Division 2 Definitions

‘Contracting party’ or ‘party’ means any Contracting party to the AETR;

‘eDelivery’ means the service developed by the European Commission making possible to transmit data between third parties by electronic means, providing evidence relating to the handling of the transmitted data, including proof of sending and receiving the data, and protecting transmitted data against the risk of any unauthorised alteration;

‘TACHOnet’ means the system for the electronic exchange of information on driver cards between contracting parties referred to in Article 31(2) of Regulation (EU) No 165/2014;

‘Central hub’ means the information system enabling the routing of TACHOnet messages between requesting and responding parties;

‘Requesting party’ means the contracting party emitting a TACHOnet request or a notification, which is then routed to the appropriate responding party by the central hub;

‘Responding party’ means the contracting party to whom the TACHOnet request or notification is addressed;

‘Card issuing authority’ or ‘CIA’ means the entity empowered by a contracting party for the issuing and management of tachograph cards.