1.1

‘(f)   “calibration” means: updating or confirming vehicle parameters to be held in the data memory. Vehicle parameters include vehicle identification (VIN, VRN and registering Member State) and vehicle characteristics (w, k, l, tyre size, speed limiting device setting (if applicable), current UTC time, current odometer value);

Any update or confirmation of UTC time only, shall be considered as a time adjustment and not as a calibration, provided it does not contradict Requirement 256.

Calibrating a recording equipment requires the use of a workshop card;’

1.2

‘(l)   “company card” means: A tachograph card issued by the authorities of a Member State to the owner or holder of vehicles fitted with recording equipment;

The company card identifies the company and allows for displaying, downloading and printing of the data stored in the recording equipment which has been locked by this company or which has not been locked by any company.’

1.3

‘(s)   “downloading” means: Copying, together with the digital signature, of a part, or of a complete set of data files stored in the data memory of the vehicle or in the memory of the tachograph card, for which these data are necessary to establish compliance with the provisions set out in Regulation (EC) No. 561/2006.

Manufacturers of digital tachograph vehicle units and manufacturers of equipment designed and intended to download data files shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the downloading of such data can be performed with the minimum delay to transport undertakings or drivers.

Downloading may not alter or delete stored data. The downloading of the detailed speed file may not be necessary to establish compliance with Regulation (EC) No. 561/2006, but may be used for other purposes, such as accident investigation.’

1.4

‘Alternative ways of computing the continuous driving time and the cumulative break time may be used to replace these definitions if they have been made obsolete by updates in other relevant legislation’.

2.1

‘Requirement 001a The interface between motion sensors and vehicle units shall be compliant with ISO 16844-3:2004, Cor 1:2006’.

2.2

2.3

3.1

‘Requirement 019a To detect manipulation of motion data, information from the motion sensor shall be corroborated by vehicle motion information derived from one or more source(s) independent from the motion sensor.’

3.2

‘Requirement 028 UTC date and time shall be used for dating data inside the recording equipment (recordings, data exchange) and for all printouts specified in Appendix 4 “Printouts” ’

3.3

‘Requirement 029 In order to visualise the local time, it shall be possible to change the offset of the time displayed, in half hour steps. No other offsets than negative or positive multiples of half hours shall be allowed.’

3.4

3.5

‘Requirement 038 The first change of activity to REST or AVAILABILITY arising within 120 seconds of the automatic change to WORK due to the vehicle stop shall be assumed to have happened at the time of vehicle stop (therefore possibly cancelling the change to WORK).’

‘Requirement 041 Given a calendar minute, if DRIVING is registered as the activity of both the immediately preceding and immediately succeeding minute, the whole minute shall be regarded as DRIVING.’

‘Requirement 042 Given a calendar minute that is not regarded as DRIVING according to the previous requirement 041, the whole minute shall be regarded to be of the same type of activity as the longest continuous activity within the minute (or the latest of equally long activities).’

3.6

‘Requirement 050 It shall be possible to input places where daily work periods begin and/or end through commands in the menus. If more than one such input is done within one calendar minute, only the last begin place input and the last end place input done within that time shall be kept recorded.’

‘Requirement 50a Upon driver (or workshop) card insertion, and only at this time, the recording equipment shall allow manual entries of activities. It shall be possible to make manual entries, if required, at the first insertion of a previously unused driver (or workshop) card.

Manual entries of activities shall be performed using local time and date values of the time zone (UTC offset) currently set for the vehicle unit.

At driver or workshop card insertion the cardholder shall be reminded of:

It shall be possible to input activities with the following restrictions:

Activities shall not be allowed to overlap mutually in time.

The procedure for manual entries of activities shall include as many consecutive steps as necessary to set a type, a start time and an end time for each activity. For any part of the time period between last card withdrawal and current card insertion, the cardholder shall have the option not to declare any activity.

During the manual entries associated with card insertion and if applicable, the card holder shall have the opportunity to input:

If a location is entered, it shall be recorded in the relevant tachograph card.

Manual entries shall be interrupted if:

Additional interruptions are allowed, e.g. a timeout after a certain period of user inactivity. If manual entries are interrupted, the recording equipment shall validate any complete place and activity entries (having either unambiguous place and time, or activity type, begin time and end time) already made.

If a second driver or workshop card is inserted while manual entries of activities are in progress for a previously inserted card, the manual entries for this previous card shall be allowed to be completed before manual entries start for the second card.

The cardholder shall have the option to insert manual entries according to the following minimum procedure:

Enter activities manually, in chronological order, for the period last card withdrawal – current insertion.

Begin time of the first activity shall be set to card withdrawal time. For each subsequent entry, the start time shall be preset to immediately follow the end time of the previous entry. Activity type and end time shall be selected for each activity.

The procedure shall end when the end time of a manually entered activity equals the card insertion time. The recording equipment may then optionally allow the card holder to modify any activity manually entered, until validation by selection of a specific command. Thereafter, any such modification shall be forbidden.’

‘Requirement 50b The recording equipment shall allow the driver to enter, in real time, the following two specific conditions:

3.7

‘Requirement 065 This event shall be triggered for each over-speeding. This requirement shall apply only to vehicles falling within category M2, M3, N2 or N3, as defined in Annex II of Directive 2007/46/EC, establishing a framework for the approval of motor vehicles and their trailers’.

3.8

‘9.9 bis.    “Vehicle Motion Conflict” event

Requirement 067a This event shall also be triggered when a zero speed measurement is contradicted by motion information from at least one independent source for more than one uninterrupted minute.

Requirement 067b In cases where the vehicle unit can receive or elaborate speed values from external independent source of motion information, this event may also be triggered if such speed values significantly contradict those elaborated from the motion sensor speed signal for more than one minute’.

3.9

3.10

‘Requirement 104 The recording equipment shall record and store in its data memory the following data relevant to the 255 most recent company locks.

Data previously locked by a lock removed from memory due to the limit above, shall be treated as not locked’.

3.11

‘Requirement 109b The “Vehicle Motion Conflict” event shall not be stored on the driver and workshop cards.’

3.12

‘Requirement 114a The display shall support the characters specified in Appendix 1 Chapter 4 ‘Character sets’. The display may use simplified glyphs (e.g. accented characters may be displayed without accent, or lower case letters may be shown as upper case letters)’.

3.13

‘Requirement 121 When no other information needs to be displayed, the recording equipment shall display, by default, the following:

Information related to the driver:

3.14

‘Requirement 127 It shall be possible to display selectively on request:

Optional:

3.15

‘Requirement 133a The printer shall support the characters specified in Appendix 1 Chapter 4 “Character sets” ’.

3.16

‘Requirement 136 The printout paper used by the recording equipment shall bear the relevant type approval mark and an indication of the type(s) of recording equipment with which it may be used.’

3.17

‘Requirement 136a Printouts shall remain clearly legible and identifiable under normal conditions of storage, in terms of light intensity, humidity and temperature, for at least two years.

Requirement 136b The printout paper shall conform at least to the test specifications defined on the website of the laboratory appointed to carry out interoperability testing, as set out in Requirement 278.

Requirement 136c Any amendment or updating of the specifications described in the above paragraph shall only be made after the appointed laboratory has consulted the type approved digital tachograph vehicle unit manufacturer in conjunction with the type approval authorities’.

3.18

‘Requirement 141 The recording equipment shall warn the driver 15 minutes before and at the time of exceeding the maximum allowed continuous driving time’

3.19

‘Requirement 145 In the latter case it shall bear a “T” symbol.’

3.20

‘Requirement 161a Motion sensors shall either:

have a sensing element that is protected from, or immune to, magnetic fields.’

4.1

‘Delivery of security relevant parts of the recording equipment can be restricted if required during security certification’.

4.2

‘Requirement 243 Vehicle manufacturers or fitters shall activate the installed recording equipment at the latest before the vehicle is used in scope of Regulation (EC) No. 561/2006’.

4.3

‘Requirement 248 Installation shall be followed by a calibration. The first calibration may not necessarily include entry of the vehicle registration number (VRN), when it is not known by the approved workshop having to undertake this calibration. In these circumstances, it shall be possible, for the vehicle owner, and at this time only, to enter the VRN using his Company Card prior to using the vehicle in scope of Regulation (EC) No. 561/2006 (e.g by using commands through an appropriate menu structure of the vehicle unit's man-machine interface.) (1). Any update or confirmation of this entry shall only be possible using a Workshop Card’.

‘Requirement 249 After the recording equipment has been checked on installation, an installation plaque which is clearly visible and easily accessible shall be affixed onto the recording equipment. In cases where this is not possible, the plaque shall be affixed to the vehicle's “B” pillar so that it is clearly visible. For vehicles that do not have a “B” pillar, the installation plaque should be affixed to the doorframe on the driver's side of the vehicle and be clearly visible in all cases.

After every inspection by an approved fitter or workshop, a new plaque shall be affixed in place of the previous one’.

4.4

‘the date on which the characteristic coefficient of the vehicle and the effective circumference of the wheel tyres were measured’

4.5

‘Requirement 250a For M1 and N1 vehicles only, and which are fitted with an adaptor in conformity with Regulation (EC) No. 68/2009 (2), and where it is not possible to include all the information necessary, as described in Requirement 250, a second, additional, plaque may be used. In such cases, this additional plaque shall contain at least the last four indents described in Requirement 250.

This second, additional plaque, if used, shall be affixed next to or beside the first primary plaque described in Requirement 250, and shall have the same protection level. Furthermore the secondary plaque shall also bear the name, address or trade name of the approved fitter or workshop that carried out the installation, and the date of installation’.

5.1

The fourth indent is replaced by ‘— that the installation plaque, as defined by Requirement 250, and the descriptive plaque, as defined by Requirement 169, are affixed’ and the following indent is added: ‘— that there are no manipulation devices attached to the equipment’.

5.2

‘Requirement 257a If one of the events listed in Chapter III Section 9 (Detection of Events and/or Faults) is found to have occurred since the last inspection and is considered by tachograph manufacturers and/or national authorities as potentially putting the security of the equipment at risk, the workshop shall:

‘Requirement 257b Workshops shall keep traces in their inspection reports of any findings concerning broken seals or manipulations devices. These reports shall be kept by workshops for at least two years and made available to the Competent Authority whenever requested to do so’.

6.1

‘Requirement 268a Member States shall exchange data electronically in order to ensure the uniqueness of the tachograph Driver Card that they issue.

The competent authorities of Member States may also exchange data electronically when carrying out checks of driver cards at the roadside or at company premises in order to verify the uniqueness and status of the cards.’

7.1

‘Any vehicle unit manufacturer may ask for type approval of its component with any type of motion sensor, and vice versa, provided each component complies with Requirement 001a’.

7.2

‘Requirement 274a In the exceptional circumstance that the security certification authorities refuse to certify new equipment on the grounds of obsolescence of the security mechanisms, type approval shall continue to be granted only in this specific and exceptional circumstance, and when no alternative solution, compliant with the Regulation, exists’.

‘Requirement 274b In this circumstance the Member State concerned shall, without delay, inform the European Commission, which shall, within twelve calendar months of the grant of type approval, launch a procedure to ensure that the level of security is restored to its original levels’.

7.3

‘Requirement 275a Manufacturers shall provide the relevant samples of type approved products and associated documentation required by laboratories appointed to perform functional tests, and within one month of the request being made. Any costs resulting from this request shall be borne by the requesting entity. Laboratories shall treat all commercially sensitive information in confidence’.

7.4

‘Requirement 277a The functional certificate of any recording equipment component shall also indicate the type approval numbers of all other type approved compatible recording equipment components’.

7.5

‘Requirement 281 No interoperability tests shall be carried out by the laboratory for recording equipment or tachograph cards that have not been granted a security certificate and a functionality certificate, except in the exceptional circumstances described in Requirement 274a.’

8.1

8.2

8.3

8.4

8.5

8.6

8.7

8.8

9.1

‘PIC_001 The recording equipment may optionally use the following pictograms and pictogram combinations (or pictograms and combination similar enough to be unambiguously identifiable with these)’:

9.2

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10.1

10.2

‘3.1   Driver Activities from Card Daily Printout

10.3

‘Section 3.2   Driver Activities from daily VU printout

11.1

12.1

‘1.2.   References

ISO 16844-3:2004, Cor 1:2006 Road vehicles – Tachograph systems – Part 3: Motion sensor interface (with vehicle units)’.

12.2

12.3

‘ Functional Test (VU)

12.4

Functional Test (motion sensor)

12.5