The European Commission recently published statistics for 1999-2000 on the application of Regulation 3820/85 on driving times and rest periods for lorry drivers. The total number of checks and the number of offences detected fell across the EU-15 as a whole. Driving time offences continue to be the most frequent. There is considerable variation between Member States in many indicators: commitment to assigned control targets, control efficiency, distribution of controls between roadside and company checks, proportion of foreigners checked, and scale of penalties.