CHAPTER IISMART TACHOGRAPH

Article 8Recording of the position of the vehicle at certain points during the daily working period

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In order to facilitate the verification of compliance with the relevant legislation, the position of the vehicle shall be recorded automatically at the following points, or at the closest point to such places where the satellite signal is available:

  • the starting place of the daily working period,

  • F2every time the vehicle crosses the border of the United Kingdom and a member State, or crosses a border between member States, or crosses a border between a member State and another country or territory,

  • every time the vehicle performs loading or unloading activities,

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  • every three hours of accumulated driving time, and

  • the ending place of the daily working period.

In order to facilitate the verification of compliance by control authorities, the smart tachograph shall also record whether the vehicle has been employed for the carriage of goods or passengers, as required by Regulation (EC) No 561/2006.

For those purposes, vehicles registered for the first time F4on or after F521st August 2023 shall be fitted with a tachograph connected to a positioning service based on a satellite navigation system.

F6However, the recording of the border-crossing and additional activities referred to in the second and third indents of the first subparagraph, and in the second subparagraph, shall F7apply—

a)

to vehicles registered for the first time on or after 21st August 2023, but only when operating on the territory of a party to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the one part, and the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the other part entered into on 30th December 2020, other than the territory where they are registered;

b)

to vehicles registered for the first time on or after 21st February 2024,

without limiting the obligation to retrofit certain vehicles later in accordance with Article 3(1b).

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As regards the connection of the tachograph to a positioning service based on a satellite navigation system, as referred to in paragraph 1, use shall be made only of service connections that exploit a positioning service free of charge. No position data other than those expressed, wherever possible, in geographical coordinates for determining the points referred to in paragraph 1, shall be permanently stored in the tachograph. Position data which need to be temporarily stored in order to allow for the automatic recording of the points referred to in paragraph 1 or to corroborate the motion sensor shall not be accessible to any user and shall automatically be deleted once they are no longer required for those purposes.