Text tabled : A7-0195/2012

  Diogo Feio (PPE), in writing. – (PT) Road safety is a major concern for the European Union, and so legislation has been developed to lay down harmonised maximum daily and weekly driving times and minimum daily and weekly rest periods for drivers. These rules aim to guarantee road safety and protect workers, ensuring fair competition between businesses in the sector. To this end, the Tachograph Regulation, on equipment for recording data on driving, working and rest times for each operator and each driver, was adopted in 1985. It is this regulation that the Commission now wants to revise and update, in order to make fraud more difficult, to better enforce social rules, and to reduce the administrative burden by making full use of the new technologies available.