The United Nations have approved changes to the regulation that describes how your motorcycle helmet has to be produced and tested. These are the first changes in almost twenty years. FEMA's Wim Taal explains the most notable changes. The UN regulation No. 22 applies to motorcycle helmets licensed to be sold

The United Nations (UN) adopted a regulation that will allow automated vehicles to be in primary control from January 2021. FEMA first wants to see evidence that motorcycles are detected. The UN Regulation establishes requirements for Automated Lane Keeping Systems (ALKS) for passenger cars which, once activated, are in primary control

More than 90 percent of Europe's motorcyclists will take a motorcycle holiday this summer and they are willing to spend their money. Recent news about stricter sound checks in certain countries has not affected their holiday plans. FEMA conducted a quick on-line survey to find out how many motorcyclists will travel

FEMA's Dolf Willigers looks at motorcycle bans in Austria, and points out some flaws in the research that led to some drastic consequences for motorcyclists. From 10 June 2020 to 31 October 2020 some well-known roads in Austria will be closed to all motorcycles with a registered standing sound emission of

Let’s not fool ourselves: no crash barrier is really safe for motorcyclists, but smart designers are able to think of barrier systems that could improve motorcyclists’ safety. FEMA talked to Roberto Impero, general manager at SMA Road Safety, the Italian company that developed and produces the Andromeda barrier, a so-called ‘smart

The motorcycle industry wants to be able to sell Euro 4 bikes after 31 December 2020. ACEM, the European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers, has asked the European Commission to extend the time to sell Euro 4-compliant motorcycles because of the COVID-19 situation. FEMA supports this request. On 1 January 2020, a

Following complaints about the ‘extremely annoying’ noise of motorcycles, the German Federal Council wants action against motorcycle noise. On Friday 15 May 2020, the German Bundesrat (the federal council of the state governments) formally called for measures to reduce sound emissions from motorcycles. The final decision will be made by the federal

The Dutch government considers to make it possible for holders of a B licence to obtain an A1 licence without doing the theory test, as part of the Coronavirus exit strategy and the to be expected traffic jams, due to the social distancing measures. Dutch manufacturers- and importers association RAI Vereniging

From 1 November 2020 it is possible to do the A2-licence test with a 250 cc motorcycle instead of 400 cc. On 5 May 2020 the European Union published the Commission Directive (EU) 2020/612, amending Directive 2006/126/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on driving licences, which will

A FEMA survey shows that motorcyclists are not too positive about most new techniques that are supposed to improve road safety. Especially when the systems interfere with the riding, they are often qualified as useless or even dangerous. In 2019 FEMA repeated the survey on ITS for motorcycles that was done