From the left Wim Taal, FEMA Communications Officer, Silvio Manicardi, FIM Europe Vice President, Dolf Willigers, FEMA Secretary General, Rolf Frieling of FEMA, John Chatterton-Ross, FIM/FIM Europe Director of Public Affairs, Morten Hansen, new elected Chairman of the Working Group and Jesper Christensen, FIM’s Director of Public Affairs Commission
On October 20th the planned meeting between FIM Europe and FEMA was held at Brussels, in Belgium, in the context of the initiatives aimed to coordinate intervention and communication strategies about the many topics being discussed at European level and with a focus on mobility and to security.
The meeting was attended for FEMA by Morten Hansen, the Secretary General Dolf Willigers, Rolf Frieling and the Communications Officer Wim Taal and for FIM-Europe by Vice President Silvio Manicardi, Jesper Christensen and John Chatterton-Ross.
During the meeting, the new Working Group Chairman was elected for the upcoming 12 months, that is till October 2017: Morten Hansen of FEMA is succeeding to Jesper Christensen of FIM.
The PTW sector must daily confront with limitations and prejudices that can restrict their circulation or even make it more dangerous. Some examples are the initiatives to stop the circulation of a high number of PTW in Paris, the intensive use of cable barriers in Sweden and the rapid development of autonomous driving, with the risk of not properly considering motorcyclists, with all possible dramatic consequences.
“FEMA and FIM Europe, representing 37 million users of motorcyclists in Europe, have been carring out for a long time their concerns with various stakeholders that operate in Brussels”, stated Silvio Manicardi, FIM Europe Vice President . “I appreciate the sense of cooperation and friendship of all the members of the Working Group to achieve the common goals”.
