SCHWEINFURT, Germany – During a recent meeting of the Dutch standardisation committee and European stakeholders, the completion of a standard for...
Did you see the horror crash of Formula 1 racer Zhoa at Silverstone this year? He survived, miraculously, due to a mandatory safety measure that was...
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The industry takes strong stance against tampering of e-bikes. Under the aegis of CONEBI 15 national bicycle industry...
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany – The industry organisation CONEBI and ZIV will host an update event on future legislation in the European Union. A...
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The existing ISO 4210 safety standard for bicycles was supposed to be extended with a new paragraph on e-bikes. On 1 September...
BRUSSELS, Belgium – A new information platform for the safe transportation, testing and packaging of battery cells, batteries, and vehicles and...
LONDON, UK - The pandemic has prompted many people to take to two wheels. Many see public transport as the least desirable option, the number of...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - At an early February Symposium in Brussels titled: ‘Symposium on Legal Status and Market Position of Speed Pedelecs’ it appeared...
BRUSSELS, Belgium – You can see them in more and more cities around Europe. And the numbers of docked and/or free-floating electric step-scooters on...
PARIS, France - From next September onwards, a new regulation will come into force in France which applies to the use of electric step-scooters. As...
BRUSSELS, Belgium – Last 19 March the European Commission implemented “Decision (EU) 2019/436 on the harmonized standards for machinery drafted in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The launch of Trek and Bontrager helmets featuring the licensed WaveCel technology is creating lots of discussions among helmet...
BERLIN, Germany - The German draft standard for cargo bikes DIN 79010 has been published for public review. At this point, it is only available in...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The very long-awaited revision of EN 15194 has finally been published and is already implemented by the national standardization...
DELFT, the Netherlands – The European Standardization Committee for bicycles CEN/TC 333 'Cycles' considers it high time that a standard describing...
GENEVA, Switzerland – The recall of Merida’s 2017 Scultura CF2 carbon fork included a statement by the Taiwanese manufacturer that there is no...
BERLIN, Germany – The European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization has published the European standard EN 50604-1:2016. It defines a...
DELFT, the Netherlands – There’s a new battery safety standard named EN 50604. This International Standard is related to the testing of the safety...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - On 1 January 2017, the new type-approval, which includes most types of electric bicycles, enters into force. The only category...