The CARS 21 High Level Group on 1 December 2011 adopted its interim report which covers the group’s consensus on the topics covered by it so far. FIGIEFA welcomes the CARS 21 process but is disappointed that the focus of the Interim Report centres almost exclusively on the manufacturing side of the automotive sector.

The Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) approved the report of Antonio Panzeri (Socialist Party/Italy) on the type-approval of agricultural and forestry vehicles and also the report of Wim van de Camp (Conservative Party/Netherlands) on the type-approval of two-or three-wheel vehicles and quadricycles.

At the occasion of the FIGIEFA/SDCM Congress 2011 held in Warsaw on the 29th of September 2011, Mr. Philippe Jean, Head of the Automotive Unit at DG Enterprise & Industry has clarified the Commission's interpretation of the access to Repair and Maintenance Information (RMI) provisions of the recently adopted Regulation 566/2011.