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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/799Show full title
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/799 of 18 March 2016 implementing Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the requirements for the construction, testing, installation, operation and repair of tachographs and their components (Text with EEA relevance)
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2.GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ADAPTOR
2.1. Adaptor general description
ADA_001The adaptor shall provide a connected VU with secured motion data permanently representative of vehicle speed and distance travelled.
The adaptor is only intended for those vehicles that are required to be equipped with recording equipment in compliance with this Regulation.
It shall be installed and used only in those types of vehicle defined in definition yy) ‘adaptor’ of Annex IC where it is not mechanically possible to install any other type of existing motion sensor which is otherwise compliant with the provisions of this Annex and its Appendixes 1 to 16.
The adaptor shall not be mechanically interfaced to a moving part of the vehicle, but connected to the speed/distance impulses which are generated by integrated sensors or alternative interfaces.
ADA_002A type approved motion sensor (according to the provisions of this Annex IC, section 8, Type approval of recording equipment and tachograph cards) shall be fitted into the adaptor housing, which shall also include a pulse converter device inducing the incoming pulses to the embedded motion sensor. The embedded motion sensor itself shall be connected to the VU, so that the interface between the VU and the adaptor shall be compliant with the requirements set out in ISO16844-3.
2.2. Functions
ADA_003The adaptor shall include the following functions:
interfacing and adapting the incoming speed pulses,
inducing the incoming pulses to the embedded motion sensor,
all functions of the embedded motion sensor, providing secured motion data to the VU.
2.3. Security
ADA_004The adaptor shall not be security certified according to the motion sensor generic security target defined in Appendix 10 of this Annex. Security related requirements specified in section 4.4 of this Appendix shall apply instead.
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