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

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 shall apply.

In addition, the following definitions shall apply:

(1)

‘digital tachograph’ or ‘first generation tachograph’ means a digital tachograph other than a smart tachograph;

(2)

‘external GNSS facility’ means a facility which contains the GNSS receiver when the vehicle unit is not a single unit, as well as other components needed to protect the communication of data about position to the rest of the vehicle unit;

(3)

[F1 ‘information folder’ means the complete folder, in electronic or paper form, containing all the information supplied by the manufacturer or its agent to the [F2 Secretary of State] for the purpose of the type-approval of a tachograph or a component thereof, including the certificates referred to in Article 12(3) of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014, the performance of the tests defined in Annex IC to this Regulation, as well as drawings, photographs, and other relevant documents;]

(4)

‘information package’ means the information folder, in electronic or paper form, accompanied by any other documents added by the [F3 Secretary of State] to the information folder in the course of carrying out their functions including, at the end of the type-approval process, the F4 ... type-approval certificate of the tachograph or a component thereof;

(5)

‘index to the information package’ means the document listing the numbered contents of the information package identifying all the relevant parts of this package. The format of that document shall distinguish the successive steps in the F5 ... type-approval process, including the dates of any revisions and updating of that package;

(6)

‘remote early detection facility’ means the equipment of the vehicle unit which is used to perform targeted roadside checks;

(7)

[F1 ‘smart tachograph’ or ‘second generation tachograph’ means a digital tachograph complying with Articles 8, 9 and 10 of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 as well as with Annex IC to this Regulation;]

(8)

[F1 ‘tachograph component’ means any of the following elements: the vehicle unit, the motion sensor, the record sheet, the external GNSS facility and the external remote early detection facility;]

(9)

F6 ...

(10)

[F7 ‘vehicle unit’ means the tachograph excluding the motion sensor and the cables connecting the motion sensor.

It may be a single unit or several units distributed in the vehicle and includes a processing unit, a data memory, a time measurement function, two smart card interface devices for driver and co-driver, a printer, a display, connectors and facilities for entering the user’s inputs, a GNSS receiver and a remote communication facility.

The vehicle unit may be composed of the following components subject to type-approval:

• vehicle unit, as a single component (including GNSS receiver and remote communication facility),

• vehicle unit main body (including remote communication facility), and external GNSS facility,

• vehicle unit main body (including GNSS receiver), and external remote communication facility,

• vehicle unit main body, external GNSS facility, and external remote communication facility.

If the vehicle unit is composed of several units distributed in the vehicle, the vehicle unit main body is the unit containing the processing unit, the data memory, and the time measurement function.

‘vehicle unit (VU)’ is used for ‘vehicle unit’ or ‘vehicle unit main body’.]

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).

F2 Words in Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 107(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 107(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Word in Art. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 107(3)(b) (with reg. 114); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Word in Art. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 107(4) (with reg. 114); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6 Words in Art. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 107(5) (with reg. 114); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7 Inserted 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).