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Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 February 2014 on tachographs in road transport, repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport (Text with EEA relevance)
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Visual instruments showing:
distance travelled (distance recorder),
speed (speedometer),
time (clock).
Recording instruments comprising:
a recorder of the distance travelled,
a speed recorder,
one or more time recorders satisfying the requirements laid down in point (c)(4).
A means of marking showing on the record sheet individually:
each opening of the case containing that record sheet,
for electronic recording equipment, as defined in point 7 of the first paragraph of Part II, any interruption exceeding 100 milliseconds in the power supply of the recording equipment (except lighting), not later than at switching-on the power supply again,
for electronic recording equipment, as defined in point 7 of the first paragraph of Part II, any interruption exceeding 100 milliseconds in the power supply of the distance and speed sensor and any interruption in the signal lead to the distance and speed sensor.
The equipment must be submitted for approval complete with any such additional devices.
The distances travelled may be measured and recorded either:
so as to include both forward and reverse movement, or
so as to include only forward movement.
Any recording of reversing movements must on no account affect the clarity and accuracy of the other recordings.
The time indicator must be visible from outside the equipment and must give a clear, plain and unambiguous reading.
the trace drawn by the stylus must be perpendicular to the average circumference (in the case of record sheets in disc form) or to the axis (in the case of record sheets in strip form) of the area reserved for speed recording,
the ratio between the radius of curvature of the trace drawn by the stylus and the width of the area reserved for speed recording must be not less than 2,4 to 1, whatever the form of the record sheet,
the markings on the time-scale must cross the recording area in a curve of the same radius as the trace drawn by the stylus. The spaces between the markings on the time-scale must represent a period not exceeding one hour.
close to the figure shown by the distance recorder, the unit of measurement of distance, indicated by the abbreviation ‘km’,
near the speed scale, the marking ‘km/h’,
the measurement range of the speedometer, in the form ‘Vmin … km/h, Vmax … km/h’. This marking is not necessary if it is shown on the descriptive plaque of the equipment.
However, these requirements shall not apply to recording equipment approved before 10 August 1970.
name and address of the manufacturer of the equipment,
manufacturer’s number and year of construction,
approval mark for the equipment type,
the constant of the equipment in the form ‘k = … rev/km’ or ‘k = … imp/km’,
optionally, the range of speed measurement, in the form indicated in point 1,
should the sensitivity of the instrument to the angle of inclination be capable of affecting the readings given by the equipment beyond the permitted tolerances, the permissible angle expressed as:
where α is the angle measured from the horizontal position of the front face (fitted the right way up) of the equipment for which the instrument is calibrated, while β and γ represent respectively the maximum permissible upward and downward deviations from the angle of calibration α.
distance travelled:
1 % more or less than the real distance, where that distance is at least one kilometre;
speed:
3 km/h more or less than the real speed;
time:
± two minutes per day with a maximum of 10 minutes per seven days in cases where the running period of the clock after rewinding is not less than that period.
distance travelled:
2 % more or less than the real distance, where that distance is at least one kilometre;
speed:
4 km/h more or less than the real speed;
time:
± two minutes per day, or
± 10 minutes per seven days.
distance travelled:
4 % more or less than the real distance, where that distance is at least one kilometre;
speed:
6 km/h more or less than the real speed;
time:
± two minutes per day, or
± 10 minutes per seven days.
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