The digital tachograph is a device installed in vehicles dedicated to road transport in order to automatically record and store data relating to them and the working times of their drivers. To communicate the driver's identity to the control device and to allow the transfer and storage of data, a card is required.
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Fomento, Vivienda, Ordenacion Del Territorio Y Medio Ambiente
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Transportes Y Comunicaciones (DIR3: A06004055)
- Classification
- Authorizations, licenses, concessions and approvals
- Subject(s)
- Public Works, traffic and transport
- Starting way
- Interested
- Target
- Legal entities, self-employed persons and registered professionals
- Subject to fees
- Yes
- Fees
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish.
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
€39.08. |
Requirements
The applicant must be a transport company (company card), a test centre (test centre card) or a driver (driver card).
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
There is no deadline for the application.
The renewal must be made within 30 days prior to the expiration of the previous one.
- Submission deadline start date
- 23/04/2025
- Submission deadline end date
- -
- Periodicity
- Continuous
- Means of submission
- Online and in person
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- This procedure admits electronic submission in its specific application
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
- Place(s) for in-person submission
In application of Articles 14 and 16 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, as well as Article 134 of Law 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, the Administration and the Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, the application may be submitted through the Common Electronic Registry of the Government of Cantabria or at any of the offices set up as registration assistance offices.
Required documentation
Request. Request.
Mandatory
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Identification. Document accrediting the identity of the natural or legal person; where appropriate, also the accreditation of representation.
Not mandatory
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fee. Proof of having paid the fee.
Mandatory
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Driving licence. Copy of driving licence.
Mandatory in some modality
The document is mandatory in some of the modalities. For the processing of driver's cards. |
Authorisation as a technical centre. Authorisation of the company, by the departments with competence in industry, as a technical tachograph centre.
Mandatory in some modality
The document is mandatory in some of the modalities. For the processing of test centre cards. |
Transport authorisation. Land transport authorisation.
Mandatory in some modality
The document is mandatory in some of the modalities. For the processing of the company card. |
Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Directorate-General for Transport and Communications.
- Reports or opinions
- No reports or opinions are required
- Resolution entity
- Directorate-General for Transport and Communications.
- Attributive rule
Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, partially modifying the Basic Organic Structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- 3 Months
- Average deadline for decision
- 1 Months
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation by request:
- Positive
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
Appeals
- Type
Appeal.
- Board
Minister of Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment.
- Deadline
- 1 month.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Law 16/1987, of 30 July, on the Regulation of Land Transport.
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- Royal Decree 1211/1990, of 28 September, approving the Regulations of the Law on the Regulation of Land Transport.
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- REGULATION (EC) No 561/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 March 2006 on the harmonisation of certain social provisions in the road transport sector and amending Council Regulations (EEC) No 3821/85 and (EC) No 2135/98 and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85.
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- DIRECTIVE 2006/22/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 15 March 2006 on the minimum conditions for the application of Council Regulations (EEC) No 3820/85 and (EEC) No 3821/85 as regards social legislation relating to road transport activities and repealing Council Directive 88/599/EEC.
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- COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3820/85 of 20 December 1985 on the harmonization of certain social provisions relating to road transport.
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- COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 3821/85 of 20 December 1985 on control equipment in the road transport sector.
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- COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1360/2002 of 13 June 2002 adapting Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on control equipment in the road transport sector for the seventh time to technical progress.
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- Order FOM/1190/2005, of 25 April, which regulates the implementation of the digital tachograph.
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- Royal Decree 125/2017, of 24 February, which establishes the technical requirements and standards of action that must be met by tachograph technical centres.
Do you need help?
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- Personal telephone attention by means of information agents, from 9:00 to 21:00 hours from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
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