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2019 Motocross Of European Nations The FIM Europe is glad to announce the Motocross Of European Nations will take place on 5th-6th October in Gdańsk, Poland. We invite all the interested Nations and Teams to subscribe the entry connecting to the following link: www.mxoen2019.pl www.facebook.com/MXOEN2019/

FIM Europe Road Safety and Mobility Conference in Zagreb FIM Europe is pleased to inform that the papers presented at the Road Safety and Mobility Conference during the FIM Europe Congress in Zagreb are available on line at this link: http://www.fim-europe.com/road-safety-conference/#1472637232578-c5ae9073-22d1 The Conference, held on 5th July at the Sheraton Hotel, deals with the most important and updated topics of the matter and was broadcasted in youtube live streaming with the presence of the 2nd Deputy President Mr. Silvio Manicardi. The main theme was the “basic and advanced training” in order to reduce the numbers of the accident and death on the road. At the conference spoke: Matthew Baldwin, European Commission Deputy Director-General for Mobility and Transport - “Basic training challenges: novice riders in a modern traffic environment” Antonio Perlot, Secretary General of ACEM, “Advanced PTW training: key elements for a qualitative program” Dolf Willigers, Secretary General of FEMA,  “Constrains of

Open registration for the 2019 FIM Europe Club event in Croatia The FIM Europe and the Croatian Motorcycle Federation (HMS) are pleased to announce that the registration for the 2019 FIM Europe Club event in Croatia are now open! The FIM-Europe Club Experience 2019 will be held on the Coast of Croatia from the 20th to the 22nd of September 2019: the journey will start in Grobnik Race Track and will finish in Skradin, stopping in Rijeka and Vransko lake. The event is dedicated to the European FMNs, the Management Council Members, the FIM, the Internal Auditors, the Commission and Panel Members, the Honorary Members and the Regional Associations. We kindly ask you to send your inscription form not later than 31st July 2019 to  andrea.diamantini@fim-europe.com Click here for more info

FIM Europe meets FIM Oceania Tuesday, June 18, taking advantage of his presence in Italy for SBK's San Marino race on June 23rd, FIM Oceania Secretary General Simon Maas and FIM Europe Secretary General Alessandro Sambuco met at the FIM Europe Secretariat in Rome. In the agenda of the meeting, which took place in a friendly and concrete collaboration atmosphere, one of the topics discussed was the insurance coverage of the Riders who deal with intercontinental trips to participate in Open events. “One of our main tasks is not only to encourage the development of motorcycle sporting activity, but to guarantee the best possible solutions if accidents should occur to riders, especially when they are far away from home,” said Alessandro Sambuco at the end of the meeting, “to do this, with the colleague of the FIM Oceania, we are studying a solution with a very active and Motorcycling expert

The Italian Motorcycle Federation celebrates the 2019 World Environment Day Saturday 8th of June during the 3rd round of the Coppa Italia road racing competition, 7 olive trees were planted in the green entrance area to Vallelunga circuit’s grandstands to celebrate the 2019 World Environmental Day and according with the 2019 motto “Green The Blue – Beat Air Pollution”. The decision on the number of trees to be planted was taken after calculating the amount of CO2 emitted into the air during the event and assessed the absorption capacity of each trees planted. The availability of the Vallelunga racetrack in the figures of the Director Alfredo Scala and collaborators and the president of the motorcycle club Gentleman’s Claudio Gregori is commendable The ceremony was attended by Ing. Giancarlo Strani President of the FMI Environment Commission, Daniele Infante CIV FMI representative and Ing. Adamo Leonzio FMI Environment Commission and Chairmen FIM

Celebrate the World Environmental Day Dear friends, tomorrow will be the World Environmental Day. The entire human community is called to do something to show the commitment with the preservation of our planet and leave to our descendent a place in which live in the best possible way. This year’s motto is “GREEN THE BLUE”, beat air pollution. As done in my previous press release, I invite all of you to celebrate the WED tomorrow and during the events of the weekend. There are many ways to do it: reduce the running of the engines of our bikes, planting trees, reduce the consumption of energy, etc. Choose your way to demonstrate your commitment and share it with us. Enjoy the World Environment Day! FIM Europe Environment Commission Chairman Adamo Leonzio

FIM Europe – FEMA meeting The 15th of May FIM Europe and FEMA met in Roma Fiumicino. The main purpose was to update the position papers presented in June 2017 during the FIM Europe Congress in Rome. On the actual 11 papers, the meeting has decided to consider two new items that came to the attention recently: ISA (Intelligent Speed Assistance or Adaptation) and PLEV (Personal Light Electric Vehicles). These will be presented in July during the FIM Europe Congress in Zagreb. To guarantee a proper understanding in between the two Associations at least a once a year meeting has been planned. Click here to read the actual documents.

On Saturday 19th January, the FIM Europe Non-Sporting Council was held in Rome/Fiumicino (Italy), following  the Non-Sporting Commission Meetings: the Environment Commission chaired by Mr. Adamo Leonzio,  the Touring Commission  chaired by Mr. Nils Freivalds, the Public Affairs Commission chaired by Mr. Dimitris Margaritis and the Marketing, Promotion & Industry Commission chaired by Mr. Blagoja Petrovski. The work has progressed smoothly and the results were shared and discussed together with the 2nd Deputy President,  Mr. Silvio Manicardi. Mr. Manicardi quote: “Some of the points discussed during the Commission meetings have a high interest for the  good and smooth progress of our activities. I hope that all our world will follow closely the changes that are occurring, in order to be ready to tackle new possible challenges”. Also the FIM Europe acting President, Mr. Martin de Graaff, was present at all meetings and reported: “In all Commissions, future items fast changing

The Road Safety Congress is scheduled to start today at 16.30 from the FIM Europe Congress in Nantes (France) and will be broadcasted in live streaming from 16.30 at the following link: http://ffmoto.attwm.fr/. The topic of this year’s Road Safety Conference will be: “Electric Mobility: from Racing to Riding the Roads”, dealing with the development of electronics and technology. After the welcome speech of Mr Jean-Pierre Moreau, Chairman of Public Affairs Commission, Mr Silvio Manicardi will explain ‘Why a a Conference on electric motorcycles in Europe?’. The speech will be followed by Mr John Chatterton Ross’ speech on ‘Current issues facing motorcycling from Brussels’; Mr. Sébastien Poirier, Directeur Général of the Fédération Française de Motocyclisme will talk about the situation of Motorcycling in France. The Chairman of the Board of Energica Motorcycle Mr. Franco Cevolini will talk about the electric Superbike and Mr. Umberto Uccelli Managing Director of Zero Motorcycles Europe will

The first meeting of the year of the FIM Europe Environment Commission was held last weekend in Warsaw (Poland). On Friday, the Commission made a revue of the activity of the Commission itself during the second part of the 2017 and the two first months of 2018 analysing the visit in site, the situation with the online check list program and the Green Class held during the FIM CIE Seminar in Frankfurt and Rome. The FIM Europe Environment Commision, chaired by Adamo Leonzio Moreover, to continue the change of the Commission objective, from control to proposal and help, the new program called “What’s new in Environment” was deeply analysed. The Commission decided to concentrate in this program all the news in environment with a technical value and to start with a new project called “Environmental Highlights” dedicated to all the activities related to the environment made by organizers, Federations, and other