Drivers Hours and Tachograph Legislation
- Technical Specifications of Tachographs
- Analogue Amendments
- Digital Amendments
- Drivers Hours
- The Drivers Hours Manuals
Please find below a list of relevant legislation on analogue and digital tachographs. All links are to specific sections on the Europe Online web site.
Technical Specifications of Tachographs
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3821/85
20 December 1985
On recording equipment in road transport. This is the core of our current requirements for the fitment and use of tachographs, and the technical specification of the tachograph.
Analogue Amendments
The following regulations are amendments to Reg 3821/85, and brought in the need for diagnostics, armoured cables etc.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3314/90
16 November 1990
Adapting to technical progress Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport. Introduced the requirement for marks in the chart indicating disconnection of the power or the speed signal.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3688/92
21 December 1992
Adapting to technical progress Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport. Introduced the requirement for armoured speed sender cable.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2479/95
25 October 1995
Adapting to technical progress Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport. Introduced the possibility of protecting the signal from the speed sender by methods other than armoured cable, e.g. signal encryption.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1056/97
11 June 1997
Adapting to technical progress Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport. Deals with the fitting of armoured cable to small vehicles not originally designed for the fitting of tachographs.
Digital Amendments
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2135/98
24 September 1998
Amending Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport and Directive 88/599/EEC concerning the application of Regulations (EEC) No 3820/85 and (EEC) No 3821/85. This regulation is the introduction of digital tachographs.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1360/2002
13 June 2002
Adapting for the seventh time to technical progress Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport. Annex 1B contains the technical specification. This is the actual technical specification for digital tachographs.
NOTE: This is large document - 252 pages [4,000kb] and will take a long time to download if you are using a dial up connection
Drivers Hours
COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3820/85
20 December 1985
On the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport
This is the ‘Drivers’ Hours’ legislation.
COUNCIL DIRECTIVE (EC) No 88/599
23 November 1988
On standard checking procedures for the implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport and Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport. This document details the requirements of member states to carry out checks on compliance of drivers’ hours and the tachograph installations.
Regulation (EC) 561/ 2006
This Regulation lays down rules on driving times, breaks and rest periods for drivers engaged in the carriage of goods and passengers by road in order to harmonise the conditions of competition between modes of inland transport, especially with regard to the road sector, and to improve working conditions and road safety. Some of the requirements came into effect on the 1st May 2006, however, the full Regulation came into effect on the 11th April 2007. This regulation supersedes Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85.
This Regulation also aims to promote improved monitoring and enforcement practices by Member States and improved working practices on the road and includes the requirements for digital tachographs to be fitted to all vehicles first put into service on or after 1st May 2006.
The Drivers Hours Manuals
Drivers Hours and Tachograph Rules for Goods Vehicles
and
Drivers Hours and Tachograph Rules for Road Passenger Vehicles
These are the guides to drivers’ hours, goods and passenger vehicles. These are produced by VOSA and give an overview of the current situation.
Page last updated: 28/07/2008