FEMA's European Agenda for Motorcycle Safety

PRESS RELEASE
from the Federation of European Motorcyclists' Associations

2nd April 2004

FEMA's European Agenda for Motorcycle Safety

The EU Road Safety Action Programme is promoting shared responsibility and exchange of best practices to make improvements in this area. FEMA is developing, with the full commitment of its national member organisations, a paper highlighting the different aspects related to road safety. The document promotes solutions to improve safety for motorcyclists on European roads… to be included in European and national road safety strategies.

The outline of this FEMA paper presents the different aspects to focus on, and on which actions can be undertaken in order to improve motorcyclists' safety. Whilst most of these solutions already exist and are being used in some Member States, there are not known by local, national and European authorities. The points included in the 26-page outline, are developed in parallel with the EU Road Safety Action Programme, as the contribution riders can make to help achieving its ambitious objectives.

The themes tackled in the document include, amongst others, road infrastructure and maintenance, black spot management, rider training and licence test, Intelligent Transport Systems, driver awareness, safety equipment and motorcycle design.

The European Agenda for Motorcycle Safety will be presented by FEMA, together with its position paper, to the European institutions within the EU Road Safety Action Programme. And by FEMA national organisations to their local and national road safety authorities.

For more information, please contact the FEMA office.

ENDS

Issued by Christina Gesios--
Christina Gesios
FEMA - Federation of European Motorcyclists' Associations
Rue des Champs 62, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)2 736 9047 / Fax: +32 (0)2 736 9401
http://www.fema.ridersrights.org
 

FEMA National Member Organisations

MAG Austria - www.mag-austria.at, MAG Belgium - www.mag.be, CMF Czech
Republic - Sähköpostiosoite on suojattu roskapostiohjelmia vastaan, Javascript-tuen tulee olla päällä nähdäksesi osoitteen , DMC Denmark - www.dmc-org.dk, MCTC Denmark -
www.mctouringclub.dk, MP69 Finland - www.mp69.fi, SMOTO Finland -
www.smoto.fi, FFMC France - www.ffmc.asso.fr, Biker Union Germany -
www.bikerunion.de, BVDM Germany - www.bvdm.de, Kuhle Wampe Germany -
www.kuhle-wampe.de, MOT.O.E Greece - www.motoe.gr, MAG Ireland -
www.magireland.org, Coordinamento Motociclisti Italy - www.cmfem.it, LMI
Luxembourg - www.lmi.lu, NMCU Norway - www.nmcu.org, MAG Netherlands -
www.mag-nl.org, FNM Portugal - www.fnm.pt, SMC Sweden -
www.motorcyklisterna.org, IG Motorrad Switzerland - www.ig-motorrad.ch,
BMF United Kingdom - www.bmf.co.uk, MAG United Kingdom - www.mag-uk.org