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EIMA International 2016
Opening conference  “Agricultural Machinery: The New European Agenda”
Bologna, November 9, 2016
EIMA International, the great exposition of agricultural mechanical engineering set for next 
November 9th to 13th, is reaching the 42nd edition of the event geared not only for promotions 
and business but also a time for information and dealing with economic and agricultural 
policies. The occasion will bring together institutional and political representatives and those 
from professions and associations to take part in meetings, conventions and conferences for 
discussions on salient questions in the agricultural and industrial sectors for the development of 
synergies and programs of shared interest.
Especially planned for the EIMA 2016 edition is a policy conference under the title, 
Agricultural Machinery: The New European Agenda, to enable representatives from 
institutions and the business world to identify priorities and the expectations of the subjects 
involved as well as factors to combine to lay the groundwork for the creation of specific shared 
programs for agricultural mechanization.    
The conference format is planned for bringing the interests of the agricultural machinery 
industries and farming enterprises face to face with the criteria and methods of the work 
performed by European Union institutions and the political sphere. The arrangement of the 
layout for participants, in fact, calls for two tables facing each other to evoke “negotiations” 
between the two sides and to underscore the frank and open nature the work intended for the 
initiative and the final objective of a viable definition of an action plan for the sector.
The debate will be based on a Preliminary Document prepared by the organizers with which 
CEMA, the European Agricultural Machinery Industries Committee, the professional farmers’ 
Copa-Cogeca, and Agrievolution, the world manufacturers association, can map out 
agricultural mechanization conditions in Europe and the sector’s potential and critical issues.
The priorities which can be underscored in the document include, for example, public sector 
support for the renewal of machinery and equipment inventories, financing for research, the 
design of machinery based on new farm production arrangements defined in the EU Common 
Agriculture Policy, CAP, applying to the sector EU regulations in the areas of machinery, 
exhaust emissions, noise levels and the like and the management of industrial and trade 
relations with other economic areas of the world as regards type-approval, working standards, 
patents, etc.   
The document will be made available to relaters well ahead of the Bologna exposition for the 
evaluation of its contents and the terms of discussion for the purpose of lining up the interests 

involved and laying out what public opinion and the media will be presented with under the 
title, European Agenda for Agricultural Machinery.
The meeting, scheduled for the morning of November 9th, after the EIMA inauguration 
ceremony, is expected to also draw a crowd of members of the public and numerous media 
representatives from Italy and abroad and will be broadcast live via streaming by the EIMA 
website and dedicated YouTube channels. The plan is for opening the conference in the late 
morning for a two-hour session as follows:
Greetings and opening statements:
 –  FEDERUNACOMA, 
Debate on the Preliminary Document with participation of:
For the production front    
 –AGRIEVOLUTION, 
 – CEMA, 
 – COPA-COGECA, 
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For the political and institutional front
 – Directorate DG Grow, European Commission
 – European Parliament, Agricultural Committee
 –  European Parliament, Environment Committee
 – FAO, 
, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department
 – World Bank, Senior Agribusiness Specialist
Conclusion
M. Martina – Italian Minister of Agriculture
P. Hogan – European Union, Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner
Rome, March 21, 2016