Personalised number plates for vehicles were introduced in Belgium in 2014 and have already brought in €15.3 million of income.
12,956 personalised Belgian plates are now in circulation – new figures released by mobility minister François Bellot.
When they launched three years ago, personalised plates cost €1,000. Since December 2015 their price has doubled to €2,000.
For the first year that the scheme existed, cars with personalised number plates were not recognised by some speed cameras equipped with automatic number plate recognition – allowing thousands of motorists to dodge fines for speeding. The loophole has since been fixed.