CEMA

CEMA considers the initiative from the European Commission to deal with ethical and legal requirements on AI must be coordinated to take into account: - Initiatives already initiated, for example the revision of the Machinery Directive to take into account new technologies - Initiatives initiated at international level to ensure consistency for our manufacturers CEMA is in favour of Option 1, as it offers the…

CEMA welcomes the CRA as an overarching horizontal legislation on Cybersecurity for products with digital elements. However, in case the scope of the essential requirements is not clarified and, linked to that, a more realistic timeline for non IT products is provided, it is impossible to become compliant with the whole fleet overall, and quality of implementation will suffer.

The agricultural machinery sector welcomes the European Commissions draft act on the use of certain fertilising materials from livestock manure, known as RENURE. As the draft act notes, allowing farmers to create and use RENURE contributes to food security and the European Unions open strategic autonomy by increasing circularity in nutrient cycles thus to the benefit of farmer, environment and climate.

CEMA welcomes the Commission' efforts to adapt the Machinery Directive to the state of the art like in relation to autonomous functions or AI. In support of a future proof Machinery Product Regulation there is a request for changes which can be found attached. Each request is accompanied by the necessary argumentation.

CEMA, representing the European agricultural machinery industry, with large multinational companies but also numerous European SMEs active in the sector, welcomes the proposed postponement by (at least) two years of the battery due diligence requirements and asks for a quick adoption to ensure legal certainty for economic operators.

CEMA, representing the agricultural machinery industry welcomes the initiative of the harmonisation of technical requirements in Europe for road circulation of non-road mobile machinery. It has been a difficult exercise which is reflected in the fact that the file has been brought on and off to the European level for discussion for the past 20 years.

Introduction As a manufacturer of agricultural machinery, we are glad with the initiative to achieve a single market for mobile machinery. We feel a strong necessity for harmonisation of the road circulation legislation taking into account the complexity of existing technical and sector specific requirements.