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 Regulations (EEC) No 3821/85 and (EC) No 2135/98 and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 3820/85 (Text with EEA relevance) - Declaration Basic information Dates Date of document: Date of publication: Date of effect: May 1, 2006 Entry into force - See Art 29 April 11, 2007 Entry into force - See Art 29 Deadline: November 20, 2024 At the latest See Art 23a.2 And 32020R1054 December 31, 2024 At the latest See Art 8a.4 And 32020R1054 August 20, 2025 See Art 23a.2 And 32020R1054 December 31, 2025 At the latest See Art 9a And 32020R1054 Modified by Corrected by: Modified by: Amendment proposed by: Completed by: All documents based on this document: Modifies Modifies: Repeal: Affected by case Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 28 July 2011. Andreas Michael Seeger. Reference for a preliminary ruling: Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart - Germany. Road transport - Obligation to use recording equipment - Derogations for vehicles transporting materials - Meaning of ‘materials’ - Carriage of empty bottles in the vehicle of a wine and drinks merchant. Case C-554/09. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 June 2016. Eurospeed Ltd v Szegedi Törvényszék. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Gyulai Törvényszék. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Driver’s liability for infringements of the obligation to use a tachograph. Case C-287/14. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 8 July 2021. OL and Others v Rapidsped Fuvarozási és Szállítmányozási Zrt. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Gyulai Törvényszék. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 96/71/EEC – Article 1(1) and Articles 3 and 5 – Posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services – Drivers working in international road transport – Compliance with the minimum rates of pay of the country of posting – Daily allowance – Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 – Article 10 – Remuneration paid to employees according to fuel consumption. Case C-428/19. Judgment of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 7 February 2019. NK. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Oldenburg. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Transport — Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 — Obligation to use a tachograph — Exception for vehicles used for the carriage of live animals from farms to local markets and vice versa or from markets to local slaughterhouses. Case C-231/18. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber), 13 March 2014. A. Karuse AS v Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tartu ringkonnakohus. Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Obligation to use a tachograph — Derogation for vehicles used in connection with road maintenance — Vehicle transporting gravel from the loading site to the road maintenance works site. Case C‑222/12. Judgment of the Court (First Chamber), 9 February 2012. Márton Urbán v Vám- és Pénzügyőrség Észak-alföldi Regionális Parancsnoksága. Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Bíróság. Road transport — Breach of the rules on the use of the tachograph — Obligation on Member States to establish proportionate penalties — Flat-rate fine — Proportionality of the penalty. Case C‑210/10. Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 20 December 2017. Vaditrans BVBA v Belgische Staat. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Road transport — Driver’s rest periods — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Article 8(6) and (8) — Whether it is possible to take daily rest periods and reduced weekly rest periods away from base and in a vehicle — Exclusion of regular weekly rest periods. Case C-102/16. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 19 October 2016. EL-EM-2001 Ltd v Nemzeti Adó- és Vámhivatal Dél-alföldi Regionális Vám- és Pénzügyőri Főigazgatósága. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Szegedi közigazgatási és munkaügyi bíróság. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Article 10(3) — Articles 18 and 19 — Fine imposed on the driver — Measures necessary to the execution of the penalty taken against the transport company — Immobilisation of the vehicle. Case C-501/14. Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 2 March 2023. A v Åklagarmyndigheten. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hovrätten för Nedre Norrland. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Road transport – Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 – Scope – Article 2(1)(a) – Article 3(h) – Notion of ‘carriage by road of goods’ – Notion of ‘maximum permissible mass’ – Vehicle fitted out as a temporary private living space and for the non-commercial loading of goods – Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 – Tachographs – Article 23(1) – Requirement for regular inspections by approved workshops. Case C-666/21. Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 9 November 2023. ARST SpA – Azienda regionale sarda trasporti v TR and Others. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Road transport – Harmonisation of certain social legislation – Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 – Article 3(a) – Concept of ‘route covered by the service in question [not exceeding] 50 km’ – Carriage by road by vehicles used for the carriage of passengers on regular services – Route covered by the service in question not exceeding 50 km – Non-application of Regulation No 561/2006 – Mixed-use vehicles – Article 4(e) and (j) – Concepts of ‘other work’ and ‘driving time’ – Article 6(3) and (5) – Total driving time over two consecutive weeks – Time spent driving a vehicle excluded from the scope of that regulation. Case C-477/22. Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 2 March 2017. SC Casa Noastră SA v Ministerul Transporturilor - Inspectoratul de Stat pentru Controlul în Transportul Rutier ISCTR. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Balş – Judeţul Olt. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Road transport — Social provisions — Exceptions — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Article 3(a) — Regulation (EC) No 1073/2009 — Article 2(3) — Regular services providing for the carriage of passengers — Concept — Carriage free of charge organised by an economic operator for its employees, to and from work, in vehicles belonging to it and driven by one of its employees. Case C-245/15. Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 26 September 2024. VOLÁNBUSZ Zrt. v Bács-Kiskun Vármegyei Kormányhivatal. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Szegedi Törvényszék. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Road transport – Harmonisation of certain provisions of social legislation – Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 – Article 9(3) – Concept of ‘employer’s operational centre where the driver is normally based’ – Place where a driver takes charge of a vehicle falling within the scope of that regulation – Concept of ‘other work’ – Time spent by that driver driving a vehicle falling outside the scope of that regulation to travel to or from that operational centre. Case C-164/23. Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 9 September 2021. Criminal proceedings against FO. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de cassation. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Road transport – Harmonisation of certain social legislation – Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 – Article 3(a) – Non-application of the regulation to carriage by road by vehicles used for the carriage of passengers on regular services where the route covered by the service in question does not exceed 50 km – Mixed-use vehicle – Article 19(2) – Extraterritorial penalty – Infringement detected on the territory of a Member State committed on the territory of another Member State – Principle that offences and penalties must have a proper legal basis – Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 – Recording equipment in road transport – Article 15(2) – Obligation to insert the driver card – Article 15(7) – Obligation to produce the driver card whenever an authorising inspecting officer so requests – Failure to insert the driver card into the recording equipment affecting several of the 28 days preceding the day of inspection. Case C-906/19. Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 18 February 2016. Z.Ś. and Others v X w G. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Articles 53(2) and 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Road transport — Driver’s rest periods — Rules of a Member State depriving an employee on a business trip of the right to flat-rate allowances for accommodation in the event that the accommodation is guaranteed by the employer at his own expense — Whether the accommodation of a lorry driver on board his vehicle is included. Case C-325/15. Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 10 April 2019. Rolibérica Lda v Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Faro, Juizo& xd; do Trabalho de Portimâo - Juiz 1. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Article 4(i) — Concept of ‘week’ — Weekly rest periods — Calculation methods. Case C-834/18. Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 24 March 2021. Prefettura Ufficio territoriale del governo di Firenze v MI and TB. Requests for a preliminary ruling from the Corte suprema di cassazione. Reference for a preliminary ruling – Approximation of laws – Recording equipment in road transport – Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 – Article 15(7) – Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 – Control proceedings – Administrative penalty – Failure to produce the record sheets for the tachograph relating to the current day and the previous 28 days – Single or multiple infringement. Joined Cases C-870/19 and C-871/19. Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 26 September 2018. Proceedings brought by Josef Baumgartner. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Transport — Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Article 19(2), first subparagraph — Administrative penalty for an infringement committed in the Member State of the seat of an undertaking imposed by the competent authorities of another Member State in which the infringement was detected. Case C-513/17. Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 21 November 2019. Deutsche Post AG and Klaus Leymann v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Road transport — Social legislation — Vehicles used to deliver items as part of the universal postal service — Exceptions — Vehicles partly used for such delivery — Directive 97/67/EC — Article 3(1) — ‘Universal service’ — Concept. Case C-203/18. Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber), 3 October 2013. Criminal proceedings against Daniel Lundberg. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Svea hovrätt. Road transport — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Obligation to install recording equipment — Derogations in respect of the non-commercial carriage of goods — Concept — Carriage of goods by a private individual as part of his leisure activity as an amateur rally driver, financed in part by sponsorship from third parties. Case C‑317/12. Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 20 December 2017. Vaditrans BVBA v Belgische Staat. Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State. Reference for a preliminary ruling — Road transport — Driver’s rest periods — Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 — Article 8(6) and (8) — Whether it is possible to take daily rest periods and reduced weekly rest periods away from base and in a vehicle — Exclusion of regular weekly rest periods. Case C-102/16. Case C-164/23, VOLÁNBUSZ: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Szegedi Törvényszék (Hungary) lodged on 16 March 2023 — VOLÁNBUSZ Zrt. v Bács-Kiskun Vármegyei Kormányhivatal article 9 paragraph 3 recital 5 Case C-834/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Tribunal Judicial da Comarca de Faro (Portugal) lodged on 28 December 2018 — Rolibérica, Lda v Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho Case C-102/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Raad van State (Belgium) lodged on 19 February 2016 — Vaditrans BVBA v Belgische Staat article 8 paragraph 8 article 19 article 8 paragraph 6 Case C-906/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Cour de Cassation (France) lodged on 11 December 2019 — FO v Ministère public article 19 paragraph 2 article 3 point (a) Case C-374/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Köln (Germany) lodged on 7 June 2018 — UPS Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG, DPD Dynamic Parcel Distribution GmbH & Co. KG, Bundesverband Paket & Expresslogistik e.V. v Deutsche Post AG article 13 paragraph 1 point (d) article 13 paragraph 1 Case C-203/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberverwaltungsgericht für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) lodged on 20 March 2018 — Deutsche Post AG, Klaus Leymann v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen article 13 paragraph 1 point (d) Case C-666/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Hovrätten för Nedre Norrland (Sweden) lodged on 5 November 2021 — AI and Åklagarmyndigheten article 2 paragraph 1 point (a) Case C-513/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Amtsgericht Köln (Germany) lodged on 22 August 2017 — Administrative penalty proceedings against Josef Baumgartner article 19 paragraph 2 sentence 1 Case C-231/18: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberlandesgericht Oldenburg (Germany) lodged on 3 April 2018 — Case involving an administrative fine imposed on NK article 13 paragraph 1 point (p) Case C-428/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Gyulai Közigazgatási és Munkaügyi Bíróság (Hungary) lodged on 4 June 2019 — OL and Others v Rapidsped Fuvarozási és Szállítmányozási Zrt. Case C-13/21: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Miercurea Ciuc (Romania) lodged on 4 January 2021 — Pricoforest SRL v Inspectoratul de Stat pentru Controlul în Transportul Rutier (ISCTR) article 13 paragraph 1 point (b) Case C-245/15: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Judecătoria Balș (Romania) lodged on 28 May 2015 — SC Casa Noastră SA v Ministerul Transporturilor — Inspectoratul de Stat pentru Controlul Transportului Rutier ISCTR Legal basis Treaty establishing the European Community (Nice consolidated version) Part Five: Institutions of the Community Title I: Provisions governing the institutions Chapter 2: Provisions common to several institutions Article 251 Article 189b - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) Treaty establishing the European Community (Nice consolidated version) Part Three: Community policies Title V: Transport Article 71 Article 75 - EC Treaty (Maastricht consolidated version) Article 75 - EEC Treaty EuroVoc Vocabulary Road safety Approximation of certain social provisions Carrier Humanisation of work Social conditions Road transport Social provisions Rest period Driving period Carriage of passengers Transport Carriage of goods