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ERRU:Impact on cross-border
cooperation
Ad Hellemons
Director TISPOL Organisation
Brief Introduction TISPOL
 TISPOL: Europees Network for Traffic Police (EU 27
+Norway, Swiss)
 Focus on road safety and fight against crime
 Cross-border police cooperation (exchange good-practice,
training, seminars, control operations, lobby)
 Cooperation with external stakeholders
 IRU/ECR/TISPOL cooperation
 www.tispol.org
Road Transport Enforcement
 Difficult issue for TISPOL
 In spite of EU legislation (Regulations) considerable differences in
enforcement in the M.S.
Complex: rules complex, digital tacho fraud, dealing with foreign
drivers, many different documents
Few experts available, due to complexity and resources required to
come/remain at expert level
What does TISPOL try to do about it?
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Truck and bus control operations
Transport Document System (TDS)
Master classes
Tachoweb (expert system tacho fraud)
Joining Eu working groups/expert committees
Full cooperation with ECR
Cooperation with Industry (IRU/ECR/TISPOL)
ERRU
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TUNER Project (TISPOL/KLPD/ECR/IRU)
Blueprint for ERRU
Missed opportunity: inter-connection of national systems instead of
EU database
Political decision. TUNER warned for the potential risks.
Complex, expensive and leaves too much room for interpretation
and ignoring by M.S.
ERRU system design could have forced more into the direction of
harmonisation (also: software checking tacho)
What could be the added value?
Improvement of definition of bad behavior
Removing bad companies, persons from the sector
More unified approach by law enforcement
More serious threat to operators that hide behind foreign
borders
 A strengthened feeling of working all together for law
enforcement
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But:
 It is a pity that a -potentially- so powerful signal to bad
behaving companies and persons is weakened so much by
the way the instrument is organised and implemented. It
could have been so much more powerful, if the M.S. would
have organised the ERRU in such a manner that differences
in technology, interpretation, decision-making etcetera
would have been more ruled out by the design and working
of the system itself.
 Identical discussion: software on interpretation of readings
of digital tachograph (different interpretations means
different enforcement)
Battle difficult to win for law enforcement
 Many people and organisations in law-enforcement work
hard on harmonisation of practices, but as long as there is
no real political will in the M.S. to achieve harmonisation it
is a very difficult fight.
 There are so many ways to escape, that the work that is
done has only a limited effect.
 Sometimes naive assuptions about capability of
enforcement (group of wise men/new cabotage rules)
 If the situation does not change, more and more people in
law-enforcement will get demotivated and stop their
efforts. This effect will be reinforced by financial problems.
Thank you for your attention
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