CORTE- implementation digital tachograph.ppt

Tel : +32 2 286 80 32 - Fax : +32 2 286 80 37
E-mail secretariat@corte.be - Website : www.corte.be
Workshop on the introduction
of the digital tachograph system
in the non EU-AETR Contracting Parties
UNECE / 21-22 October 2009
CORTE-AETR 005 2009 slides Geneva meeting 21 & 22 October 09

1. Genesis of CORTE
Setting up of an informal group of experts (called for some years
the “EU Enforcers Group) initiated by the EC – DG Tren in 1997 to
deal with enforcement of commercial vehicles
- From 1997 to 1999 : definition of control officers’ needs as far as
digital tachograph was concerned
- From 1999 to 2004 : analysis of the different ways of enforcing
Drivers’ Hours Rules throughout Europe and proposals for
amending the existing EU texts

2 – Setting up of CORTE
In 2004, Member States’ enforcement authorities decided to
transform their unofficial group of experts into an official one in
order:
- to develop more formal activities together with the EC, the
UNECE (AETR) and national authorities
- to enlarge their activities so that as to cover road safety issues as
well

An international association has been set up in April 2005
- with statutes and rules of order
- a Board and a General Assembly
- based in Brussels
- submitted to Belgian law
- expected at mid-term to gather all AETR enforcement authorities
- opened to NGOs and industry

Founding members:
- Denmark : National Police
- Ireland : Department of Transport
- Sweden: Swedish Road Administration (SRA)
- UK : Vehicle & Operator Service Agency (VOSA)

• The development and agreement of common interpretations in
the field of Road Transport Legislation and Enforcement.
• To develop harmonised Best Practice enforcement
methodologies
3 - Objectives

Full members: national enforcement authorities and/or regulatory
bodies
Associate members : NGOs
Observers : Industry
4 – Membership: 3 categories of members

Full members:
Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria Croatia
Cyprus Georgia
Czech Republic Iceland
Denmark Moldova
Estonia Montenegro
Hungary Norway
Finland Serbia
Greece Turkey
Ireland Ukraine
Latvia
Luxembourg
Malta
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
The Netherlands
UK
4 → 30 full members

Full members:
Objectives:
Gather all EU and EEA Member States by the end of 2010
Extend to the AETR countries as soon as possible (by the end of
2011)

Associate members
ACEA → Vehicle manufacturers
European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) → Road Safety
European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) → Drivers’ Hours Enforcement
Fédération Internationale Automobile (FIA) → Road users
International Road Union (IRU) → Drivers’ Hours Enforcement
ICTCT → Road Safety and Research
Etc ……………

Associate members:
Objectives: associate all the major actors in the field of road traffic
enforcement

Observers:
Actia
Continental
Efkon
Stoneridge Electronics
Semmler Gmbh
PC Net Service
Tachodisc Ltd
Etc…

CORTE has a consultative status in many EU official committees dealing
with road safety, road transport enforcement, etc…

CORTE has initiated a process at the UNO to become an official
consultative body

On the digital tachograph more specifically
MIDT Platform
www.eu-digitaltachograph.org

Project management
Secretariat
European
Commission
Plenary
Dedicated
web site
Dedicated
Help desk
CINC
Birgit SÄÄV (S)
Armand BIBERICH (L)
Marja VAN DER WEL (NL)
ENC
Hans DRIJER (NL)
Frank DAVIDSEN (DK)
Joaquin DEL MORAL (SP)
IPC
Neil BARLOW (UK)
Ingrid LUTNAES (NOR)
Christina VELINOVA (BG)
Thierry GRANTURCO
Thierry GRANTURCO Thierry GRANTURCO

WEB SITE
Key elements:
- Legislation
- Type approval
- Activation
- Calibration
- Equipment life cycle
- Tachograph cards
- Card issuing
- Networking between CIAs
- How to use the digital tachograph system
- Data download
- Data protection
- Security

WEB SITE
State of play of the implementation of the digital tachograph in:
- the EU Member States
- the EEA countries
- the non EU-EEA AETR Contracting Parties
Points of contact:
- in each country for each particular topic to be covered
- further information available on the private part of the web site
(contact details of national experts)

WEB SITE
FAQ (most frequent asked questions)
News (on the digital tachograph system)
Links (to all main digital tachograph stakeholders concerned)
Help desk

HELP DESK
From 2005 to 2009,
an average of 1,120 questions were answered per month,
which accounts for 56 questions per day.

Questions submitted – by - since August 2005
to February 2009
Countries: 41,094
International Institutions : 2,028 (50/month; 2,5/day)
Total: 43,122
2 028
41 094
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
45000
International institutions C ountries

36,619
6,503
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
EU Countries Non EU/AETR Countries
Questions submitted – by - since August 2005
EU Countries: 36,619 (+/- 85%)
Non EU/AETR Countries : 6,503 (+/- 15%)
Total: 43,122 (100%)

Questions submitted – by - since August 2005:
National authorities: 51 %
Manufacturers: 25 %
Transport companies: 10 %
Drivers: 9 %
International institutions: 5%
Helpdesk questions submitted since August 2005
National
authorities
51%
Manufacturers
25%
Trans port
companies
10%
Drivers
9%
International
ins titutions
5%

Professional category Number of questions submitted
by category
TOTAL 43,122
National authorities
Manufacturers
Transport operators
Drivers
International institutions
22,517
10,643
4,233
3,701
2,028

Statistics per topic since August 2005:
30,80%
27,86%
18,32%
12,76%
5,01%
1,70%
1,49%
0,90%
0,69%
0,47%
0,00%
5,00%
10,00%
15,00%
20,00%
25,00%
30,00%
35,00%
1
Legislative issues
Tachograph/cards functionalities
E nforcement
C ard Issuing
Workshops approval
S ecurity
Data protection
Type approval
Risk management
Ineligible

Topics Number of questions submitted
by topic
TOTAL 43,122
Legislative issues 13,281
Tachograph/cards functionalities 12,013
Enforcement 7,900
Card Issuing 5,503
Workshops approval 2,161
Security 734
Data protection 642
Type approval 389
Risk management 297
Ineligible 202

The help desk is now restricted to:
1. the use of the English language
2. CORTE members
Therefore:
• the CORTE Secretariat is no longer answering questions from
non-members
• the number of questions answered has considerably decreased
in 2009

Brief presentation of the speakers

In chronological order:
Thierry GRANTURCO – CORTE CEO
Birgit SÄÄV – CORTE / Swedish Transport Agency
Neil BARLOW – CORTE / VOSA (UK)
Hans DRIJER – CORTE / Vehicle Inspectorates (NL)

We will address:
1) The legal framework
2) Implementing the digital tachograph system: the logical steps to
follow
3) Which support can the AETR countries benefit from?

1-1: EU rules and their evolution
1-2: AETR rules
1-3: Practicalities
1-4: Consequences of not meeting the AETR deadlines

Considering the constant increase of:
• registration of passenger cars
• registration of commercial vehicles
as a consequence of this, the constant increase of:
• road traffic congestion
• road traffic accidents
• fatalities and injuries
• the number of heavy vehicles involved in fatalities
the EU legislator has decided in 1969 to regulate the professional
drivers’ activities for the very first time.
Regulation (EEC) n° 543/69, Official Journal L 77, page 49
(see http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/en/index.htm)

First generation of
recording equipment
In the EU
This Regulation aimed mainly at:
• limiting driving time allowed by day and by week
• obliging professional drivers to record their activities through a
recording equipment called “tachograph” or, alternatively, to use a
kind of booklet

In the meantime, the EU signed in 1970 under the auspices of the
United Nations an agreement called AETR extending the use of the
recording equipment to the European but non EU Members (former
Eastern countries, former Soviet republics, Balkan countries, etc…)
For EU drivers, the use of recording equipment became mandatory
including outside the EU whilst for non EU AETR drivers, the use of
recording equipment became mandatory for international journeys only
The AETR agreement foresees that each change of the recording
equipment decided by the EU has to be implemented at
AETR level so that each generation of recording equipment, as
presented hereinafter, has also been the one used at AETR level

This Regulation changed considerably the drivers’ behaviour
But the recording equipment was not yet mandatory in the sense that
booklets could be used instead
Therefore, to avoid any distortion of competition between transport
operators, the EU legislator decided to amend the 1969 Regulation in
1985 and to introduce a recording equipment on a mandatorily basis
for every professional driver
Except for very few exceptions
Regulation (EEC) n° 3821/85, Official Journal L 370, page 8
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:1985R3821:20070411:EN:PDF

This new Regulation:
• was much more demanding with drivers (in terms of driving, working,
availability and rest times)
• increased the number of data collected by the tachograph through the
charts used to record data (speed, time, distances, names of drivers/
co-drivers, locations, vehicle registration numbers, etc… have to be
recorded and stored)
• introduced new obligations for transport operators (in terms of
breakdown or faulty operation of their tachograph)
• introduced more stringent requirements for the repair workshops to
ensure a proper calibration of these recording equipments

First generation
Second generation
Over the time, the recording
equipment evolved and from
mechanical became
electronic

But both generations
are anyway working
with paper discs

Nevertheless, it became rapidly clear that analogue tachographs
were tampered (paper discs not used, destroyed, withdrawn
during journeys, parameters mechanically or electromagnetically
altered, etc…).
Whereas experience has shown that the economic pressures and competition in road transport have led
some drivers employed by road haulage companies to flout certain rules, particularly those concerning the
driving and rest times laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) n° 3820/85 of 20 December 1985 on the
harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport;
Whereas blatant infringements and fraud present a road safety hazard and are unacceptable for reasons of
competition for the individual driver who does respect the rules;
[…]
Whereas to put an end to the most common abuses of the present system, it is therefore necessary to
introduce new advanced equipment […];
Whereas the total security of the system and its components is essential if recording equipment is to function
efficiently;
Recitals 2, 3, 6 and 7 of Regulation (EC) n° 2135/98

The EU legislator decided therefore to introduce a new kind of
recording equipment
Encryption of data

In short:
Regulation (EEC) n° 543/69
Regulation (EC) n° 2135/98
Commission Regulation …. 2nd generation of digital tachograph
system 2011 in the EU

Persons and goods are transported everywhere in Europe
To cover these situations, an international agreement has been
signed under the auspices of the United Nations on 1 July 1970,
known under the acronym AETR.
“European Agreement concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles
engaged in International Road Transport”
See http://www.unece.org/trans/main/sc1/sc1doc_2004.html

Legislative texts applicable at EU and AETR level:
EU AETR
Drivers’ Hours’rules
Tachograph rules
Annex 1B to Regulation (EEC)
n° 3821/85
Digital tachograph and tachograph
cards technical specifications
AETR
Annex to the AETR
Appendix 1B to the AETR

At AETR level
For the core of the agreement…
unanimity is required for any amendment to be adopted

At AETR level
The new Article 22 bis of the AETR states for the technical
specifications that:
“Article 22 bis - Procedure for the amendment of Appendix 1B
1. Appendix 1B of the Annex to the present Agreement shall be amended according
to the procedure defined in the present article.
2. Any amendment proposal to the introductory articles of Appendix 1B shall be adopted
by the Working Party on Road Transport of the Economic Commission for Europe by a
majority of the Contracting Parties present and voting. Any amendment thus adopted
will be transmitted by the secretariat of the Working Party to the Secretary-General for
notification to all Contracting Parties. It shall enter into force three months after the date
of notification to Contracting Parties.

At AETR level
3. Appendix 1B, adapted for the present Agreement from Annex IB of Regulation (EEC)
3821/85 as cited in article 10 of the present Agreement, depending directly on evolutions
introduced into this Annex by the European Union, any amendment made to this Annex
shall be applicable to Appendix 1B under the following conditions:
- the secretariat of the Working Party on Road Transport of the Economic Commission for
Europe will officially inform the competent authorities of all Contracting Parties of the
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities of the amendments
introduced to Annex IB of the Community Regulation and at the same time will communicate
this information to the Secretary-General accompanied by a copy of the relevant texts.
- these amendments shall enter directly into force for Appendix 1B three months after the
date of communication to Contracting Parties of the information.
(…)

At AETR level
In conclusion:
AETR agreement
Annex to the AETR
Appendix 1B
Sub-appendices
Annex 1B / 3821/85
Appendices / 3821/85
unanimity
unanimity
Majority of those
present and voting
Automatically adopted
at UNECE level once
adopted at EU level

When do non EU-AETR countries have to introduce the digital
tachograph system?

“Article 13 - Transitional provisions
1. All the new provisions of the present Agreement, including its Annex and Appendices 1B
and 2, relating to the introduction of a digital control device, shall become mandatory for
countries which are Contracting Parties to this Agreement at latest four years after the date
of entry into force of the relevant amendments resulting from the procedure specified in
article 21.
In consequence, all vehicles covered by this Agreement, put into service for the first time
after the expiry of this period, shall be equipped with a control device conforming to these
new requirements.
(…)
Date of adoption of these amendments: 16 June 2006
Date of entry into force in the non EU-AETR
countries: 16 June 2010

“Article 13 - Transitional provisions
2. (a) The Contracting Parties shall take the necessary steps to be able to issue the driver
cards referred to in the Annex to the present Agreement, as amended, at latest three months
before the expiry of the four-year deadline referred to in paragraph 1.
This minimum period of three months shall also be complied with in the event of the
implementation by a Contracting Party of the provisions relating to the digital control
device in conformity with Appendix 1B to this Annex before the expiry of the four-year
deadline.
(…)
Deadline for the introduction of the digital tachograph
in the non EU-AETR countries = 16 June 2010
Deadline to issue tachograph cards = 16 March 2010

What are the transitional measures foreseen in between
today and the deadlines by which non EU-AETR countries
have to introduce the digital tachograph system on their
territory?

Article 14
1. Pursuant to article 13, paragraph 2 (b) of the Agreement, drivers who are driving a
vehicle registered in a Contracting Party and to whom the competent authorities have
not yet been able to issue the driver cards and who, during the transitional period
referred to in paragraph 1 of this article, drive in international traffic with a vehicle
fitted with a digital control device in accordance with Appendix 1B to the Annex,
must be able to produce, whenever an inspecting officer so requests, the printouts
and/or the record sheets for the current week and, in any event, the printout and/or
record sheet for the last day on which he drove during the previous week.
If a driver has his normal residence in a non EU-AETR
country where cards are not available
and that he has to drive a vehicle fitted with a digital
tachograph
he can lawfully do it as long as that he can produce printouts

BUT printouts are of some use only if:
1. the digital tachograph is activated
2. the digital tachograph is properly calibrated
WHILST both activation and calibration are operations requiring the use
of a workshop card
… which in the present situation is not available since this Article
addresses cases where:
- a driver is living in a country where cards are not available
- but where he has to drive a vehicle fitted with a digital tachograph

Practical approach proposed (see ECE/TRANS/SC.1/2006/8)

In practise (1):
- vehicle manufacturers are supposed to NOT deliver vehicles
with inactivated digital tachographs
Would they comply with this requirement, digital tachographs
should at least be ready to record (inaccurate?) drivers’
activities
For various reasons, they often do
They have been duly informed to do some special efforts
towards countries where cards are not yet available

In practise (2):
- Even if activated, digital tachographs need to be calibrated so as,
among others, to measure speed and distances accurately
- Calibration, like activation, requires the use of a workshop card
- Proposal: tolerate that the first calibration (and activation ?) is (are)
undertaken during the first journey to or through a country where
approved workshops have been issued with workshop cards
- Idem in case of tachograph breakdown

Expected place
for the
(activation
and) calibration
to take place

Unexpected
place for the
(activation
and) calibration
to take place

The two main problems are as follows:
1) Transport operators would use illegal recording equipments
Data not available for enforcement purposes
Drivers not controllable
Threat for road safety and fair competition throughout Europe
Prohibition of their vehicles after 16 March/16 June 2010 in
the EU/EEA countries?

2) Data inaccessible for freight and fleet management
Data potentially stored in the tachograph internal memory
for one year
Cannot be downloaded without company cards
Printouts would produce anonymous data if any
Potential overall management problems for transport
companies

2) Implementing the digital tachograph system: the logical steps
to follow

2) Implementing the digital tachograph system: the logical steps
to follow
2-1 : Issuing cards
2-2: Approving and auditing workshops
2-3: Enforcing the use of the digital tachograph system

Card issuing
By Armand BIBERICH (SNCT – Luxembourg)
Birgit SÄÄV (STA – Sweden)
Marja VAN DER WELLE (Vehicle Inspectorates – Netherlands)

Legal bases for issuing cards:
- Council Regulation (EEC) n° 3821/85 of 20 December 1985 on
recording equipment in road transport as amended by Council
Regulation (EC) n° 2135/98 of 24 September 1998
- Commission Regulation (EC) n° 1360/2002 of 13 June 2002
adapting for the seventh time to technical progress Council
Regulation (EEC) n° 3821/85 on recording equipment in road
transport commonly called Annex IB
- AETR

European
Commission -
AETR
Country-1 Country-2 Country-N
Country-(N-1)
International
Legislation
Applicant:
- Driver
- Company
- Enforcer
- Workshop
CIA-X
Country-X
Applicant:
- Driver
- Company
- Enforcer
- Workshop
CIA-2
Applicant:
- Driver
- Company
- Enforcer
- Workshop
Card Issuing
Authority
(CIA)-1
Applicant:
- Driver
- Company
- Enforcer
- Workshop
CIA-(N-1)
Applicant:
- Driver
- Company
- Enforcer
- Workshop
CIA-N

How may a Digital Tachograph card issuing system be
implemented?
Its caracteristics are as follows:
1) Some steps are unique processes
2) Other steps have to be repeated occasionally on a regular basis
3) Finally, some steps have to be repeated for every card issued
The implementation of a Card issuing system is a
multi-step process !

The aim of this presentation is threefold:
- to give an overview about the process steps involved to set up a
Digital Tachograph Card Issuing System,
- to indicate their chronological order and their frequency
- and to show the responsibility of the actors involved

Action Responsible Frequency
Creation and introduction of international legislation. EC & AETR Unique
*)
Transpose international legislation in national legislation
including identification of the Country’s Responsible
Authority for card issuing (CRA = MSA in EU-MS).
Country’s
competent
authorities
Unique
*)
Informing the EC –AETR accordingly and designating the
competent persons .
CRA (MSA) Unique
*)
*) Unless political circumstances cause changes in legislation
1st Step: Implementing Legislation

European
Commission -
AETR
Country-X
CRA (=MSA)
Country informs
EC - AETR
issues International legislation
issues national legislation
& identifies country’s responsible authority
1st Step: Implementing Legislation

Appointment of competent laboratory acting as European
Root Certification Authority (ERCA).
EC Unique
*)
Appointment of the organization in charge of the practical
aspects of card issuing (CIA). It is not excluded that the
CRA (MSA) takes the role of the CIA.
CRA (MSA) Unique
*)
*) Eventually within the term of the contract of the two contracting parties
2nd Step: Designation of Key players

2nd Step: Designation of Key players
European
Commission -
AETR
Country-X
JRC/ERCA
appoints laboratory
CRA (=MSA)
CIA
is or appoints CIA
Country informs
EC - AETR

Defining ERCA Security policy. JRC/ERCA Unique
*)
Drafting country’s national Certificate Authority policy to be
approved against the ERCA Security policy.
CRA/MSA -
JRC
Unique
**)
Designates manufacturer of the raw tachograph cards. In
general, this step is subject to a tendering procedure.
CIA Unique
*)
Appoint a Card personalizer (CP) and a Country
Certification Authority (CCA) within or outside the MSA
(tendering procedure)
MSA/CIA Unique *)
Implementing the Card issuing structure in CIA, e.g.:
<see next slide>
CIA Unique *)
**) Subject to a periodical revision
3rd Step: Implementing Card issuing structure and
defining security policy

Implementing the Card issuing structure in CIA, e.g.:
-Setting up a frontdesk and a card distributing system,
-Implementing working procedures (See Best Practice
Guidelines issued by MIDT),
-Connect to national driving licences database and create
tachograph card database,
-Connect to the tachograph card databases of the
participating countries (e.g. TACHONET).
CIA Unique
*)
3rd Step: Implementing Card issuing structure and
defining security policy

3rd Step: Implementing Card issuing structure and defining
security policy
European
Commission -
AETR
Country-X
appoints laboratory
CRA (=MSA)
CIA
is or appoints CIA
Country informs
EC - AETR
JRC/ERCA
Defines ERCA policy
Drafts CCA-
security policy
Front desk
Card
dispatching
Application
validation
DL-Database
MS-Card DB
Data
exchange
Residency ?
Others
Card Issuing Process
Card
personalizer
CCA
Card
manufacturer
approves CCA-
security policy
Designates
CM

Arrange for functional and security testing of the card
model.
Card manuf. Unique
*)
Execute functional tests according to the legislation and
issue functional certificate.
Laboratory
appointed
Unique
*)
Execute security tests according to the legislation and
issue security certificate.
ITSEC -
Body
Unique
*)
Execute interoperability tests according to the legislation
and issue interoperability certificate.
JRC Unique
*)
Issues type approval certificate.
National
type approv.
body
Unique
*)
*) For a given technical version of the card model
4th Step: Type approval of tachograph cards

4th Step: Type approval of tachograph cards
European
Commission -
AETR
Country-X
appoints laboratory
CRA (=MSA)
CIA
is or appoints CIA
Country informs
EC - AETR
JRC/ERCA
Defines ERCA policy
Drafts CCA-
security policy
Front desk
Card
dispatching
Application
validation
DL-Database
MS-Card DB
Data
exchange
Residency ?
Others
Card
personalizer
CCA
Card
manufacturer
approves CCA-
security policy
Designates
CM
Type approval
certificate
Functional
certificate
Security
certificate
Country-X
National Type
Approval body
ITSEC-
Body
Laboratory
Perform the
Interoperability
tests
Interoperability
certificate

Issuing of the country’s national certificate.
Country
Certification
Authority
Biennial
Signing country’s national certificate JRC/ERCA Biennial
5th Step: Issuing and signing country’s national certificate

5th Step: Issuing and signing country’s national certificate
European
Commission -
AETR
Country-X
appoints laboratory
CRA (=MSA)
CIA
is or appoints CIA
Country informs
EC - AETR
JRC/ERCA
Defines ERCA policy
Drafts CCA-
security policy
Front desk
Card
dispatching
Application
validation
DL-Database
MS-Card DB
Data
exchange
Residency ?
Others
Card
personalizer
CCA
Card
manufacturer
approves CCA-
security policy
Designates
CM
Type approval
certificate
Functional
certificate
Security
certificate
Country-X
National Type
Approval body
ITSEC-
Body
Laboratory
Perform the
Interoperability
tests
Interoperability
certificate
Signs country-X
national
certificate
Issues country certificate

Application validation (see also Best Practice
Guidelines issued by MIDT).
CIA Every card
Identify the card holder CIA Every card
Ensure uniqueness of every driver card CIA Every card
Produce card certificate CCA Every card
Produce and personalize cards CIA / CP Every card
Distribute and hand over cards
CIA -
applicant
Every card
Revok card certificate CIA Every card being
invalidated *)
*) lost, stolen, malfunctioning, confiscated etc.
6th Step: Start issuing tachograph cards

6th Step: Start issuing tachograph cards
European
Commission -
AETR
Country-X
appoints laboratory
CRA (=MSA)
CIA
is or appoints CIA
Country informs
EC - AETR
JRC/ERCA
Defines ERCA policy
Drafts CCA-
security policy
Front desk
Card
dispatching
Application
validation
DL-Database
MS-Card DB
Data
exchange
Residency ?
Others
Card
personalizer
CCA
Card
manufacturer
approves CCA-
security policy
Designates
CM
Type approval
certificate
Functional
certificate
Security
certificate
Country-X
National Type
Approval body
ITSEC-
Body
Laboratory
Perform the
Interoperability
tests
Interoperability
certificate
Signs country-X
national
certificate
Issues country certificate
Applicant:
- Driver
- Company
- Enforcer
- Workshop
Card
application
Revoked
certificates
Participating
countries
Supplies
cards

Approval of workshops
By Neil BARLOW (VOSA – UK)

Content
•Tachograph Scheme Purpose
•Workshop Approval Procedures
•Workshop Technician Authorisation
•Workshop Equipment
•Workshop Card Issuing
•Workshop Audit
•Workshop Discipline
•Record of Workshop Information

Purpose of the Tachograph Scheme
• Ensure Infrastructure in place to enable
tachographs to be installed and accurately
maintained in vehicles
• Ensure correct issue and secure use of workshop
smart cards
• Ensure correct inspection and accurate calibration
of tachographs in accordance with AETR
• Monitor performance of workshops

Workshop Approval Procedures
1. Approval process
2. Facilities and equipment requirements
3. Security requirements
4. Technician training standards
5. Inspection/Calibration procedures
6. Disciplinary procedures
7. Funding

Workshop Approval Procedure
• Application form
1. Site plan (safe, inspection pit, rollers..etc..)
2. Evidence of permission to modify/use the site by owner
3. Sound financial standing
4. References
5. Good repute: declaration of non-conviction
6. Evidence to show technical support, training, equipment and
periodic inspection of equipment.

Workshop Approval Procedure (cont.)
• Site visit to discuss plan
• Does it meet the requirements of the
manual?
• In order to gain approval:
• Site completed in accordance with plans
• Trained technician
• Quality Control system in place

Facilities and Equipment
Building containing:
• Reception
• Secure safe for storage of cards
• Calibration Bay (contains equipment for
determining “W” and “L”. e.g. rollers)
• Inspection pit
• Separate and secure workshop adjacent to
the calibration bay
• External 20m track (as described in the
ATCM)

Required Equipment
• Roller test rig (including Roller Brake Test
conversions)
• Programmer / Pulse counter
• Downloading equipment
• Additional equipment
• Chart reader
• Portable drive unit
• PC and software

Approve Training
Options: Train internally, contract it out, or have 3rd party training
approved by and audited by government body
e.g.
Course Content agreed with VOSA
Examination at the end
VOSA Approved Training Organisation
Training Facilities
Assessments of course delivery by VOSA
Co-operative arrangements for regular reviews of training
VOSA notified by Training Organisation when a technician has been trained.

• Approve Technicians
• Nominated Technicians must :
• Be of Good Repute
• Provide a signed declaration of suitability
• Have appropriate skills and technical background
• Have a current tachograph training certificate –
renewed every 3 years

Workshop Card Issue
• Controlled issue, due to security risks associated with
the card.
• PIN protected
• PIN issued to home address of the technician
• Workshop card issued to the technician’s work address
• Card to be stored securely in a safe overnight
• Slam box storage available for card during the day

Workshop Quality Control/Internal Audit
• Designated quality manager
• Routine Quality Control Checks
• Routine Audit Checks
• Ensuring secure use of smart cards
• Ensuring staff remain properly trained

Workshop Annual Audit
• Government examiner will visit the site annually
• Check for record of plaques issued
• Record of tampering
• Seals, pliers, workshop card etc…securely stored
• Notices displayed
• Technicians are up to date with training
• Equipment has been calibrated

Workshop Disciplinary Procedures
• Inability to calibrate tachographs
• Fraud or deliberate incorrect calibration of tachographs
• If bribes accepted by technicians
• Found guilty of a violent/intimidating crime
• Failure to keep suitable records and comply with the
security requirements of the ATCM
• Calibrations performed by unauthorised staff

Workshop Disciplinary Procedures
Options:
• Advice
• A formal warning
• Letter of Contemplated Withdrawal
• Additional Training
• Disqualification
• Suspension

Record of Workshop Information
A Database Containing:
• Centre address
• Nominated technicians
• Designated site manager
• Seal number for the site-provided to European
Commission periodically
• Workshop card numbers
• Annual reports completed by Traffic Examiners
• Copies of communication with the workshop

Funding
• Funding regimes need to support scheme
structure: e.g.
• State owned
• Private
• Sub-contracted

Enforcement
By Hans DRIJER (Vehicle Inspectorates – Netherlands)

Enforcement
With analogue tachographs

Speed
Distance
Mode of work
Time
Are recorded

Drivers name
Start location
End location
Dates
Vehicle
registration
Odometer
readings

Odometer Distance is
insufficient to match
geographical locations
Analogue Distance Trace
Manipulations can be detected (1)

Distance from know
highway feature e.g.
peage, is insufficient to
reach check site
Analogue Distance Trace
Manipulations can be detected (2)

speed vs distance
0 km/h
10 km/h
20 km/h
30 km/h
40 km/h
50 km/h
60 km/h
70 km/h
80 km/h
90 km/h
100 km/h
-250 km -200 km -150 km -100 km -50 km 0 km
Digital Distance Trace
Analysis software can also be used one data are scanned (1)

speed vs distance
0 km/h
10 km/h
20 km/h
30 km/h
40 km/h
50 km/h
60 km/h
70 km/h
80 km/h
90 km/h
100 km/h
-250 km -200 km -150 km -100 km -50 km 0 km
Distance from know
highway feature e.g.
peage, is insufficient to
reach check site
Digital Distance Trace
Analysis software can also be used one data are scanned (2)

Enforcement
With digital tachographs

Data can be downloaded by control officers if issued with control cards
Control card
Connector
Cable

Alternative for the control officers to get access to the recording
equipment’s and card’s data : printouts
6 types of print-outs, which can be selected through the recording
equipment :
• 2 relate to the drivers’ activities: one comes from the recording
equipment, the other one from the driver card;
• 2 relate to the events and faults: one from the recording equipment,
the other one from the driver card;
• 1 concerns the technical data (vehicle, recording equipment, etc…);
• 1 concerns the over speeding.

Control officers need therefore to know with the digital tachograph at
least as much as they know with the analogue tachograph:
- driver’s name
- vehicle registration number
- start and end of the journey
- time
- speed
- distance
- odometer
- drivers’ activities

If the digital tachograph is activated and calibrated, control officers
can at least base their checks on print-outs
Used without driver cards, digital tachographs produce nevertheless
anonymous print-outs which can easily be used to defeat the system
Transitional measures (i.e. use of digital tachographs without driver
cards) should therefore be implemented for a limited period of time

Control officers also need to check the validity of the driver card
produced by the driver is any
The driver may have flouted the rules and be using a non-valid card
(previously declared lost or stolen for example)
At EU-EEA level, exchange of data between card issuing authorities
through TACHOnet

TACHOnet Business Actors
• Clerks working for National Card Issuing Authorities (CIA)
• Control officers working for National Enforcement Authorities
TARJETA DEL CONDUCTOR
FØRERKORT
FAHRERKARTE

DRIVER CARD
CARTE DE CONDUCTEUR
CÁRTA TIOMÁNAÍ
CARTA DEL CONDUCENTE
BESTUURDERSKAART
CARTÃO DE CONDUTOR
KULJETTAJAKORTTILLA
FÖRARKORT
6.
NAME OF AUTHORITY AND ADDRESS
DRIVER CARD MEMBER STATE
1.
2.
3.
4a. 4b.
4c.
(4d.)
5a.
5b.
7.
(8.)
MS
Please return to:
1. Surname 2. First name(s)3. Birth date
4a. Date of start of validity of card
4b. Administrative expiry date of card
4c. Issuing authority
(4d.) No for national administrative purposes
5a. Driving license number 5b. Card number
6. Photograph
7. Signature (8.) Address
FRONT REVERSE
A A
B B
Clerk @ CIA
Control officer
Hans DRIJER
Truck driver
Owns & uses
Applies for a card, asks for exchange, declare card status modification
Issues,
Checks,
Modifies
Checks,
Modifies
Controls during road checks
TACHOnet
XML Messaging
System

At enforcement level, what is needed for your control officers is them:
- to be trained
- to be issued with control cards
- to be equipped
- to have access to drivers’ and workshops’ cards data

3-1: UNECE-AETR Secretariat and ad hoc working group
3-2: European Commission’s TAIEX workshops
3-3: CORTE-MIDT meetings and help desks

3-1: UNECE-AETR Secretariat and ad hoc working group
3-2: European Commission’s TAIEX workshops

3-3: CORTE-MIDT meetings and help desks

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