ACEM, the Motorcycle Industry in Europe, is the professional body representing the interests and combined skills of 11 powered two wheelers (PTWs) manufacturers producing a total of 22 motorcycle and moped brands, and 14 national associations at European level out of 13 European countries, representing a turn-over of 10 bn EURO in EU and assuring jobs to over 200.000 people.

Contact:
Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée 1, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Telephone: +32 2 230 9732
E-mail: acem@acem.eu
Website: www.acem.eu

The Federation of European Motorcyclists' Association is the European organisation representing the interests of road riding motorcyclists within the institutions of the European Union, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and other relevant inter-governmental and non-governmental bodies. FEMA and its twenty-four affiliated national motorcyclists' associations exist primarily to address legislative, safety, training and consumer issues with intention of ensuring that the voice of the road-riding motorcyclists is heard within the international legislative and policy-making processes.

Contact:
Rue des Champs 62, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Telephone: +32 2 736 9047
E-mail: info@fema-online.eu
Website: www.fema-online.eu

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme is the world motorcycling federation. Whilst it is primarily concerned with regulating all forms of motorcycling sport, FIM also takes an interest in public policy and road safety matters through its Commission for Mobility, Transport, Road Safety and Public Policy (CMT). CMT meetings, which take place every six months allow representatives from FIM's affiliated organisations to develop policies with representatives of the motorcycle manufacturers and other riders' organisations.

Contact:
11 route Suisse, CH-1295 Mies, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 950 9500
E-mail: info@fim.ch
Website: www.fim.ch

The Swedish road administration Vägverket is the national authority responsible for the entire road transport system in Sweden. This includes drawing up and applying regulations and the planning, construction operation and maintenance of Sweden's roads. Vägverket's responsibilities include representing the State in issues relating to the environmental impact of the road transport system, road traffic safety, vehicles, public transport and intelligent transport systems. They also cover applied research and development and demonstration activities within Sweden's road transport system.

Contact:
Röda vägen 1, 781 87 Borlänge, Sweden
Telephone: +46 771 119 11
E-mail: vagverket@vv.se
Website: www.vv.se

The Directorate-General for Energy and Transport ((DG TREN - Road Safety Unit (E3)) is responsible for developing and implementing European policies in the transport field. It ensures that transport policies are designed for the benefit of all sectors of society, businesses, cities, rural areas and, above all, the citizen. D-G Tren, as it is generally known, carries out its tasks using legislative proposals and programme management, including the financing of projects. The Initial Rider Training project is an example of the support given, the objectives of which are consistent with the European Commission's objective of reducing road traffic deaths and injuries by half by the year 2010.

Contact:
Rue de Mot, 24, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Telephone: +32 2 298 64 09
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/transport/roadsafety/index_en.htm

Jacques Compagne
Jacques Compagne is the Secretary General of ACEM, the European motorcycle manufacturers' association, Following his graduation from the Institut Universitaire de Technology at Nancy in 1972 and the Institut Supérieur des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, Paris in 1985, Jacques worked in a number of marketing and public affairs management positions within Peugeot Motorcycles, a subsidiary of PSA Peugeot Citroen, who manufacture a range of scooters and motorcycles from 50 to 250cc.
In 1996 Jacques was elected as Chairman of ACEM's Co-ordinating Committee and in 1998 became the Secretary General of France's national motorcycle industry association, the Chambre Syndicale National de Motocycle, a position he held until his appointment as ACEM's Secretary General. Jacques is married with two daughters.

Achilles Damen
As the public prosecutor in the district court of Almelo in the Netherlands, Achilles Damen specialises in traffic law enforcement. Holding a Master's degree in law from Tilburg University, he also teaches criminal law and criminal procedure at Hogeschool Utrecht.
Achilles is the President of the FIM's Commission on road safety and public policy Committee, an area of responsibility that he also holds on the management council of the Royal Dutch motorcyclists' federation, KNMV. He is also a member of the board of the Dutch Lawyers' Motorcycle Group.
Achilles has been riding motorcycles since he was eighteen years old and is married with two children.

Antonio Perlot
Antonio Perlot was the Secretary General of FEMA, the Federation of European Motorcyclists' Associations, a position he hold from 2002 to 2006, having joined FEMA as their Campaigns Officer in 2001.
Holding both the Italian and Swedish nationalities, Antonio graduated in Political Sciences, with a focus on European integration. This was followed with a post-graduate course in international relations. Before joining FEMA he worked in the NGO sector in Rome and as a consultant in European Public Affairs in Brussels.

Hans-Yngve Berg
Hans-Yngve Berg has a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Social Medicine and Public Health Science), from Linkoping University, Sweden, and has been working as a researcher at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute from 1991-1995 and 1997-2000. Between 1995 and 1997 he was working as a specialist on traffic safety issues at the Swedish National Society for Road Safety.
Dr. Berg is now working as a Driver Education Specialist at the Swedish National Road Administration, Borlänge, Sweden. His duties is mainly to try to develop the Swedish and European driver education system and ordering and handling research projects in the field of behavioural Sciences conducted by universities and other independent research units. One of his duties is also to give information and support to the public, to different authorities and to people involved in the area of traffic safety. He is also lecturer on under- and postgraduate level at universities and in teachers college, mainly on the topics of driver education and research methodology.
At the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute Dr. Berg was mainly working with research and development on young driver specific problems in traffic. He was also carrying out research and development on driver education, including special driver training programs and curricula's, with the aim of reducing young drivers overrisk in the beginning of their driving career. His work at the National Society for Road Safety was to develop traffic safety campaigns and establish models and routines for continuous statistical analysis and evaluations of traffic safety issues and campaigns. He was also at that timer giving information and support to the public, to other authorities and to people involved in the area of traffic safety.

Marie-Axelle Granie
Marie-Axelle Granie is a member of the Department of Driver Psychology in the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS).
In 1997, she obtained her PhD in Psychology at the Toulouse le Mirail University. For her PhD, she worked on the effects of parental educative practices on gender development.
Since 2000, she has worked on traffic safety educational issues for children up to 15 years of age. She specialises in developmental social psychology on socialization, rules construction, effects of social environment, gender differences, and representations, attitudes toward risk and road safety.
She first worked on assessments of educational actions such as in 2000 a preschool educative action in road safety and the national educative action for initial rider training called Road Safety Licence (Brevet de Sécurité Routiere) in 2001.
In 2002, she participated in the construction of an educative software programme using virtual environment for the young pedestrians and in 2003, she constructed a competences index for the skills involved in every transportation mode with the National Ministry of Education.

Ian Lee
Ian Lee is the General Manager of the British Motorcyclists Federation Rider Training Scheme (BMF RTS) and has been involved with rider training since 1973 when he started as a volunteer. He launched his own rider training school in 1979 and became a professional car driving instructor in 1983. He holds a Diploma in Driving Instruction.
In 1996 Ian was appointed as General Manager of the BMF RTS and has been closely involved with the changing legislation affecting training and licensing requirements in the United Kingdom. He has been involved in the development of a professional qualification for post test instructors and is overseeing the implementation of various changes to the UK licensing laws which apply to the 125 instructors that he is responsible for.
He is a fully qualified Driving Standards Agency (DSA) approved motorcycle riding instructor at both basic level and for direct access. Ian has also been involved in the compilation of the European Motorcycle Safety Agenda and he sits on the BMF's Political and Technical Services Committee (BMF PTS) with responsibility for rider licensing and training matters.

Roger Renoy
Roger is an officer of the Belgian Federal Police, previously the Gendarmerie. Holding the rank of Commander, he has been in charge of the police vehicle riding and driving school for more than 20 years. He has also been the senior officer of the motorcycle close protection unit for the King of Belgium for the past nine years.
As President of the Belgian Motorcycle Council, a position held since 2000, Roger represents the interests of the motorcyclists in discussions and negotiations with the Belgian authorities. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Belgian Institute for Road Safety, where he specialises in all the matters regarding powered two-wheelers
Roger has also been an instructor for Category A and B licence examiners (technical and theoretical) for more than 20 years and is the President of the official examination team of the Ministry of Mobility for the selection of the new driving teachers (category A and B). He is member of the Steering Committee of the Belgian Federation of the Driving Schools, being their expert on all aspects of the A licence. Roger was also one of seven specialists involved in the development of the second European Driving Licence Directive
He is the author of a book on how to learn to ride a motorbike and nine years ago established the first advanced riding school in Belgium at Nivelles. Roger recently joined FIM's Commission for Mobility and Transport and is a committed attendee of motorcycling conferences and seminars.

Roger Renoy passed away on September 7, 2007.

Brane Legan
Brane Legan is the member of the IRT Supervisory Board who comes from one of the ten new European Union Member States. He is a police officer working at the Slovenian Ministry of Internal Affairs where he is the Head of the Academy responsible for the training of police motorcycle riders, drivers and their instructors.
Qualified to the highest level for instructors in Germany and Austria, Brane is also the senior instructor at AMZS, the Slovenian national motorcycle and car club. He is a frequent contributor to the motoring press with over a 100 articles on safe riding of powered two-wheelers to his credit and is regularly consulted as his country's leading expert by Slovenian radio and television.
Brane has also be involved with schools traffic education programmes and was a member of the Commission that developed the training programme for candidates seeking both the A and B licences in Slovenia.

Peter Smirz
Peter Smirz qualified in Engineering and Management Studies and from 1964 until 1978 worked in the automotive industry in varying management positions in his home country of Austria and the USA, Germany and Great Britain. Included in his responsibilities was the development of motorcycle business's dealership.
Since 1978 Peter has been a self-employed consultant, dealing with the automotive business (including motorbikes), traffic systems and road safety. He is the Director of driving school and is also responsible for the education of instructors. He is the co-author of Curriculum class A (Austria) and is in charge of training of second phase instructors, classes A and B, on behalf of Austrian Ministry of Transport.
Since 1976 has been the General Secretary and is currently Senior-Vice-President of the International Association for Driver Education (IVV); a UN recognised NGO. He has been involved with various EU funded projects including the Young Rider of the Year events and the post licence training project Advanced. Since1979 Peter has been an International FIM steward and speedway referee and is also a journalist, a member of Austrian Motor Press Club, specialising in trucks and motorbikes.

Marc O'Loideoin

Marc O'Loideoin has trained motorcyclists for the last 17 years. He is Senior Local Training Officer, for Fingal (Dublin) County Council Star Rider Training Scheme. Founder member and former Head of Training for the Irish Rider Training Association (I.R.T.A.) where he was responsible for training and examining Instructors, he has acted as Advisor on motorcycle safety projects for the Irish Road Safety Authority (R.S.A.) and to the Irish Governments working party, studying the introduction of "Compulsory Basic Training" for new motorcyclists."