Belarus and Russia are working on creating an alternative system for monitoring drivers’ work and rest regimes to replace the European AETR system (European Agreement Concerning the Work of Crews of Vehicles Engaged in International Road Transport).
This was reported by Head of the Scientific and Technical Policy and Informatization Department of the Belarusian Ministry of Transport and Communications Yury Dubina during a session of the International Transport and Logistics Forum in St. Petersburg, BelTA wrote.
The search for an alternative was prompted by EU sanctions, which caused difficulties with the issuance of digital tachograph cards. A joint working group has been set up to address the problem.
“We have been working intensively for two years at various venues — in Moscow, Minsk and Geneva. We have been exploring possible ways to resolve the issue. Several main areas are emerging,” Dubina said.
According to him, one simple option would be to withdraw from the AETR and switch to record sheets, but the Belarusian side considers such a solution risky. The preferred option remains the creation of an alternative system that is technically fully analogous to the AETR approach.
“If Russian tachograph systems are considered as an alternative, then it is necessary to think about how to improve and optimize them for use in international practice. During Belarusian-Russian consultations, the possibility of creating an alternative system was explored that would, from a technical point of view, be fully analogous to the approaches embedded in the AETR,” the Transport Ministry representative said.
In his view, the main advantage of such a system would be its independence from other systems that use electronic digital signatures. It is предполагается that open data protection protocols will be used in it. The principle of information protection is proposed to be implemented by analogy with the AETR.
