Author Archives: Annick Roetynck

About Annick Roetynck

Annick is the Manager of LEVA-EU, with decades of experience in two-wheeled and light electric mobility.

• SBS Webinar: growing your business with innovation management standards

  08/05/2023 10:39 Comments Off on SBS Webinar: growing your business with innovation management standards

  On Thursday 1 June, SBS will organise a webinar on innovation management standards, particularly the ISO 56000 family of standards, and their potential impact on SMEs. Following a general presentation on the importance of standards to successful innovation and the need to foster a “culture of innovation” to help businesses grow, the panellists will discuss the specificities of innovation management standards and the benefits and challenges for European SMEs in implementing them. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity to listen to the testimonial of an SME entrepreneur who has been using one or more ISO 56000 standards. The webinar aims to inform SMEs interested in implementing innovation management standards in their work and processes and to increase awareness of these standards among SME representatives. The webinar is organised in the context of the hosting by SBS of a meeting of the ISO/TC 279 working group on tools and methods for innovation management (WG3). This meeting offers the opportunity to raise European SMEs’ awareness about innovation management standards.   Programme and registrations on the dedicated webpage. CONTACT a.raffaelli@sbs-sme.eu

  Photo by Matt Ridley on Unsplash

• On 6 May, Breda (NL) welcomes LEV-users in demonstration against Dutch LEV-framework

  28/04/2023 18:06 Comments Off on On 6 May, Breda (NL) welcomes LEV-users in demonstration against Dutch LEV-framework

  Today, e-scooters and other light electric vehicles such as onewheels, hoverboards, etc. are not allowed on public roads in the Netherlands. The government has been brooding for years on a plan to allow them under very strict conditions provided they have a handlebar.

  The Dutch Minister Harbers of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management has recently indicated that it could take up to 2025 before Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) such as the e-scooter are allowed on public road. They would first require a type-approval by RDW. The government wants to put e-scooters in the “special moped” category, a category that only exists in the Netherlands.

  All the while, the user group Legaal Rijden (Riding Legally) has been pushing for a swift admission on public roads

  Europe?

  Almost everywhere else in Europe, people can legally ride the LEV of their choice without the vehicle having to be type-approved. LEVs have the same legal status as a bicycle or e-bike in countries such as France, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg and Belgium. Furhtermore, riders can insure through their liability insurance.

  Ministry of I&W and Lower House

  Most members of the Lower House who deal with the new legislation have no idea what LEVs are. Most have never seen one up close, let alone ridden on one. Yet they compare LEVs to a Stint and dismiss them as dangerous in debates. (The Stint made the international news a few years ago following a fatal accident). The misconceptions may be caused by bad behaviour in the use of shared scooters. This has given e-scooters a bad image. The recent decision to retract shared e-scooters from the streets in Paris has added to this bad image. All this is unjustified since it is not the shared e-scooter that has caused inconvenience and accidents, but rather its users.

  Legaal Rijden has repeatedly tried to inform the government and members of parliament about LEVs. Unfortunately, this has not been successful. The organization has the impression that the MPs are in a cheese bell with soundproof glass. No matter how loud they roar, it never gets through. Legaal rijden is also shocked at the fact that MPs only take information from one source (Ministry of I&W) and completely ignore the users of these vehicles.

  LEVs without handlebars

  The Ministry of I&W has provisionally excluded the Onewheel, EUC and the electric skateboard from the LEV framework. Further research should reveal whether these LEVs should be allowed on the road in the Netherlands. With these forms of transport, little inconvenience can be expected either. Someone on an electric skateboard can brake better than someone on a normal skateboard. There is also no invasion of these types of LEVs on the cycle path to be expected, and people who already use them drive very differently in traffic because of their vulnerability.

  Poll

  A representative poll by Legaalrijden.nl as well as an internet consultation by the Ministry of I&W has shown that a majority of LEV users wants to be able to buy their means of transport in conformity with the EU technical legislation, and not type-approved by RDW. Our poll also showed that there is a majority of 83% who want to insure their e-step or other LEVs like a bicycle. The government is ignoring this.

  Time for action

  So, according to Legaal Rijden, it’s time for action to draw attention to the legalisation of LEVs in the Netherlands. The municipality of Breda is offering Legaalrijden the opportunity to legally demonstrate on 6 May. That day, LEV-users will be able to express their opinions undisturbed while riding a 10-kilometre route.

  More information: vraag@legaalrijden.nl
  https://legaalrijden.nl/blog/demonstreer-op-6-mei-al-rijdend-op-je-e-step-met-ons-mee-in-breda/

  

• SBS welcomes IMCO report on the Standardisation Strategy

  29/03/2023 13:03 Comments Off on SBS welcomes IMCO report on the Standardisation Strategy

  Brussels, 29 March – Small Business Standards (SBS) welcomes the strong focus on SMEs and inclusiveness in the European Parliament’s IMCO Committee’s own-initiative report on the Standardisation Strategy which was approved yesterday. The report provides the Commission and the High-Level Forum on European Standardisation valuable input on areas to focus on when implementing the strategy. 

  SBS fully endorses the report approved by the IMCO Committee on 28 March and its concrete proposals to improve the inclusiveness of the standardisation system and the effective participation of SMEs and societal stakeholders.
  
  SBS particularly supports the provisions of the report calling for the Commission and Member States to increase long-term and stable funding for the effective participation and involvement of SMEs and societal stakeholders in standardisation, with a specific focus on international standardisation.
  
  With regards to SMEs’ role at the national level, SBS supports the call for measures to boost their participation in national standardisation and calls on national standardisation bodies to facilitate SMEs’ involvement by identifying standardisation projects of particular interest to SMEs in the annual work programmes. SBS also agrees with the need to exchange best practices to improve the participation of different stakeholders, in particular SMEs and civil society organisations, in standardisation. This is also one of the elements stressed by SBS in the context of the High-Level Forum on European Standardisation.
  
  Finally, SBS supports the need highlighted in the report to increase the focus of the strategy on the uptake and implementation of standards, especially among SMEs, establishing stable and clear criteria, as well as allocating the necessary resources to ensure the timely assessment and citation of harmonised standards. 

  Since the publication of the draft report in October 2022, SBS has been vocal in stating its position on the strategy and contributed to the discussions during the public hearing on this subject organised by the IMCO Committee on 23 January.

  Commenting on the approved IMCO report, SBS Secretary General Maitane Olabarria said: “We are delighted to see that many of the points of the SBS position on the Standardisation Strategy are reflected in the report. We now intend to ensure that these points are reflected in the different work streams and discussions within the High-level Forum”.

• LEVA-EU calls on Maltese government to embrace e-scooters

  22/03/2023 17:03 Comments Off on LEVA-EU calls on Maltese government to embrace e-scooters

  E-scooter sharing businesses in Malta are currently obstructed by the negative attitude of national authorities to the extent that the companies’ survival is at risk. It is bizarre that the Maltese government does not embrace e-scooters as the country suffers from the almost heaviest car ownership and car use in the EU. LEVA-EU calls on the Maltese government for a rethink.

  E-scooters in Malta are legally categorised as motor vehicles, which allows traffic authorities to “tow” away and confiscate any e-scooter that is considered to be in breach of traffic regulations. The cost amounts to € 200 plus € 15 per day for parking cost. In the case of shared e-scooters these costs are charged to the provider. Consequently, the sharing companies are being flooded with fines that rise like a financial sword of Damocles over them.

  Another existential threat to these companies stems from the requirement for e-scooter riders to have at least an AM driving license. It is equally the providers who have to pay the fines for riders of their shared e-scooters failing to do so.

  The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has gathered national e-scooter rules for 19 member states. This overview shows that none of the Member States require a driver’s license, except Poland for riders under 18. In fact, Directive 2006/126/EC on driving licences even explicitly excludes vehicles with a maximum design speed under or equal to 25 km/h. Last month, ETSC has published “Recommendations on Safety of E-scooters”. These recommendations do not include a compulsory moped driving license.

  The driving license requirement significantly complicates the management of the sharing system. It also makes the e-scooters much less accessible to users and it discourages tourists in particular from using e-scooters.

  The maximum speed for e-scooters in Malta is 20 km/h and the minimum age for riders is 16 years. It seems plausible that any road user at that age knows the Highway Code sufficiently well to travel safely at no more than 20 km/h, without having to obtain a moped licence to do so.

  It is bizarre that the Maltese government does not embrace e-scooters as the country suffers from the almost heaviest car ownership and car use in the EU.

  A recent study on new mobility patterns in European cities by DG Move has shown that car ownership and car usage in Malta is among the highest in the EU. 22% of the households have 3 or more cars, while 39% have 2 cars. Furthermore, the car has the highest share in the modal split, i.e. 75%, of all countries for which these data are available. For comparison, the share of cars in the German modal split is 57%. Finally, Malta has the second highest number of trips per person per day for short-distance mobility on all days. The study has found that the number of trips is positively correlated with car availability.

  The importance of using light electric vehicles is evident from the LEV4Climate report, which LEVA-EU commissioned from DLR last year. This report clearly shows the huge potential of LEVs, including e-scooters, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. LEVs can replace 77% of all car trips according to DLR’s theoretical model, which would result in 44% less CO2 equivalent. The trips for which LEVs replace cars would even save 88% emissions compared to a situation where all trips are done by car.

  LEVA-EU therefore believes that e-scooters and other forms of light electric mobility need to be embraced by Maltese authorities. Unfortunately, the contrary appears to be the case. The e-scooter sharing businesses in Malta are currently obstructed by the negative attitude of national authorities to the extent that the companies’ survival is at risk.

  On behalf of its member, Seven Group Malta Ltd, LEVA-EU has sent an urgent appeal to the Maltese Minister for Transport, Mr Farugia, to initiate a dialogue with shared e-scooter operators without any further delay. With that, LEVA-EU suggests for Malta to revoke the driver’s license obligation, the disk on the vehicle as proof of the license, as well as to revoke the classification of e-scooters as motor vehicles. Instead, LEVA-EU calls for a consultation with the sharing companies to reach a gentleman’s agreement on parking rules for e-scooters.

  The members of the Standing Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Development Planning in the Maltese Parliament as well as the four Maltese Members of the European Parliament, among who the Parliament’s President, Roberta Metsola, have also been called upon to support a constructive dialogue.

  Photo by Luke Tanis on Unsplash

• Call for Action: Protest NOW to EU Commission against Dutch LEV- framework

  17/03/2023 13:55 Comments Off on Call for Action: Protest NOW to EU Commission against Dutch LEV- framework

  If you have plans to go on the Dutch market with electric cargocycles, electric scooters and/or self-balancing vehicles, then you have every interest in reading this call carefully before Thursday 23 March.

  The Netherlands has been preparing some kind of type approval for electric cargocycles, e-scooters and self-balancing vehicles for years. Electric cargocycles up to 25 km/h and 250W are currently allowed on public roads in the Netherlands without such approval. The Dutch government has never reported structural technical problems with these vehicles. E-scooters and self-balancing vehicles are already subject to Dutch approval, although that currently goes against the Netherlands’ own legislation. The approval is anything but a success; there are hardly any approved vehicles on the road.

  European Member States cannot just introduce national technical rules. That is regulated by Directive 2015/1535. This law states: “Barriers to trade resulting from technical regulations relating to products may be allowed only where they are necessary in order to meet essential requirements and have an objective in the public interest of which they constitute the main guarantee.“

  LEVA-EU has pointed out to the EU Commission that the vehicles concerned are excluded from Regulation 168/2013, following Article 2.2, and are therefore subject to the essential health and safety requirements as required by the Machinery Directive, following Article 1.2(e) 3rd indent, as well as to the EMC and RoHS-Directive. These Directives provide for EU harmonized technical requirements for the vehicles excluded from Regulation 168/2013.

  Furthermore, for so-called Personal Light Electric Vehicles (PLEVs), i.e. e-scooters and self-balancing vehicles, there is a European standard, EN 17128. For electric cargocycles, CEN TC333 – WG9 is currently developing European standards, which will be published in the near future. The secretariat of this Working Group is held by the Dutch standardization institute NEN!

  As for the grounds for these technical requirements, the Dutch authorities state that the requirements are necessary to ensure road safety. “Setting requirements on the structure of special mopeds for the use phase provides the best and most direct assurance of road safety.” The term special mopeds in this instance refers to electric cargocycles, e-scooters and self-balancing vehicles.

  However, the Dutch authorities do not explain which road safety problems these technical requirements are meant to tackle. What’s more, the Netherlands has recently openly stated its support for the new Machinery Regulation as the European legislative technical framework for the vehicles concerned. The Commission had proposed to exclude all road vehicles, not under Regulation 168/2013, from the new Machinery Regulation. Together with the other EU Member States, the Netherlands has gone against this Commission proposal and voted to keep the vehicles in the Machinery Regulation.

  The EU technical legislation, i.e. the Machinery -, EMC- and RoHS Directive, is sufficient to ensure the required technical safety level for the vehicles. That is clear from the fact that other Member States, such as France and Belgium, have not introduced additional technical requirements on the vehicles concerned, whilst having allowed them on public roads for several years. This has not resulted in unusually high accident rates that would result from a lack of technical safety in the vehicles.

  If the Netherlands were to effectively implement these national technical requirements, this will undoubtedly have a negative impact on the supply of electric cargocycles, self-balancing vehicles and vehicles without a seating position in the Netherlands. Manufacturers will rather choose markets where they can go with European harmonised vehicles. A shrinking supply will in turn jeopardise the sustainability of mobility in the Netherlands with all its negative consequences in terms of emissions, combating climate change, road safety, public health, etc. This would be a particularly bad effect for the Netherlands and its citizens.

  For all these reasons, LEVA-EU calls on all Light Electric Vehicle companies with an interest in electric cargocycles, e-scooters and self-balacing vehicles to support LEVA-EU’s request to the Commission and the Member States to reject the Dutch technical regulations. The full text of that request is here: LEVA-EU contribution

  You can express your support in a simple way. Go to Notification Number 2022/673/NL. Under the notification itself, there are two buttons: “message” and “contribution”. Click on “contribution” where you can enter the details of your company and state your support for LEVA-EU’s request.

  You could for instance state: “Our company fully joins LEVA-EU in this request to reject the Dutch technical regulations. We also join LEVA-EU’s renewed call for a European harmonised legislative framework for light electric vehicles, outside Regulation 168/2013 and outside the Machinery Directive/Regulation.“

  Please note that the deadline to contribute is Thursday 23 March, so please do it NOW.

  For any further details please contact LEVA-EU Manager, Annick Roetynck: annick@leva-eu.com, tel. +32 475 500 588

  Thanks in advance for your support!

• ICBF 2023 to take place on 24-26th November at Fully Charged Europe in Amsterdam

  20/02/2023 09:41 Comments Off on ICBF 2023 to take place on 24-26th November at Fully Charged Europe in Amsterdam

  Fully Charged LIVE, the world’s no.1 clean energy & electric vehicle show, is one of the fastest growing exhibitions globally with 6 shows scheduled in 2023, including Australia, Canada, Europe, the UK and the US. The show in Amsterdam, end of November, will include the International Cargo Bike Festival (ICBF).

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  Fully Charged LIVE is a ‘festival of electrification’ with decarbonisation at its heart. Events feature an array of relevant visitor attractions including the ‘Home Energy Advice Team’, ‘Electric Launchpad’ and ‘Watt Drive?’

  Fully Charged LIVE and the International Cargo Bike Festival (ICBF) have announced a partnership that will see the world’s foremost cargo bike expo line up alongside November’s Amsterdam show. The ICBF, which has been running since 2012, is known as the event where the cargo bike world gathers to explore the latest trends in family cycling, pedal-powered logistics and much more.

  Taking place in a freestanding area alongside Fully Charged LIVE, the ICBF will host around 70 exhibitors showcasing two, three and four-wheeler cargo bikes for personal use as well as for organisations, plus a test track on which to take them for a spin. In addition, there will be a whole host of inspiring and informative talks and sessions featuring speakers from across the world; both on the main Fully Charged LIVE stages and on a special International Cargo Bike Festival mini-stage.

  Jos Sluijsmans, Director & Founder of the ICBF, said: “We are thrilled to be working with the team at Fully Charged LIVE. We’re passionate about cargo bikes and working with them allows us to build on our success so far; scaling up our reach and impact. There’s so much enthusiasm, knowledge and innovation in the cargo bike industry and we want to put that in the spotlight.”

  Maarten Pompen, Event Director, Fully Charged LIVE Europe, said: “The Fully Charged SHOW is about much more than just electric cars. We share the same goals as the International Cargo Bike Festival and this partnership further demonstrates our commitment to encourage individuals and institutions to #StopBurningStuff. We’re hyped to work together with the ICBF team to cooperate on creating the most inspiring event we can. We can’t wait to welcome everyone in November and know this partnership will ensure that the second edition of Fully Charged LIVE Europe is even bigger and better than the previous edition.”

  Tom Parr, ICBF Co-organiser, said: “We’ve dubbed the 2020s the ‘#DecadeoftheCargoBike’, and we’re confident that by working with Fully Charged LIVE, we can do our bit to ensure that by 2030, the cargo bike has truly reached the mainstream. As we strive towards climate and social justice, the cargo bike has a crucial role to play; this partnership allows us to spread this message even wider.”

  Participation as an Exhibitor

  You want to participate as an exhibitor at the ICBF at Fully Charged LIVE Europe 2023, please have a look at the Salesdeck for all the information.

• LEVA-EU open letter to Vice-President Timmermans: “LEV-industry needs regulatory clarity”

  16/02/2023 17:39 Comments Off on LEVA-EU open letter to Vice-President Timmermans: “LEV-industry needs regulatory clarity”

  On 14 February, the European Parliament adopted a ban on new internal combustion engine cars as of 2035. This ban was originally proposed by Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans. Just before the vote, Mr Timmermans made a fervent plea for the car industry. This prompted LEVA-EU to send him an open letter requesting an equally fervent plea for the LEV-industry.

  Open letter to Mr Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission

  Dear Mr Timmermans,

  Congratulations on the European ban on internal combustion engine cars from 2035, approved by the European Parliament on 14 February. This is undoubtedly an important step in reducing emissions in the fight against climate change.

  At last year’s Polis conference in Brussels, you wished participants “great mobility solutions shared by all“. And you promised to “support us in any way you could to make it happen“. LEVA-EU, the European trade association for companies in the light electric vehicle (LEVs) sector, hereby calls on you to honour that promise now.

  You said in the European Parliament on 14 February that the future lies in electrification. LEVA-EU agrees with you as far as electrification is concerned. However, electrification alone is not enough. The future is electric AND light.

  Indeed, electric cars offer zero emissions at the tailpipe. However, life-cycle analysis yields a less positive result. The production of electric cars results in higher emissions than those of combustion engine cars.

  You can read this on page 28 of the attached report LEV4Climate, which LEVA-EU commissioned from DLR last year. The same report also shows the huge potential of LEVs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. LEVs can replace 77% of all car trips according to DLR’s theoretical model, which would result in 44% less CO2 equivalent. The trips for which LEVs replace cars would even save 88% emissions compared to a situation where all trips are done by car.

  

  LEVs are not futuristic concoctions. There is a diverse range on the market that appeals to very different target groups. LEVs are all electric vehicles covered by Regulation 168/2013 and all electric vehicles excluded by Article 2.2 of that Regulation. The DLR survey used 9 different LEV types that are already on the market or will become available very soon. It is clear from the overview on pages 5 and 18 of the study that the world is already far beyond the bicycles and micromobility that the European Union still talks about by default.

  LEVA-EU calls for a systematic uniform application of the term Light Electric Vehicle (LEV) or Light Electric Mobility (LEM) in European policy and legal texts. The EU now juggles terms for which there is no uniform definition such as micromobility, active mobility, light means of transport (LMTs), personal mobility devices (PMDs), … The lack of a harmonised and consistent designation for this sustainable mobility solution leads to catastrophic mistakes for LEVs in legislation, as happened recently with the future Machinery Regulation and the future Battery Regulation. Introducing the concept of LEV or LEM can help solve and/or avoid that problem.

  Besides emission reduction, LEVs offer all kinds of other advantages over cars: much less space occupation, more traffic safety, much better for public health, much more social (they contribute to social inclusion, for example), …

  In the European Parliament, you also said, “We need to provide regulatory clarity to the car industry so that they know in which direction to move: that of zero emissions at the tailpipe.“

  Now that the European Union has assured that regulatory clarity to the automotive industry, we hereby officially ask you to really work on regulatory clarity for the European LEV industry.

  That industry is currently hampered by inadequate, European legislation especially in terms of technical rules and international trade to the extent that LEV companies are forced to “remain stuck in the past“. This industry deserves as fervent a plea as the one you made for the car industry in Parliament.

  Numerous obstacles prevent this industry from looking to the future. We will give you just two of many concrete examples.

  Electric bikes that are also propelled by the motor alone and scooters with saddles cannot currently enter the market. Europe has an estimated 87 million people with some kind of disability. Consequently, this means that European legislation denies millions of citizens access to vehicles that are not only environmentally friendly but could also significantly improve their quality of life.

  European cities are turning en masse to electric cargocycles to make urban logistics more sustainable. In cities with hilly terrain, those electric cargocycles are needlessly hampered in their development by European regulations and conservatism. As an example, LEVA-EU has been in discussion with the European Commission for five years about the legal status of an innovative chainless system for those cargo bikes. The patience of international postal companies and distributors is gradually running out. Without legal certainty, they will not swap polluting vans for eco-friendly cargocycles.

  Not to mention electric scooters that are not allowed on public roads in the Netherlands, L7 microcars denied the subsidies that electric SUVs enjoy in Germany, speed pedelecs subjected to an EMISSION TEST in their type-approval, and so on and so forth.

  Specifically, we request that you initiate consultations with LEVA-EU as soon as possible in which we will provide you with all further details on the obstacles that currently prevent LEV companies from looking to the future. Moreover, we can immediately provide you with solutions to overcome these obstacles. This is a first, necessary step to provide “regulatory clarity” for the LEV sector as well, to enable them to move in the direction of very significant emissions reductions and of true, sustainable mobility.

  We look forward to engaging with you and your services as soon as possible.

  In anticipation of your response, we remain,

  Yours sincerely,

  Annick Roetynck,
  LEVA-EU Manager

• LEVA-EU joins Small Business Standards (SBS)

  06/02/2023 17:10 Comments Off on LEVA-EU joins Small Business Standards (SBS)

  LEVA-EU has recently become a full member of Small Business Standards (SBS), the voice of European Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in standardisation. LEVA-EU’s board member, Eddie Eccleston, has been working as SBS-expert for three years. This positive cooperation convinced LEVA-EU of the need for a closer relationship with SBS.

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  One of the key activities of LEVA-EU is standardization. Annick Roetynck, Bram Rotthier and Eddie Eccleston are working in CEN TC 333 – cycles and IEC 125 – e-Transporters, whilst LEVA-EU is also member of TC 354 for PLEVs and ISO TC 149/SC1. The main objective of this work is to contribute to the development of adequate and high-quality standards, which may be easily applied by SMEs. More than 90% of LEVA-EU members are SMEs.

  On arrival in these standardisation committees, LEVA-EU found that there were very few SMEs involved in the work. Therefore, Eddie Eccleston was put forward as a candidate to work as SBS-expert.

  Small Business Standards (SBS) was selected by the European Commission to represent SMEs in the standardisation process, motivate them to get involved and raise their awareness about standardisation. In this context SBS appoints experts who represent the European SME position in standardisation Technical Committees, among which CEN.

  Furthermore, LEVA-EU tried to tackle the lack of SME-involvement, by building support for the SBS expert’s SME-friendly positions and approach by convincing their members to become active in standardisation themselves. They have persuaded a considerable number of LEVA-EU members to effectively join the standardization work in CEN TC 333. As a result, there is now a lot more attention and support for SME-proof standards.

  However, LEVA-EU felt a growing need for a closer cooperation with SBS to be able to deal with the issue of SME-involvement. “Also, we worked closely together with SBS on the Machinery Regulation, which made it clear to us that a closer cooperation with SBS would strengthen our lobby work for certain issues, which are directly relevant to the LEV-business such as the new Machinery and Battery Regulation”, LEVA-EU Manager Annick Roetynck explains. She continues: “What’s more, the other 21 SBS-members represent a large variety of SMEs, ranging from timber construction to ICT SMEs. They may well be interested in learning from LEVA-EU about sustainable mobility, through the use of Light Electric Vehicles. We are truly excited about our SBS-membership.”

  SBS Secretary General, Maitane Olabarria, welcomed LEVA-EU with the words: “The light electric vehicles sector is a developing dynamic sector. Standardisation plays an important role in its development, and we are looking forward to being able to further support European SMEs in this area together with LEVA-EU.”

• Visit LEVA-EU at B2B Festival by NieuwsFiets.nu

  30/01/2023 17:53 Comments Off on Visit LEVA-EU at B2B Festival by NieuwsFiets.nu

  On Sunday 12 and Monday 13 February 2023, NieuwsFiets Media & Events is organising the NieuwsFiets.nu B2B FESTIVAL for the first time in the Brabanthallen in Den Bosch (NL). The event takes place just before the start of the 2023 (e)cycling season and also offers an opportunity to look ahead to 2024. LEVA-EU will also be there!

  LEVA-EU Manager Annick Roetynck will be at the LEVA-EU stand full-time on Sunday and Monday. She will explain to all interested parties the activities of LEVA-EU, such as standardisation work with CEN and IEC, lobby work for adapted LEV regulations, e.g. regarding the Dutch LEV framework, but also the new Machinery Regulation and the Battery Regulation, etc. She will also clarify LEVA-EU’s initiatives to raise awareness on the potential of LEVs. The Speed Pedelec White Paper and the DLR report on the potential for saving GHG emissions through LEVs are key assets in this regard.

  She also hopes to be able to inform quite a few companies in the Brabanthallen about the benefits of LEVA-EU membership. Anyone wishing to book an appointment with Annick Roetynck can do so via the following link: https://calendly.com/annick_leva-eu/b2b

  If you are professionally active in the LEV-business, you can visit the B2B event for free. You can register and obtain a badge in advance here: https://www.databadge.net/nff2023/reg/?link=a05b6a4b6b3f5f061692&lan=NL

  Tot ziens!