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Romania's analogue error

10th May 2007, Page 14
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Romanian operators have fallen foul of EU regulations by buying trucks

with analogue tachos after the rules changed. David Harris reports.

EUROPEAN requirements to fit digital tachographs to new trucks have caught out thousands of Romanian hauliers, according to the country's trade publication.

Romanian operators have been required to fit digital tachographs since I January, but many believed they could still install analogue tachos if they wanted to, according to the magazine Tranzit.

The first that many Romanian operators knew about thiswaswhen they were stopped in Germany and fined up to €2,000 (I1,365).

Tranzit says many dealers in Romania seem to have been delivering trucks with analogue tachos despite the new regulations. Now many vehicles will have to be retrofitted with digitachs to comply with the law.

The introduction of digitachs has had significant effects throughout Europe. In the UK, for example, there was a surge in the registration of new trucks just before digitachs became compulsory in May 2006 as operators hurried to beat the deadline. Last October the European Commission warned Greece and Cyprus that they would be taken to the European Court of Justice if they did not ensure that new trucks complied with the new rules.

At the end of March 2007, Greece was given two months to make its operators use the new tachographs on pain of legal action.

The EC also threatened action against the Greek government for failing to make its operators follow the EU rules on experience and professional qualifications.


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