Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/799Show full title

9.1.5 Equipment Level: Tachograph Cards U.K.

[F1 CSM_83 One unique ECC key pair, designated as Card_MA, shall be generated for each tachograph card. A second unique ECC key pair, designated as Card_Sign, shall additionally be generated for each driver card and each workshop card. This task may be handled by card manufacturers or card personalisers. Whenever a card key pair is generated, the party generating the key shall send the public key to its MSCA, in order to obtain a corresponding card certificate signed by the MSCA. The private key shall be used only by the tachograph card.] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/502 of 28 February 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/799 laying down the requirements for the construction, testing, installation, operation and repair of tachographs and their components (Text with EEA relevance).

CSM_84 The Card_MA and Card_Sign certificates of a given driver card or workshop card shall have the same Certificate Effective Date. U.K.

CSM_85 A card manufacturer or card personaliser shall choose the strength of a card key pair equal to the strength of the MSCA key pair used to sign the corresponding card certificate. U.K.

CSM_86 A tachograph card shall use its Card_MA key pair, consisting of private key Card_MA.SK and public key Card_MA.PK, exclusively to perform mutual authentication and session key agreement towards vehicle units, as specified in sections 10.3 and 10.4 of this Appendix. U.K.

CSM_87 A driver card or workshop card shall use the private key Card_Sign.SK of its Card_Sign key pair exclusively to sign downloaded data files, as specified in chapter 14 of this Appendix. The corresponding public key Card_Sign.PK shall be used exclusively to verify signatures created by the card. U.K.

[F1 CSM_88 The validity period of a Card_MA certificate shall be as follows: U.K.

• For driver cards: 5 years

• For company cards: 5 years

• For control cards: 2 years

• For workshop cards: 1 year]

CSM_89 The validity period of a Card_Sign certificate shall be as follows: U.K.

— For driver cards:	5 years and 1 month
— For workshop cards:	1 year and 1 month

Note: the extended validity period of a Card_Sign certificate allows a driver card to create valid signatures over downloaded data during the first month after it has expired. This is necessary in view of Regulation (EU) No 581/2010, which requires that a data download from a driver card must be possible up to 28 days after the last data has been recorded. U.K.

CSM_90 The key pairs and corresponding certificates of a given tachograph card shall not be replaced or renewed once the card has been issued. U.K.

CSM_91 When issued, tachograph cards shall contain the following cryptographic keys and certificates: U.K.

• The Card_MA private key and corresponding certificate

• For driver cards and workshop cards additionally: the Card_Sign private key and corresponding certificate

• The MSCA_Card certificate containing the MSCA_Card.PK public key to be used for verification of the Card_MA certificate and Card_Sign certificate

• The EUR certificate containing the EUR.PK public key to be used for verification of the MSCA_Card certificate.

• The EUR certificate whose validity period directly precedes the validity period of the EUR certificate to be used to verify the MSCA_Card certificate, if existing.

• The link certificate linking these two EUR certificates, if existing.

• [F2 Additionally, for control cards, company cards and workshop cards only, and only if such cards are issued during the first three months of the validity period of a new EUR certificate: the EUR certificate that is two generations older, if existing.

Note to last bullet: For example, in the first three months of the ERCA(3) certificate (see Figure 1), the mentioned cards shall contain the ERCA(1) certificate. This is needed to ensure that these cards can be used to perform data downloads from ERCA(1) VUs whose normal 15-year life period plus the 3-months data downloading period expires during these months; see the last bullet of requirement 13) in Annex IC.] U.K.

CSM_92 In addition to the cryptographic keys and certificates listed in CSM_91, tachograph cards shall also contain the keys and certificates specified in Part A of this Appendix, allowing these cards to interact with first-generation VUs. U.K.