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More EC tacho confusion
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A EUROPEAN COMMISSION transportbureaucrat, who last week said digital smart-card tachos would be delayed, now acknowledges his comments were "unguarded" and not necessarilycorrect.
However, John Berry says he still has concerns over parts of the legislation failing in a European Parliament vote.
The EC principal administrator of transport and energy told the ETA's Freight Summit last week that "procedural problems" would delay the launch of digital tachographs until November (CM 3 March). Transcripts of the conference show Berry said there would be a five-month delay to the legislation.
But Berry has now clarified his position, saying transport ministers and the EC had wanted a moratorium (an agreed suspension of activity ) to buy time for the manufacture of digital tacho equipment.
It is this moratorium — implemented as an amendment to the drivers' hours legislation, which has been delayed: it will not happen until after the digital tacho regulations take effect in August.
"What I was trying to say was the enactment of the tachograph law [moratorium] is a best case scenario: it would be three months after that," says Berry. If the legislation goes through there will be a few months' legislative delay. Maybe I was unguarded in my comments."
The FTA is still calling for a 12month delay in the compulsory fitment of the new tachos.