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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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1.Tachographs, including external components, tachograph cards and record sheets shall fulfil stringent technical and other requirements such as to permit the proper implementation of this Regulation.
2.Tachographs and tachograph cards shall comply with the following requirements.
They shall:
record data related to the driver, driver activity and the vehicle which shall be accurate and reliable;
be secure, in particular guaranteeing the integrity and the origin of the source of data recorded by and retrieved from vehicle units and motion sensors;
be interoperable as between the various generations of vehicle units and tachograph cards;
allow for efficient verification of compliance with this Regulation and other applicable legal acts;
be user-friendly.
3.Digital tachographs shall record the following data:
(a)the distance travelled, and the speed of the vehicle;
(b)time measurement;
(c)position points as referred to in Article 8(1);
(d)the identity of the driver;
(e)the activity of the driver;
(f)control, calibration and tachograph repair data, including the identity of the workshop;
(g)events and faults.
4.Analogue tachographs shall record at least the data referred to in points (a), (b) and (e) of paragraph 3.
5.Access to the data stored in the tachograph and the tachograph card may be granted at all times to:
(a)the competent control authorities;
(b)the relevant transport undertaking so that it can comply with its legal obligations, in particular as set out in Articles 32 and 33.
6.The downloading of data shall be performed with the minimum of delay to transport undertakings or drivers.
7.Data recorded by the tachograph which may be transmitted in or out of the tachograph, whether wirelessly or electronically, shall be in the form of publicly available protocols as defined in open standards.
8.To ensure that tachographs and tachograph cards comply with the principles and requirements of this Regulation, and in particular of this Article, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, adopt detailed provisions necessary for the uniform application of this Article, in particular provisions which provide for the technical means of how to fulfil those requirements. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 42(3).
9.The detailed provisions referred to in paragraph 8 shall, where appropriate, be based on standards and shall guarantee interoperability and compatibility between the various generations of vehicle units and all tachograph cards.
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