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Firstly, amendments to Directive 2006/22/EC require Member States to develop dedicated equipment and software that can be used to analyse the data from the digital tachograph. Secondly, the new Commission Regulation now corrects a technical shortcoming by allowing the use of a dedicated, type-approved adaptor for light commercial vehicles (M1 and N1 class) that were exempted in 2006 from the scope of the Drivers’ Hours rules.
The package of measures will significantly improve the methods and procedures used by control authorities in detecting and preventing the use of devices intended to defraud the tachograph system, whilst at the same time keeping unnecessary delays and inconvenience to law-abiding operators and drivers to an absolute minimum.
