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Here you find a list of major activities of ECF:
Meetings, conferences, publications, positions,...

The 2nd Catalan Bicycle Conference will approach three questions that are related to the extension of the phenomenon of the bicycle: Communication, Health and Education. Within the conference, ECF is organizing a dedicated workshop on "Police and the Bicycle”. We will become acquainted with the police corps as bicycle users and in their task of law, regulation and by-law application.

For accessing the offical website of the conference click here: http://www.congresbicicat.org/
 

Brussels, April 28 – May it be called “Human Powered Mobility”, “Unmotorized transport” or “Active travel” – the European Cyclists’ Federation and the Protestant Academy Tutzing together invited to reflect on cycling policy in Europe from April 20-22 in Tutzing near Munich on the shore of the Starnberg Lake. Around 50 people from 10 European countries followed this call and analyzed this vast topic in plenaries and workshops from different angles. The often difficult relationship between the bicycle and car (industry) as the main element of "motorised transport" was addressed by Manfred Neun, ECF President, in his opening speech.

Foto: ECF President Manfred Neun, taken by Foto-Radwelt-das ADFC Magazin, www.adfc.de.
 

From left: Annick Roetynck (ETRA), Reinhard Rack (MEP), Dr Bernhard Ensink (ECF) and Greet Engelen (Colibi/Coliped).

Brussels, April 16 - After the European Commission published its Green Paper on Urban Mobility last year, it’s now up to the European Parliament to deliver an opinion on it. In this process, Member of European Parliament Reinhard Rack, rapporteur on the Green Paper in the responsible Transport and Tourism Committee, plays a key role. Therefore ECF joined forces with the European Twowheel Retailers’ Association (ETRA) and with the European Bicycle Industry (COLIBI/COLIPED) to discuss common ideas with Mr Rack. These include more thorough research, data and statistics on cycling in Europe as well as the revision of the allocation of European resources with a view to improving and increasing cycling in Europe, among other. Mr Rack, who is likely to receive more than 300 amendments on his draft report said: "You can be sure that you will have fairly strong support from the European Parliament for promoting cycle usage in European transport policy." ECF therefore looks forward to the vote in the committee on May 27/28 and in the plenary in June. The European Parliament opinion will have a crucial impact on the Action Plan the European Commission is coming up with this autumn.
 

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia saw the launch of a global alliance for ecomobility. More than 30 global companies, business and user associations, expert organizations, local governments and United Nations agencies have joined together in a partnership for the integrated promotion of walking, cycling, wheeling and ‘passenging’ (the use of public transport) in cities.

ECF Vice-Presidents Käthi Diethelm, Doretta Vicini, Adam Bodor and Mirko Radovanac (from left) and Secretary General Dr Bernhard Ensink (center) in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

The new EuroVelo signposting has now been integrated into the Swiss national signpositing system. For that purpose, ECF Management Committee took a look and visited the EuroVelo 6 route in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

From left: MEP Erik Meijer, Natascha van Bennekom, Dutch Cyclists' Association and
Frans van Schoot, ECF Vice-President. 

"All trains should allow bicycle carriage on trains, including high-speed trains." That was the key message the European Cyclists’ Federation presented during its Parliamentary evening to the present Members of the European Parliament in Brussels. Bicycle tourism such as on the EuroVelo 6 Route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea is taking off across Europe. This positive trend can only be continued if cyclists can enjoy a safe and comfortable bicycle carriage to the route and back home.

Read here the full report.  071129_report.pdf
 

The European Cyclists´ Federation and its member ADFC, Germany had a common booth at the world's biggest bicycle fair EUROBIKE in Friedrichshafen. In the very first time in the history of the federation on the ECF press conference the  most important players of the European bicycle industry came together as speakers.

Zur Velo-city Konferenz 2007, die vom 12. – 15. Juni in München stattfindet, werden zwischen 500 und 700 internationale Fahrradexperten, Wissenschaftler, Touristiker, Mediziner, Umweltexperten und Politiker aus mehr als 40 Ländern erwartet. Unter dem Motto "From Vision to Reality" - diskutieren hochrangige Vertreter von europäischen Regierungen, Organisationen und Unternehmen Umsetzungsstrategien und Best Practice-Beispiele der Radverkehrsförderung als wesentliche Säule der nachhaltigen Mobilität. Kontakt & Info www.velo-city2007.com

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted last week in Brussels a document on cycling presented by Rapporteur-general Prof. dr. mr. Jan Simons to the plenary assembly. The German Ministry of Transport asked on behalf of the current German Presidency of Europe the EESC for an exploratory opinion about the state of cycling policy in Europe and especially about the promotion of cross-border cycle transport.

Brussel, April 19th 2007.
The ECF Office hosted the press conference  of the big cyclists event in Brussels: Bicycity.
20 participants, journalists and cyclist activists joined the press conference in the ECF office, where the President of GRACQ, Mr Bernard Dehaye, the President of Fietsersbond Mr Koen van Wonterghem and the Referent of the Ministry of the Brussels Region Mr Alain Vandenplas launched the cyclist event by their presentations. The speakers mentioned already the other big event approaching Brussels, the Velo-city Conference 2009.

Brussels, 12 January 2007
ECF President Manfred Neun and ETRA President Nigel Hill have recently signed an agreement in principle on the cooperation between their respective organisations

The European Cyclists´ Federation has participated on the conference "The Danube - Main road of Europe", held in Brussels, 10-11 October 2006. The host of the event was the Representation of the State of Baden-Württenberg, Germany to the EU.  

Become an exhibitor at the international cycling conference – Information for Exhibitors
The Velo-city 2007, Munich organisation presents the flyer “Information for Exhibitors” for Velo-City 2007 to you today and invites you to present your trend-setting products and concepts for bicycle transport promotion at Velo-City 2007.

To promote EuroVelo6, its conceptors and partners have organised an inaugural trip from October 7 to 15, 2006. Over a hundred people participated on the tour.

Existing largely thanks to support of the regions and cities that EuroVelo6 passes through, the event was designed for cycling enthusiasts of all levels. A circuit that passed through Germany, Switzerland and France, unique for its sheer extent and the diversity of its content.

At the world's biggest bicycle fair EUROBIKE in Friedrichshafen the ECF was represented with its own stand.  Supported by the German Federal Ministry of Transport the Velo-city Conference in 2007 in Munich was primarily communicated and contacts cultivated to business, press and other associations.

Biking the Balkans, the international caravan of cyclists organized jointly by UNESCO and ECF, on its way through the Balkan countries spent 2 days in Belgrade.

The 1st Catalan Congress of the Bicycle took place in Barcelona from 7th to 11th of june 2006. The European Cyclists´ Federation was presented by its member BACC, Bicicleta Club de Catalunya (member of ConBici) and by its chairman Haritz Ferrando. The banner session and the ECF bruchures atrracted the visitors of the event.

The new Secretary General of the ECF, Dr Bernhard Ensink, presented on the ECOMM 2006 conference, 10-12 May, Groningen, Netherlands, in a key-note paper his vision on the Dutch Bike-experience: the history and the results of the Masterplan Fiets.

As answer to ECF President Manfred Neun on the ECF concerns about the bicycle helmet issue.
ECF letter of 19 November 2005: www.ecf.com/1021_1

"..We were all very pleased to hear your highly engaged and very positive speech on cycling at the Velo-city conference in Dublin the 3rd June. We look forward to co-operating with you and DG TREN on the promotion of best practice for cycling..