The legal expertise is provided by the law office GRANTURCO & Partners.

Thierry GRANTURCO has been involved in the definition of the digital tachograph specifications, working as a project leader and as a legal adviser between 1997 and 1999 (EU contract referenced B3-B97-B2 7020-SIN-1221).

He was in charge of animating six task forces, respectively dealing with human machine interface (HMI), security, tachograph cards and data elements, external interface, type approval and enforcement and gathering Member States representatives as well as electronic, on-board computing, tachograph, cards and vehicles manufacturers.

At the end of 1999, his law office was also involved in the EU project (referenced B 99-B27020 10 - SI2 - 124740/I B399014/SNRA), in which he was in charge of animating four task forces, two of them dealing with Regulation (EEC) n° 3820/85, two others dealing with Regulation (EC) n° 2135/98 introducing the digital tachograph and gathering Member States representatives experts.

From 2000 until 2002, he was in charge, as a project leader and as a legal adviser, of the EU project (referenced B2000-B2702B-SI2.155280/P B3 99) aiming at facilitating the introduction of the digital tachograph in the Central and Eastern European Countries, in the framework of the AETR (UNO) agreement.

He was in charge of the legal issues in the Implementation of the Digital Tachograph (IDT) project (referenced SUB/B27020B/E1/507.14876/2002) and he took an essential part in the issuing of the deliverables dealing with:

• Company Checks and Data Management
• Roadside Checks
• Data Protection
• Activation, Calibration, Inspection, Downloading and Decommissioning of Digital Tachograph
• Approval of Workshops
• Type Approval of Digital Tachograph and Tachograph Cards
• etc...

Thierry GRANTURCO was assisted in his work by his team members.

GRANTURCO & Partners is still, in the MIDT project, in charge of the legal issues and will put his expertise and experience at the disposal of the Member States, the European Commission, United Nations Organisation as well as at the disposal of the Help Desk.