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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

In the last days at the FIM Europe headquarters in Rome (Italy) the third meeting was held between FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme) and FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens). These meetings have the purpose to promote the collaboration between the two organisations both at World and European level. FIM Europe was present at the meeting with Silvio Manicardi, FIM Europe Second Deputy president. From the left Palmino Poli, Chairman of FIVA Motorcycle Commission, Panagiotis Kalaitzis, Member of FIM Touring and Leisure Commission, Natasa Jerina, FIVA Motorcycle Commission General Secretary, Bjorn A. Hvaleby, member of the FIVA Motorcycle Commission, and Silvio Manicardi, FIM Europe Second Deputy President Many items have been discussed, and the progresses were analysed, deriving from the cooperation of the associations, in particular about the participation to the respective events, considering that the swapping of information creates a stronger presence of historical PTW in the political world.

fiAfter the successful live-streaming of last year, this year the live-streaming will begin already today at 16.30 with the Road Safety Conference at the following link: https://youtu.be/4906hEmM3jc. Tomorrow at 14.00 there will be the live-streaming of the General Assembly. Both the videos of the Road Safety Conference and of the General Assembly will be then available for free on demand on FIM Europe website. As usual, particular attention will be given to Safety and today the 11th edition of the Road Safety Conference will be held, which traditionally takes place yearly during the FIM Europe Congress. The topic of this year’s conference will be: “Sharing the road with Robots: when Motorcycling Meets Automation”, dealing with the development of electronics and technology. In particular, the agenda of the Road Safety Conference foresees the opening of Silvio Manicardi, FIM Europe vice-President (in the photo), the welcome speech of Jean-Pierre Moreau, Chairman of FIM Europe

A meeting was held on 2 March at the brand-new modern headquarters of OEAMTC (Oesterreichischer Automobil-, Motorrad- und Touringclub) in Vienna between top representatives from ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) and FIM Europe, following the last meeting held in November 2014 in Munich. From left: FIM Europe President Wolfgang Srb, ADAC Sports President Hermann Tomczyk, Director of Motorsport and Classic Thomas Voss, Head of Motorcycle Racing and Motorcycle Coordination Dieter Porsch Various areas of cooperation have been discussed as well as a general evaluation of current activities in Road Racing, Motocross, Supercross, SuperMoto, Track Racing, Enduro and Trial was carried out. ADAC is the largest automobile club in Europe with around 19 million members and holds important sport activities in car racing as well as motorcycles. The national motorcycle Federation of Germany is the DMSB (Deutscher Motor Sport Bund e. V.). OEAMTC is among the largest clubs in Europe with

 From the left, Martin de Graaff, Dr. Wolfgang Srb, Wim van de Camp (Member of European Parliament), Jos Driessen (FIM Board Member). Below, from the left, Driessen, van de Camp, Dr Srb and de Graaff Mr Martin de Graaff was instrumental to arrange a meeting between Mr Wim van de Camp and FIM Europe at the European Parliament in Brussels. The  meeting took place on 2nd February at the premises of the European Parliament. Mr Wim van de Camp is a well-respected Member of the European Parliament since 2009 (member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism - - PPE coordinator -, substitute member of the Committee on International Trade and the Committee on Budgetary Control, and member of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China) and also a very well-known and most enthusiastic motorcyclist. FIM Europe was represented by President Dr. Wolfgang Srb and Mr Martin de

Steve Aeschlimann, recently appointed as FIM Chief Executive Officer, was a “special” lecturer, today, at the FIM Europe Advanced Course in Motorcycling Management, which is being held at the University “Foro Italico” of Rome, in Italy. “We are supporting all the initiatives for the education of managers involved in motorcycling, which is paramount for the FIM and we hail this initiative from FIM Europe for managers and riders, which represents an example of how a master at this level can be. In fact, it includes various aspects of management, which are important for somebody who wishes to work in this field”, Mr Aeschlimann stated. Steve Aeschlimann during his lesson at the University of Rome “Foro Italico”. “We are proud to contribute and to explain the mission of FIM to this very selected group of ‘students’. It is interesting to hear the feedback and the perception about the FIM from people who wish to