Annex I EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC TOLL SERVICE INTERFACES

European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) providers and toll chargers shall use the following electronic interfaces:

1. 1..

   Electronic radio interfaces at the roadside between the EETS provider’s on-board equipment (OBE) and the toll charger’s fixed or mobile equipment. As a minimum, standardised roadside interfaces between OBE and toll chargers’ fixed and mobile roadside equipment shall support:

   1. (a)

      Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) charging transactions, complying with the following requirements:

      1. (i)

         EETS providers’ OBE shall support EN 15509:2014^f1 as well as those clauses of ETSI ES 200674-1 V2.4.1^f2 that relate to interoperability;

      2. (ii)

         toll chargers’ fixed and mobile roadside equipment shall support EN 15509:2014. Within Italy, toll chargers’ fixed and mobile roadside equipment may support instead those clauses of ETSI ES 200674-1 V2.4.1 that relate to interoperability;

   2. (b)

      real-time compliance checking transactions compliant to EN ISO 12813:2015^f3;

   3. (c)

      localisation augmentation (where applicable) compliant to EN ISO 13141:2015^f4.

   EETS OBEs shall comply with points 1(a), 1(b) and 1(c). EETS OBEs provided for users of light-duty vehicles must comply with the provisions referred to in point 1(a) as referred to in Article 3(6) of Directive (EU) 2019/520.

   Toll chargers may implement any of the provisions referred to in points 1(a), 1(b) 1(c) and 2 in their fixed or mobile roadside equipment according to their requirements.

   Where the toll charger implements a new version of a standard for an interface between the roadside equipment and the OBE, the interface shall continue to support the previous version of the standard for a limited period to allow for the continued compatibility of its electronic toll collection system with the OBEs in operation. The duration of this period shall be published by the toll charger in its EETS domain statement and may not be shorter than two years.

2. 2..

   Electro-optical imaging systems at the toll charger’s fixed or mobile equipment at the roadside, providing means for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR), in toll systems where the installation and use of an OBE is not required.

3. 3..

   Electronic interfaces between the respective back office systems.

   Toll chargers shall only implement those aspects of the interface that are linked to the technology used on the EETS domain under their responsibility (GNSS, DSRC and/or ANPR).

4. 3.1..

   The following back office interfaces shall be implemented by both EETS providers and toll chargers independently of the technology used in the EETS toll domain:

   1. (a)

      exchange of information to support exception handling from toll chargers to EETS providers.

   2. (b)

      exchange of EETS user-related lists from EETS providers and toll chargers.

   3. (c)

      exchange of trust objects.

   4. (d)

      exchange of toll context data.

   5. (e)

      optionally, exchange of payment claims according to the adopted business model.

5. 3.2..

   The following back office interfaces shall be additionally implemented by both EETS providers and toll chargers for EETS domains, which implement the GNSS technology:

   1. (a)

      submission and validation of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) toll declarations.

   2. (b)

      optionally, exchange of payment announcements according to the adopted business model.

   3. (c)

      optionally, exchange of billing details according to the adopted business model.

6. 3.3..

   The following back office interfaces shall be additionally implemented by both EETS providers and toll chargers for EETS domains that implement the DSRC technology:

   1. (a)

      exchange of billing details.

   2. (b)

      optionally, exchange of payment claims based on dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) charging transactions.

7. 3.4..

   The following back office interfaces shall be additionally implemented by both EETS providers and toll chargers for EETS domains that implement the ANPR technology:

   1. (a)

      optionally, exchange of billing details.

   2. (b)

      optionally, exchange of payment claims based on ANPR charging transactions.

   The electronic interfaces for DSRC- and GNSS-based schemes between the respective back office systems of the toll charger and those of the EETS provider shall comply with CEN/TS 16986:2016^f5, as corrected by CEN/TS 16986:2016/AC:2017, at the latest five years from date of applicability of this Implementing Regulation. Where the toll charger or EETS provider implements a new version of a standard, it shall continue to support, for a limited period, lasting not less than two years, data exchange compatible with the previous version of the standard to ensure the continuous compatibility of the back offices.