September 13th 2013

Euro Contrôle Route and TISPOL continue to target digital tachograph fraud

For Euro Contrôle route and TISPOL the enforcement of driver’s hours rules and more particularly the digital tachograph has always been a staple of the cooperation.
A joint working group, the TWG group, brings together experts from the police and inspectorates to exchange information, train enforcement staff and raise awareness of the problem with both the industry and policy makers.

July 19th 2013

Czech-Slovenian-Hungarian joint action in Southwestern Hungary

As part of our yearly bilateral exchanges planned with the Czech colleagues we performed from the 27th to 29th June in Zala county a series of common roadside checks targeting mainly tachograph manipulations with the support of the local transport inspectorate as well as our manipulation expert.

July 18th 2013

Czech cross border check

Joint multilateral roadside check in the Czech Republic
27th – 31st May 2013

July 18th 2013

Multilateral Cross border check

6 countries (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia) have participated at
regional check organized for the 3rd year in a row in southwestern Hungary with the kind support of Zala county Transport Inspectorate and local police, customs.

July 15th 2013

Slovakian-Hungarian seminar on tachograph manipulations

On the invitation of the Slovak Labour Inspectorate the Hungarian Transport Authority with the kind support of Vas County Transport Inspectorate’s manipulation expert delivered in Malá Lucivna, Slovakia a 2 days training – 1st and 2nd June 2011 - on tachograph manipulations consisting of a theoretical and a practical block.

July 3rd 2013

Steering Committee ECR - Ostend

On June 20th and 21st the second and final Steering Committee under the Belgian presidency took place in Ostend.
The Belgian presidency oversaw quite a few important developments in the evolution of ECR, most notably perhaps the move towards an independent ECR by 2015.

July 3rd 2013

3 days concerted roadside action in Northeast Hungary

The next round of regional checks were carried out near Debrecen from the 12th to the 14th June. Hajdu Bihar county’s Transport Inspectorate was pleased to host the event, which has been planned to be a regular bilateral exchange with the Czech Republic, however despite the ongoing administrative and financial difficulties the Hungarian organizators were delighted to be able welcome the inspectors from Romania (ISCTR) and Slovakia (NIP) as well.

July 2nd 2013

ECR Conference Dublin

Tuesday 18 June 2013: Euro Contrôle Route (ECR), the working group that represents European national transport inspection services and Ireland’s Road Safety Authority (RSA) have called on EU Member States to provide additional manpower to National Inspectorates and Police forces for road traffic enforcement of commercial operators (buses and goods vehicles).

The conference took place in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, in Dublin, Ireland

June 28th 2013

ECR-TISPOL Master Class on Digital Tachograph Fraud and Speed Limiter manipulation

Euro Contrôle Route (ECR) and TISPOL hosted the seventh master class on digital tachograph fraud in Osnabruck from June 25th until June 29th. Ms. Menke from the Osnabruck police and Mr. Pernutz from the BAG opened proceedings and in their opening speech stressed the importance of well trained enforcement staff in light of the ever increasing problem of tachograph manipulation.

June 22nd 2013

Master class digital Tachograph fraud June 2010

The master class on digital tachograph fraud was once again a great success. The kick-off was given by Mr. Robert Maiworm, vice-president of the BAG.

June 21st 2013

Multilateral Exchange Debrecen, Hungary

Debrecen, 2-7 May 2010

In accordance with the work plan of Euro Controle Route the Hungarian National Transport Authority hosted the multilateral exchange programme held 2-7 May 2010 in Debrecen.


June 7th 2013

Multilateral regional roadside check in Zala county, Hungary

On invitation of the National Transport Authority and the host Zala County Transport Inspectorate a 3 days major multilateral enforcement action has been conducted on main transit corridors of southwestern Hungary from 15th to the 18th May with participation of 4 countries.