and which 55. člen then makes the trigger for 31. člen's own application. The specimen drawings in Priloga VI are the only published glyph evidence and carry no measurements."
-    licence: "PRD-PLATES §6 applies unchanged: derive glyphs from the drawings, never from a third-party TTF. Slovenia is a WEAKER case than Germany for a public-domain argument because the operative document is a procurement specification rather than a statutory annex. Recorded gap."
+    licence: "The plates spec §6 applies unchanged: derive glyphs from the drawings, never from a third-party TTF. Slovenia is a WEAKER case than Germany for a public-domain argument because the operative document is a procurement specification rather than a statutory annex. Recorded gap."
     secondary_note: "en.wikipedia names the typeface as Helvetica. That is a secondary claim about a document this pass never saw, and it is recorded here rather than in any design block."
     secondary_evidence: secondary-wikipedia
     secondary_source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Slovenia  # 'Text in Helvetica typeface'. Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ common:
       federal system in 1991; authoring it in each national file would duplicate
       a single historical layer, give it two ids, and let the two copies drift
       apart under later correction. It belongs in ONE historical jurisdiction
-      file at gate L4 (PRD-PLATES §7 — "historical depth, the pre-2000 world"),
+      file at gate L4 (the plates spec §7 — "historical depth, the pre-2000 world"),
       not twice at L1. What is recorded in each national file is the HINGE, from
       that nation's own primary, so the L4 pass has two dated anchors to work
       from.
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ series:
         chosen marks on foreign-mission plates and on test plates.
       why_recall_only: >-
         The regex is deliberately wider than the issuing grammar and a match is
-        a shape hit only (PRD-PLATES §2.7). It does not enforce the
+        a shape hit only (the plates spec §2.7). It does not enforce the
         three-character floor, does not count the hyphen against the six-character
         budget, cannot express the O-excludes-0 rule, and cannot express
         "kombinacija znakov, ki jo omogoča prostor na tablici" — a physical-fit
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@ series:
         kombinacija je lahko tudi izbirna."
       recorded_conflict: >-
         THE TEXT AND THE DRAWING DISAGREE, AND THE DISAGREEMENT IS RECORDED
-        RATHER THAN RESOLVED (PRD-PLATES §5.3). 40. člen (1) says the mark is
+        RATHER THAN RESOLVED (the plates spec §5.3). 40. člen (1) says the mark is
         the ORDINARY four- or five-character combination, which by 30. člen (3)-(4)
         means one of nine enumerated arrangements. Risba št. 9 of Priloga VI
         shows the specimen "MV [grb] H1-001" — a letter followed by four digits,
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ series:
       first numeric group is a COUNTRY code assigned by the agency — neither is
       geographic in the si-regions.yml sense. The country-code table is not
       published in the pravilnik ("ki jo določi agencija") and was not obtained
-      from any primary: a RECORDED GAP, and PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode
+      from any primary: a RECORDED GAP, and the plates spec puts diplomatic decode
       tables at gate L4 in any case.
     sources:
       - "https://www.uradni-list.si/glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/2011-01-2292  # 39. člen (1)-(3), 28. člen (2), 35. člen (5) (no chosen marks on these plates)"

data/data/plates/sk.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/sk.yml — Slovakia (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/sk.yml — Slovakia (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # EVERY claim below is read from slov-lex.sk, the Slovak government's own legal
 # portal, in its OFFICIAL CONSOLIDATED PDFs. slov-lex publishes a dated version
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 #    č. 227/2006 Z. z. Čl. I bod 13 replaced the words "za pomlčkou" with "za
 #    štátnym znakom Slovenskej republiky" throughout. Every regex in this file
 #    therefore spells that position as the separator-only class `[- ]?`
-#    (PRD-PLATES §2.8): a hyphen is what the law once prescribed and what Slovak
+#    (the plates spec §2.8): a hyphen is what the law once prescribed and what Slovak
 #    text still commonly writes, a space is the printed gap, and neither is
 #    mandatory today.
 #
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 # the commonly-quoted "Czechoslovak plates expired on 1 January 2005" is right
 # but only became right by amendment. Both readings are recorded below. Neither
 # country file duplicates the other silently and neither drops the era; a shared
-# `cs-` file was rejected because PRD-PLATES §2.1 keys on ISO 3166-1 and CS is
+# `cs-` file was rejected because the plates spec §2.1 keys on ISO 3166-1 and CS is
 # withdrawn with no authority left to cite.
 #
 # WHAT THIS PASS COULD NOT ESTABLISH, recorded rather than filled:
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 #     colours quoted here come from the last instrument that stated them in
 #     words (vyhláška 225/2004 Z. z.) and from § 36 ods. 1 of vyhláška 9/2009
 #     as in force to 31 December 2022. Flagged per series.
-#   * WHICH MISSIONS HOLD WHICH EE/ZZ BLOCKS. PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode
+#   * WHICH MISSIONS HOLD WHICH EE/ZZ BLOCKS. The plates spec puts diplomatic decode
 #     tables at L4; none is authored.
 jurisdiction: sk
 authority:
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ common:
       90/1997 § 44 ods. 2 and vyhláška 225/2004 § 48 ods. 2 ("za pomlčkou") —
       and vyhláška č. 227/2006 Z. z. Čl. I bod 13 replaced those words with "za
       štátnym znakom Slovenskej republiky". Every regex here spells the position
-      `[- ]?`, the sanctioned separator-only class of PRD-PLATES §2.8, which
+      `[- ]?`, the sanctioned separator-only class of the plates spec §2.8, which
       accepts the historic hyphen, the modern printed gap, and the closed-up
       form Slovak registries and databases use. `pattern` prints a space for
       post-2006 series and a hyphen for pre-2006 ones, matching what each plate
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ common:
       geometry is the recorded gap here; between the two jurisdictions the
       coverage is complementary and neither is complete.
     licence: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §6: derive from published geometry, never from a third-party
+      the plates spec §6: derive from published geometry, never from a third-party
       TTF. With no Slovak glyph geometry published at all, a renderer must use
       the schematic fallback for this jurisdiction and record the substitution.
       No Slovak public-domain-of-statutes provision was researched — recorded gap.
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ common:
       keeping the same number.
     note: >-
       Modelled as a material option on the standard series rather than as a
-      separate series: PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes a variant its own series iff format,
+      separate series: The plates spec §2.3 makes a variant its own series iff format,
       design or period differs, and the illuminated plate shares all three
       (§ 35 ods. 6 gives it the same black-on-white and the same 52 x 11 cm).
     source: "https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/2009/8/ZZ_2009_8_20230101.pdf  # § 123 ods. 3, 9, 12, 13. Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ series:
       foreground_note: "'vypuklé' — embossed, not printed"
       border: { color: "#000000", hex_basis: observed, note: "§ 35 ods. 10: 'Tabuľka s evidenčným číslom má na okraji vylisovanú obvodovú drážku, ktorej farba je totožná s farbou písmen a číslic' — an embossed peripheral groove in the character colour, carrying security features. No width is given, unlike the Czech 4 mm." }
       band: { side: left, color: "#003399", content: eu-stars+SK, hex_basis: observed, geometry_note: "fully dimensioned — see common.euro_band.geometry" }
-      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, position: "between the first letter pair and the digits, in the separator position", content: "štátny znak Slovenskej republiky (the double cross on three hills)", dimensions: { h: 49, w: 38, unit: mm }, render_note: "PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule: the Slovak state arms are not licence-cleared in this pass. The millimetres ARE published (vyhláška 227/2006 Čl. I bod 21) and are recorded so a renderer that clears them needs no further research." }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, position: "between the first letter pair and the digits, in the separator position", content: "štátny znak Slovenskej republiky (the double cross on three hills)", dimensions: { h: 49, w: 38, unit: mm }, render_note: "The plates spec §3 placeholder rule: the Slovak state arms are not licence-cleared in this pass. The millimetres ARE published (vyhláška 227/2006 Čl. I bod 21) and are recorded so a renderer that clears them needs no further research." }
       material_options: ["light alloy", "illuminated polycarbonate/polyester blend"]
       rear_differs: false
       display: "front and rear on categories M and N and on goods L7e quadricycles; rear only (centre or left) on L1e-L6e, O, R, PS and multi-purpose L7e — § 35 ods. 11"
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ series:
       § 143h it inserted is headed "Prechodné ustanovenie k úpravám účinným od
       1. marca 2022", the fossil of an earlier plan that zákon č. 404/2021 Z. z.
       postponed. THE FORMAT DID NOT CHANGE, which is why this series and its
-      predecessor share a regex and are separated by MEANING alone: PRD-PLATES
+      predecessor share a regex and are separated by MEANING alone: The plates spec
       §2.3 makes a series its own iff format OR design OR period differs, and
       here it is the region_encoding — a semantic, machine-readable difference
       that a parse API must act on — plus the period. The pre-2023 plates were
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ series:
       regex: '\A(?:EL|EV)[- ]?\d{3}[A-Z]{2}\z'
       pattern_note: >-
         THE PATTERN SHOWS THE EV FORM AND THE REGEX CARRIES BOTH, for a schema
-        reason rather than a legal one: the human-pattern DSL of PRD-PLATES §2.2
+        reason rather than a legal one: the human-pattern DSL of the plates spec §2.2
         reserves L for "any letter", so a literal EL prefix cannot be spelled as a
         pattern at all without meaning "E followed by any letter". EV is equally
         canonical — § 35 ods. 7 offers the two as alternatives with no preference —
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ series:
       from the district system's own start rather than sourced. Flagged for the
       verifier as the first thing to check in this file. Modelled as its own
       series rather than a variant because the FORMAT differs — a reserved letter
-      at a fixed position is a grammar difference, and PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes that
+      at a fixed position is a grammar difference, and the plates spec §2.3 makes that
       a series.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ series:
           číslic" — which is why this series runs unbroken from 1997.
         block_allocation: >-
           NOT AUTHORED. Which mission holds which five-digit block is exactly the
-          decode PRD-PLATES defers to L4, and no instrument publishes it.
+          decode the plates spec defers to L4, and no instrument publishes it.
           Recorded gap.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
@@ -1307,8 +1307,8 @@ series:
           words. A small provision that captures the whole reform: when the
           prefix stopped meaning a place, it stopped being able to make a word.
         matching_note: >-
-          `matching: recall-only` (PRD-PLATES §2.7), and the test is the one the
-          PRD sets: is this regex WIDER than what the authority issues? It is.
+          `matching: recall-only` (the plates spec §2.7), and the test is the one the
+          the spec sets: is this regex WIDER than what the authority issues? It is.
           § 124 ods. 2 admits any five-character tail "iná ako je uvedená
           v odseku 1" — anything EXCEPT the ordinary three-digits-two-letters
           arrangement — and no anchored regex in this dialect can subtract one
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ series:
           code) and `regex` accepts all thirty-two combinations of five
           alphanumerics. A match is a shape hit. The alternative — three
           alternated branches inside one anchored regex — was rejected because
-          each branch would straddle the separator position and PRD-PLATES §2.8
+          each branch would straddle the separator position and the plates spec §2.8
           forbids mixing separator and serial characters in one class.
         strict_note: >-
           The three enumerated shapes are all letter-initial and never place a

data/data/plates/sm.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/sm.yml — San Marino (PRD-PLATES gate L1, microstates group).
+# plates/sm.yml — San Marino (the plates spec gate L1, microstates group).
 # DRAFT for verification. All primary text fetched from the Consiglio Grande e
 # Generale law archive (consigliograndeegenerale.sm), 2026-08-02.
 #
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ common:
     rule: >-
       The "stemma ufficiale" appears in relief on every ordinary plate, at the
       left. DD 132/2022 art. 2 binds it to the constitutional annex's
-      proportions and Pantones. PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder rule applies: the
+      proportions and Pantones. The plates spec §3's placeholder rule applies: the
       arms are a state emblem with no located clean licence, and the
       constitutional annex was not fetched.
   not_modelled:
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ series:
       THE CURRENT ORDINARY SERIES. Same letter+four-digit grammar as 1993, but a
       smaller FRONT plate (300x100 mm), a twentieth letter (U), and RAL 5017
       blue from 1 July 2023. Modelled as its own series because the design
-      changed, per PRD-PLATES §2.3. Overlaps sm-standard-1993 across the
+      changed, per the plates spec §2.3. Overlaps sm-standard-1993 across the
       2022-2023 run-off, which is genuine parallel issuance provided for by the
       decree itself. NOTE the motorcycle and moped series below are NOT split at
       2022, because their plate SIZE did not change — only character metrics and
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ series:
       separator_note: >-
         PRINTED WITH DOTS as "R.S.M.". U+002E FULL STOP is in
         _meta/separators.yml's FORGIVING set but not its EMITTED set, so
-        PRD-PLATES §2.6 forbids writing it; the pattern spells "RSM" undotted
+        the plates spec §2.6 forbids writing it; the pattern spells "RSM" undotted
         and a conformant consumer canonicalises a real "R.S.M. 123" to "RSM123",
         which the separator-free twin matches. The same limitation as the Swiss
         mid-height point.
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ series:
       Modelled as one continuous series across the 2022 redesign because the
       plate size did not change; the character metrics and the RAL 5017 colour
       are dated design facts inside it. Contrast the car series, which IS split,
-      because its front plate shrank. This is the PRD-PLATES §2.3 test producing
+      because its front plate shrank. This is the plates spec §2.3 test producing
       different answers on the same reform for different vehicle classes.
     sources:
       - "https://www.consigliograndeegenerale.sm/on-line/home/archivio-leggi-decreti-e-regolamenti/documento17021492.html  # Decreto 109/1993 art. 1: 165x165 mm, letter + three digits"
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ series:
       format_evidence: statutory
       separator_note: >-
         PRINTED WITH DOTS as "M.A.". As with the 1922 RSM series, U+002E is
-        forgiving-but-not-emitted under PRD-PLATES §2.6, so the pattern spells
+        forgiving-but-not-emitted under the plates spec §2.6, so the pattern spells
         "MA" undotted and a conformant consumer canonicalises correctly.
       progression: "Decreto 47/1990 art. 2: numbering adopted from 1010 for macchine agricole"
     design:
@@ -1104,7 +1104,7 @@ series:
           issued in green rather than blue — DD 22/2019 art. 2: "la serie
           alfanumerica speciale scelta ed il bordo perimetrale saranno di colore
           verde." A colour-only variant of the same format and period, so a
-          sub-entry here rather than its own series, per PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+          sub-entry here rather than its own series, per the plates spec §2.3.
     region_encoding: none
     notes: >-
       PERSONALIZED PLATES, from 2003. Priced at EUR 750 initially and EUR 900 a

data/data/plates/th.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/th.yml — Thailand (PRD-PLATES gate L3). DRAFT for verification.
+# plates/th.yml — Thailand (the plates spec gate L3). DRAFT for verification.
 #
 # EVERY size, layout, colour and class claim about the MOTOR-VEHICLE-ACT plates
 # in this file comes from one instrument, read verbatim from the Royal Gazette
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 #    this file models them as two blocks of series.
 #
 # 2. THE SERIAL IS PARTLY IN THAI SCRIPT, WHICH IS A GENUINE COLLISION WITH
-#    PRD-PLATES §2.6. The separator contract fixes the dataset-wide serial
+#    the plates spec §2.6. The separator contract fixes the dataset-wide serial
 #    alphabet at A-Z0-9 "and nothing else", and says in terms that a
 #    jurisdiction printing a glyph inside the serial "is a schema amendment,
 #    not a data entry". Thailand is that jurisdiction. The line taken here,
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 #        block the plate prints — which is what §2.6 permits us to spell — and
 #        every such series therefore carries `matching: recall-only`, because a
 #        bare digit regex is deliberately wider than the mark it belongs to.
-#      * `format.fields` (the PRD §2.2 Japan extension point) carries the WHOLE
+#      * `format.fields` (the spec §2.2 Japan extension point) carries the WHOLE
 #        composition, field by field, each with its script and its source.
 #      * `format.regex_native` carries the full Unicode-aware regex. It is NOT
 #        one of the three lint-checked regex keys (`regex`, `regex_strict`,
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ charset_defaults:
     source: "https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/A/045/6.PDF  # ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ก) ๕) and (ข) ๔) — the delegation"
 
 # The pattern/regex policy, stated once and referenced by every Thai-script
-# series (PRD-PLATES §2.6 collision — see header fact 2).
+# series (the plates spec §2.6 collision — see header fact 2).
 regex_policy:
   thai_script_series: >-
     `format.pattern` is the ARABIC-NUMERAL BLOCK ONLY ("9999" = the registration
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ series:
   # in the legal vehicle class, which is exactly why the regulation writes the
   # sizes once in ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ก) and the colours eight times in ข้อ ๓ (๒).
   # Because DESIGN differs (background and character colour), each is its own
-  # SERIES under PRD-PLATES §2.3 and not a colour sub-entry.
+  # SERIES under the plates spec §2.3 and not a colour sub-entry.
   # =========================================================================
 
   - id: th-private-car-2011
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ series:
         `regex_native`, and the file header, fact 2.
       regex_native: '\A[1-9]?[ก-ฮ]{2}\s?\d{1,4}\z'
       regex_native_note: >-
-        Not lint-checked (PRD-PLATES §2.6 admits only A-Z0-9 in a serial). It
+        Not lint-checked (the plates spec §2.6 admits only A-Z0-9 in a serial). It
         covers ONE LINE — the province name of line 2 is a separate field. The
         letter positions are written as the whole Thai consonant range
         U+0E01-U+0E2E because the category-letter alphabet is delegated and
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ series:
           "ในแผ่นป้ายมีเครื่องหมายเป็นตัวอักษร ขส อยู่ภายในวงกลมอัดเป็นรอยดุนที่
           มุมล่างด้านขวาของแผ่นป้าย" — the letters ขส (the DLT's abbreviation)
           inside an embossed circle at the LOWER RIGHT corner, at a size the
-          Director-General fixes. PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies.
+          Director-General fixes. The plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies.
       border: { note: "ขอบแผ่นป้ายอัดเป็นรอยดุน — the plate edge is embossed; the border takes the character colour (ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ค))" }
       characters:
         line1_digit_min_h_mm: 58
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ series:
       PRIVATE PASSENGER VEHICLE of MORE than seven persons (รถยนต์นั่งส่วนบุคคล
       เกินเจ็ดคน) — vans and minibuses in private ownership. Identical format and
       size to the ordinary car plate; only the character colour differs, which
-      under PRD-PLATES §2.3 would make it a sub-entry — except that the
+      under the plates spec §2.3 would make it a sub-entry — except that the
       regulation treats it as a distinct legal vehicle class with its own
       colour rule, and the auction regulation of B.E. 2546 draws its own line at
       "more than seven but not more than twelve", so it is carried as a series.
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ series:
       fields:
         - { name: corps_letter, section: left, line: 1, script: Thai, values: ["ท"], rule: "ข้อ ๓ (๑) (ค) ๓) ก): 'รถยนต์ของบุคคลในคณะผู้แทนทางการทูต ให้ใช้อักษร ท'" }
         - { name: country_code, section: left, line: 2, script: "Arabic numerals", values: "a code standing for the country or the international organisation or UN specialised agency stationed in Thailand — the code list is not in the regulation" }
-        - { name: separator_bar, section: middle, note: "ขีดตามทางยาว, 1.1 cm wide x 4 cm long, embossed; a printed SEPARATOR, spelled '-' under PRD-PLATES §2.6" }
+        - { name: separator_bar, section: middle, note: "ขีดตามทางยาว, 1.1 cm wide x 4 cm long, embossed; a printed SEPARATOR, spelled '-' under the plates spec §2.6" }
         - { name: registration_number, section: right, script: "Arabic numerals", values: "1 to 9999 (หมายเลขทะเบียนให้เริ่มตั้งแต่ ๑ ถึง ๙๙๙๙)" }
     design:
       plate: { w: 387, h: 110, unit: mm }
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ series:
           สำหรับรถยนต์ของเจ้าพนักงานกงสุลกิตติมศักดิ์ ให้พื้นแผ่นป้ายใช้สีเทา
           สะท้อนแสง โดยให้ตัวอักษร ตัวเลข และขีดใช้สีดำ" — a retroreflective GREY
           ground with black characters, digits and bar. Colour-only variant of
-          the same format and period, so a sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+          the same format and period, so a sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3.
         sources:
           - "https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/A/045/6.PDF  # ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ซ) proviso"
     sources: