The vehicle registration plates of Cyprus are composed of three letters and three digits (e.g. ABC 123).

A new law on vehicle registration plates came into force on 3 June 2013, altering the design.

Plates made before that date are white on the front of the vehicle and yellow on the rear, whereas new plates as of a few years ago, are white both on the front and the rear with 3 letters, and 3 numbers.

Following Cyprus' entry to the European Union in 2004, plates produced since have a blue band on the left edge with the Union's circle and stars in the top half and the country's international vehicle registration code CY in the bottom half and using German FE-Schrift as the typeface after 2013, replacing the DIN 1451 typeface previously in use as mandatory.

Formerly, they had the same format as the civilian vehicles, but used the code DL and the characters were written in red colour.

Composed of a two-digit code for the country (e.g. 29 for Russia or 49 for the Netherlands, followed by two letters (CD, CC or AT) and a serial number with up to three digits.

• ΛΔΧ - Λεωφορείο Δημοσίας Χρήσης (public service bus) for buses.

UNFICYP plates have a blue background and display the prefixes UN or UNF followed by three numerals.

[2] Sovereign Base Areas plates are prefixed SBAA followed by two digits, and have adopted the same new colour and typeface as the Republic of Cyprus.

The president's car does not have a number on its plate, it displays the coat of arms of Cyprus instead.

Cypriot National Guard plates are composed of an old version of the Greek flag followed by the letters ΕΦ and up to five digits.

Rental car plates have black signs on a red base, they show a prefix Z, followed by two letters and three digits.

Police and Fire Brigade number plates follow the same format, but with inversed colours, with white signs on a black base.

Previously, the presidential plate did not have a number, just the abbreviation of KKTCB (Turkish: Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Başkanı).