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3rd Driving Licence Directive Workshop
6th May 2010, Autoworld Museum, Brussels
A workshop on the 3rd Driving Licence Directive will be held on May 6th, 2010, at the Autoworld Museum in Brussels. Training professionals, policy-makers and industry representatives will attend this workshop, organised by ACEM and supported by CIECA, FIM, FEMA and Suzuki.
The 3rd Driving Licence Directive (Directive 2006/126/EC), published on the 30 December 2006, contains new provisions governing the access to the different categories of Powered Two-Wheelers (PTWs), introducing new PTW vehicle categories and offering Member States a range of options, among which testing and training requirements.
The Directive 2006/126/EC must be transposed into national legislation by 19 January 2011 and enter into force as of 19 January 2013. With this deadlines approaching, this workshop (after the ones held in Nîmes in 2008 and in Brussels in 2009) is the opportunity for a status report on the activities carried out by the Member States.
The European Commission’s DG MOVE Road Safety Unit will shed light on open points and questions raised about the directive. CIECA will present case studies and illustrate best practices, with the aim of fostering the right of free movement and enhancing road safety.
This event will also offer the opportunity for specialists to meet and exchange views, discussing the challenges encountered by Member States within the transposition process.
The programme foresees a live demonstration of the tests required to obtain a category A driving licence on a delimited area in front of the Autoworld Museum.
The award ceremony of the Bike Safety Competition will be also take place during the course of the day. The Bike Safety Competition, which was launched by CIECA, the International Commission of Driver and Rider Testing Authorities, aimed at gathering the best practices in rider training exercises. Rider trainers from around the world submitted exercises related to the ten most frequent accident causes for PTWs. The winner of the Bike Safety Competition will receive a scooter offered by Suzuki and his excercise will be presented to the participants of the workshop.
Programme
Welcome notes
11.00 - Antonio Perlot, Public Affairs Manager, ACEM
11.10 - FIM
11.15 - FEMA
11.20 - CIECA
BikeSafe Competition
11.30 - Demonstrations (practical tests and awarded manoeuvres from the Bike Safety competition)
12.25 - Prize Awards
12.45 - Walking lunch
3rd Driving licence directive
13.45 - Challenges and perspectives - transposition in Member States
Gilles Bergot, Deputy Head of Road Safety Unit, DGMOVE, EC
14.00 - Overview of the transposition situation in the EU,
CIECA
Case studies
14.20 - 16.30
Case studies by CIECA members on the application of the new progressive
access requirements in the framework of the 2006/126/EC Directive
15.00 – Coffee break
16.30 - Q&A session
17.00 – End of the workshop
[INDEX]
PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR RIDERS
IVM'S "LICENSE CHALLENGE 2010"
HONDA'S TO BEGIN SALES OF ELECTIRC SCOOTER