{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-502/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2018/502",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-502",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/799 is amended as follows:\n(1) Article 1 is amended as follows:\n(a) the second and third paragraphs are replaced by the following:\n‘2. The construction, testing, installation, inspection, operation and repair of smart tachographs and their components, shall comply with the technical requirements set out in Annex IC to this Regulation.\n3. Tachographs other than smart tachographs shall continue, as regards construction, testing, installation, inspection, operation and repair, to comply with the requirements of either Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 or Annex IB to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85, as applicable;’;\n(b) the following paragraph 5 is added:\n‘5. This Regulation shall be without prejudice to Directive 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council.’;\n(2) Article 2 is amended as follows:\n(a) definition (3) is replaced by the following:\n(3) ‘“information folder” means the complete folder, in electronic or paper form, containing all the information supplied by the manufacturer or its agent to the type-approval authority 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;’;\n(b) definition (7) is replaced by the following:\n(7) ‘“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;’;\n(c) definition (8) is replaced by the following:\n(8) ‘“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;’;\n(d) the following definition (10) is added:\n(10) ‘“vehicle unit” means the tachograph excluding the motion sensor and the cables connecting the motion sensor.\nIt 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.\nThe vehicle unit may be composed of the following components subject to type-approval:\nvehicle unit, as a single component (including GNSS receiver and remote communication facility),\nvehicle unit main body (including remote communication facility), and external GNSS facility,\nvehicle unit main body (including GNSS receiver), and external remote communication facility,\nvehicle unit main body, external GNSS facility, and external remote communication facility.\nIf 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.\n“vehicle unit (VU)” is used for “vehicle unit” or “vehicle unit main body” ’;\n(3) in Article 6, the third paragraph is replaced by the following:\n‘However, Annex IC shall apply from 15 June 2019 with the exception of Appendix 16 which shall apply from 2 March 2016.’;\n(4) Annex IC is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;\n(5) Annex II is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 of 20 December 1985 on recording equipment in road transport (OJ L 370, 31.12.1985, p. 8).’;"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Directive 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC (OJ L 153, 22.5.2014, p. 62).’;"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/502/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:13.062189+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}