FEM replies to a European Commission’s letter regarding a possible extension of the flexibility scheme for adapting the combustion engines of non-road mobile machinery to new emission levels according to Directive 97/68/EC.

The position paper is available in our Internal Market section.

On 29 May, around 50 CEOs from large and smaller European companies in the materials handling, lifting and storage equipment sectors, and exhibiting at CeMAT 2008, met for a CEO breakfast organised by FEM to discuss the business climate and economic outlook for the
Mechanical Engineering industry at large, and for the Materials Handling sector in particular.

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The CeMAT organisers are pleased to announce that CeMAT 2008 has been endorsed by FEM, the European manufacturers association of materials handling, lifting and storage equipment. This endorsement consolidates the European base and leading position of the CeMAT international show in the materials handling and intralogistics sector...Download the full press release here.

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FEM issued its initial comments on the Study on the experience in the implementation of Directive 2000/14/EC relating to the noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors (NOMEVAL), in order to give its contribution before publication of the final Article 20 Report by the European Commission.