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Other guidance

Discussion within the Committee on Road Transport on the retrofit by 31 December 2024 of smart tachograph version 2 in vehicles operating in Member States other than their Member State of registration and equipped with an analogue or digital non-smart tachograph: Summary report of the Committee meeting of 18 December 2024.

Discussion within the Committee on Road Transport on the introduction of smart tachograph v2 in newly-registered vehicles: Summary report of the meeting of 03/10/2023.

Manually recording border crossings in analogue tachographs in practice: See Guidance Note 10.

Manually recording border crossings in digital tachographs and first version smart tachographs in practice: Requirement MIG_025 of Regulation (EU) 2016/799 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/1228 lays down that “the symbol of the country […] shall be entered as a place where the daily work period begins […]”.

Written statement on the removal or breakage of a tachograph seal by a control officer: See Guidance Note 9.

Legal acts

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