Transport written question – answered at on 8 February 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the timescale for the introduction of EU regulations relating to digital tachographs; and within what time period (a) private companies and (b) individuals will be required to comply with the new regulations.
New EU regulations on drivers' hours, which include a revised mandatory fitting date for digital tachographs, were recently agreed by the Council and the European Parliament.
The new regulations will require the operators and drivers of certain heavy goods and public service vehicles to use digital tachographs in any such vehicles put into service for the first time from a date 20 days after formal publication of the new regulations.
The Council and Parliament have indicated that they will make every effort to ensure that the new regulations are published in the Official Journal of the European Union in April this year.
Consequently, digital tachographs should become mandatory for all new in-scope vehicles from early May 2006.
Changes to the drivers' hours rules themselves will enter into force one year after publication.
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