High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The standard Romanian license plate consists of a blue vertical strip (the European strip) on the left side of the plate displaying the 12 stars of the European Union and the country code of Romania (RO), always followed on a white surface, using black font, by the county code and a combination of two digits and three capital letters. All numbers issued before January 1, 2007 used the flag of Romania instead of the 12 European stars.