Bird & Bird in association with CLEPA and Automobil-Industrie have the pleasure of inviting you to the next annual international automotive conference, Automotive Connect, taking place on 9 March 2017 in Frankfurt am Main. Legal and non-legal experts from the industry will provide commercial perspectives...
On the 9th of December, the European Commission adopted the report on the operation of the system of access to vehicle repair and maintenance information. Vehicle manufacturers are required under European legislation to ensure that independent operators have easy, restriction-free and standardised access to vehicle RMI...
On 6 December 2016, the Forum for Mobility & Society issued a set of recommendations to EU policymakers in calling for improved efforts when it comes to reaching road safety targets. The document was launched during a lunch debate on road safety in Europe. The event...
How to continually generate sustainable value in further maturing and competitive procurement environments Many organizations have professionalized their direct material procurement in recent years, yet pressure on continually leveraging savings potential remains the top priority of today´s CPOs – but how can companies manage to achieve...
On November 30 2016, the European Commission adopted a European Strategy on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), a milestone initiative towards cooperative, connected and automated mobility. The Strategy will make it possible to deploy vehicles that can "talk" to each other and to the transport infrastructure on...
Brussels, 1 December 2016 - Europe’s automobile manufacturers and automotive suppliers have announced that they are joining forces to find a solution for secure and safe access to vehicle data to interested market participants. This announcement was made today by the sectors’ associations – the...
This November, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) published a study entitled "Low carbon cars in the 2020s: Consumer impacts and EU policy implications". This study takes a look at the political, economic and social trends that will affect the decarbonisation of the road transport sector. Key...
The European Commission’s new project - the Coordination of Automated Road Transport in Europe (CARTRE) – launched on November 2-3, 2016, at its kick-off event at Volvo Trucks Belgium in Brussels. The two day event gathered stakeholders to discuss the CARTRE project, its Work Packages, activities...
On November 11 2016, Continental and the University of Oxford announced that they are now conducting joint research in the field of artificial intelligence. The partnership between Continental and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford will focus on the possible uses and...
On 1 November, JOST Group joined us at CLEPA as a Corporate Member, bringing our membership to more than 120. JOST Group was established in 1952 and has since become a leading manufacturer of components for commercial vehicles which are marketed under the brands JOST,...