Club of bologna proceedings

Oleg S. MARCHENKO 
The problem of certification has recently been 
raised in Russia. I can say that, in the past, we 
practically did not buy any foreign machinery - 
maybe only samples for examination and the li-
ke. Now, the situation has much changed, and 
earlier I showed that our domestic production 
has gone down very drastically and, if we con-
sider tractors for example, we are now buying 
more tractors from other countries. But this is 
all practically without any certification, and we 
have problems with our tractor fleet. To resolve 
this we need to establish a new structure for te-
sting. We have machine testing stations, and 
now we are creating a system of certification; 
we have set up a scientific centre for testing of 
agricultural machinery, and we are trying to en-

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ter into general agreements with foreign com-
panies.
Also on the basis of our results, we have produ-
ced some recommendations for the ministries, 
the central government, and the regional gover-
nments. Also we would like to have some co-
operation with CONAMA, and we would like to 
use experience of your association. This will be 
next step. I would like - and I ask - you to help 
us in this process.
 
Karl Th. RENIUS 
I would like to make a comment on the competi-
tion question which was raised by Mr. Fischer, 
and I think this is really a strong interest of in-
dustry to have a certain pressure on the prices 
for the tests, but I think in the long term we will 
have a trend toward reduced subsidies in Euro-
pe, and then that competition will come up ou-
tside Europe. So that competition can be seen I 
think.