Central Artemian Registration Standard

The Central Artemian Registration Standard for Motorized Vehicles (often abbreviated to CARS) is an unilateral agreement on vehicle registration in various Artemian countries. The agreement standardizes road safety standards, allows viewing access of vehicle registration databases of other member states, and universalizes vehicle documentation.

History
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Street-legality
The agreements state that any vehicle registered in a member of CARS will be considered legal in all other member states. To ensure that the vehicles are truly, universal standards have been agreed upon to ensure road safety. These rules include (but are not limited to):
 * requirement of and rear-lights;
 * a functional bumper for pedestrians;
 * professionally mounted for vehicles going over 50km/h;
 * no needlessly extruding parts or items intended to damage/wound other road users;
 * and various other minor rules.

Under the standard registration, it is assumed that a vehicle abides to all the requirements. If a vehicle does not pass all requirements, but has to be made (temporary) street-legal, a special license can be issued. These vehicles will sport a special license plate and other markings, and fall outside of the travel agreement.

Sharing of Vehicle Data
Member states are to share vehicle databases with other members upon agreed conditions (such as border control, fines, etc.). As per agreement, both the database and print format are universal. The data provided has to be delivered in both and, and descriptive text has to be translated to various member-state languages.

In combination with the agreements on street-legality, this part of the agreement speeds up border control and reduces administrative work for authorities.

License plate standard
All full member states, as well as various observer states, have adopted the 'CARS-license plate'. These plates hold standards on where characters are placed and use a flag and unique country code to help identify the origin of the vehicle (and thus the licence).

Script key
To ensure transcription of the licence plate works in both Latin and Samot scripts, a key is made of how characters are transcribed.

Note that this process does not equal to translating the letters. Also, not all letters have to be in use for a member state.

Exception clauses
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Observer and partial agreements
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