Press Release: Council and European Parliament reach agreement on tachograph regulation

The member states' Permanent Representatives on 24 May endorsed the compromise reached between the Council and the European Parliament in their negotiations on a new regulation on the tachograph used in road transport.

The aim of the new draft legislation, which will replace the 1985 tachograph regulation, is to make fraud more difficult and to reduce the administrative burden, notably by introducing a satellite-linked 'smart tachograph' as well as a number of new regulatory measures.