The duty roster must show, in respect of each driver, the name, the place where based and the driver's schedule for the current week and for the weeks immediately preceding and following that week. The duty roster must be signed by the head of the undertaking or by a person authorized to represent him. The Commission is required to produce a report every 2 years on the implementation of the social Regulations relating to road transport. The principle is that recording equipment meeting strict standards must be installed and used in vehicles registered in a Member State which are used for the carriage of passengers or goods by road. Exemptions may be granted by the Commission, either by means of a prior authorization or, in urgent cases, by means of a simple notification.
Strict rules apply to the installation, inspection and use of such equipment.
The competent authorities of the driver's Member State of residence must issue a card to all drivers. The recording equipment must be so designed that the driver card is locked in position on its proper insertion into the card reader. The relevant data is automatically stored in the memory of the recording equipment. The release of the driver card may function only when the vehicle is stationary and after the relevant data have been stored on the driver card. Should the data card be full the new data replace the oldest data.