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Transport

Volume 654: debated on Tuesday 19 February 2019

Draft Drivers’ Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

The following is an extract from the debate on the draft Drivers’ Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 on 5 February 2019.

Certain functions will also be transferred to the Secretary of State, such as the Commission’s power to specify the technical requirements of the tachograph, which will become a domestic regulation-making power using the affirmative procedure.

[Official Report, Tenth Delegated Legislation Committee, 5 February 2019, c. 4.]

Letter of correction from the Minister of State, Department for Transport, the hon. Member for Hereford and South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman).

An error has been identified in my contribution to the debate.

The correct statement should have been:

Certain functions will also be transferred to the Secretary of State, such as the Commission’s power to specify the technical requirements of the tachograph, which will become a domestic regulation-making power using the negative procedure under this affirmative procedure SI.