28.2.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 60/1 (Legislative acts) REGULATIONS REGULATION (EU) No 165/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 4 February 2014 on tachographs in road transport, repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments, Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (1), After consulting the Committee of the Regions, Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (3), Whereas: (1)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 (}) lays down provisions concerning the construction, installation, use and testing of tachographs. It has been substantially () OJ C 43, 15.2.2012, p. 79. (3) Position of the European Parliament of 3 July 2012 (O] C 349 E, 29.11.2013, p. 105) and position of the Council at first reading of 15 November 2013 (O] C 360, 10.12.2013, p. 66). Position of the European Parliament of 15 January 2014 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (®) Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 of 20 December 1985 on recording equipment in road transport (O] L 370, 31.12.1985, p. 8). amended on several occasions. In order to ensure greater clarity, its main provisions should therefore be simplified and re-structured. (2)  Experience has shown that, in order to ensure the effec- tiveness and efficiency of the tachograph system, certain technical elements and control procedures should be improved. (3)  Certain vehicles are subject to an exemption from the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*). In order to ensure coherence, it should also be possible to exempt such vehicles from the scope of this Regulation. (4)  Tachographs should be installed in vehicles to which Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 applies. Certain vehicles should be excluded from the scope of that Regulation in order to introduce some flexibility, namely vehicles with a maximum permissible mass not exceeding 7,5 tonnes used for carrying materials, equipment or machinery for the driver's use in the course of his work, and which are used only within a 100 km radius from the base of the undertaking, on condition that driving such vehicles does not constitute the driver's main activity. In order to ensure coherence between the relevant exemptions set out in Regulation (EC) No 561/2006, and to reduce the administrative burden on transport undertakings whilst respecting the objectives of that Regulation, certain maximum permissible distances set out in those exemptions should be revised. (*) Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the harmonisation of certain social legislation relating to road transport and amending Council Regu- lations (EEC) No 3821/85 and (EC) No 2135/98 and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 (O] L 102, 11.4.2006, p. 1).