Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide for the issuing of driver cards, company cards and control cards for use with digital tachographs, which are tachographs complying with Annexes IB and II to the Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport, and for the replacement of cards which expire, are damaged, malfunction, are lost or are stolen.
The Regulations also provide for the payment of specified fees in respect of driver cards, which are held by drivers of vehicles required to be fitted with digital tachographs by the Community Recording Equipment Regulation, and company cards, which are held by the operators of such vehicles.
No fees are payable in respect of workshop cards or control cards.
A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been produced and may be obtained from the Department of the Environment’s website at www.doeni.gov.uk/roadsafety.