ECED GENERAL MEETING IN AMSTERDAM 2001
a brief overview of the issues on the agenda:
Theft prevention
It was recorded that the number of stolen machinery has increased as
can be seen in the following outline of “2001 CECE Congress, Anti theft
measures":
Overview of stolen machines per annum:
USA : $ 1.5 billion
UK : Euro 0.7 billion
Germany : Euro 0.7 billion
France : Euro 0.3 billion
The Netherlands : Euro 0.07 billion
(50% registered)
It appeared that the average customer experienced a greater production loss because of theft than because of repair and maintenance. ECED has therefore unanimously decided to adopt the Internet site developed by BMWT to report all stolen machinery in order to make a European network available for registering and making visible stolen equipment.
Continuance of the machine guideline
The continuance of the machine guideline – seen from the European perspective – causes the following problems:
· Lack of control on the access to non EC-marked machines.
· Fraudulent EC-marking of machines.
· Insufficient progress harmonized standards.
It was proposed to support a European investigation about illegal import as recently initiated by the Dutch and British governments.
Work equipment guidelineNational governments have the opportunity to develop an additional policy in the field of working equipment and The Netherlands have seized this opportunity with a lot of enthusiasm. This national policy also has a number of European dimensions such as:
· periodical security inspections. Each country has its own regulations as to who carries out the inspection, how frequently and for which machines.
· expertise regulations. A number of regulations have been formulated that relate to how to train. The issue is not about the required level of expertise but about what degree was obtained where.