Tachograph Cards Status

[286] The interoperability certificate is valid for six months.

It is revoked at the end of this period if the manufacturer has not received a corresponding type approval certificate.
It is forwarded by the manufacturer to the type approval authority of the Member State who has delivered the functional certificate.

[289] The type approval certificate shall be copied by the

type approval authority to the laboratory in charge of the interoperability tests at the time of deliverance to the manufacturer.

[290] The laboratory competent for interoperability tests shall run a public web site on which will be updated the list of recording equipment or tachograph cards models:
. for which a request for interoperability tests have been registered:
. having received an interoperability certificate (even provisional),
. having received a type approval certificate.

[291] Until four months after a first couple of recording equipment and tachograph cards (driver, workshop, control and company cards) have been certified to be interoperable, any interoperability certificate delivered (including this very first one), regarding requests registered during this period, shall be considered provisional.

Image: Facsimile of a complete set of Digital Tachograph Cards

Interoperability certificates issued by JRC

As defined in Regulation 1360/2002, requirement 291, the interoperability status depicted on this page was provisional for a period of 4 months starting from 29th January 2004.
From 1st June 2004, the information presented on this page is definitive.
According the requirements 289 and 290 of the Regulation,

a copy of the Type Approval Certificate has to be trasmitted to the Digital Tachograph Laboratory (iot@jrc.ec.europa.eu).