Club of bologna proceedings

Hermann AUERNHAMMER
My first question follows up on the question 
from Japan: at this time ENTAM is only a body 
of the European countries. Will all European 
member states come to ENTAM? That’s one 
question, and the other one is: what about the 
possibility of another test procedure, by which a 
fully commercial non-agricultural organisation 
would conduct the tests for agricultural machi-
nery? 
 
Hans-Hasso BERTRAM 
Of course, as I said it’s a voluntary certifica-
tion. So it’s also voluntary to come inside 
ENTAM. I hope that in the future all European 
and non-European countries and testing sta-
tions will come into the agreement, but it’s not 
compulsory. This is very clear. But on the se-
cond question - I didn’t understand well, maybe 
you can repeat please. 
 
Hermann AUERNHAMMER 
At this time, the main money is coming from the 
governments. We have discussed the costs of 
tests for a long time now. We know from other 
sectors, other areas, that tests can also be con-
ducted by fully commercial private organisa-
tions, which are specialised in testing. Could 
this not also be a way for testing agricultural 
machinery by non-agricultural organisations? I 
think it’s a question for the future. 
 
Hans-Hasso BERTRAM 
In CONAMA for example, the manufacturer 
pays the full cost of the test. So it is also an e-
xample of a business-oriented testing activity. 
And I think that of course there will also be pri-
vate bodies doing testing activities. But maybe 
for agricultural machines it’s a very special sec-
tor, and we need very highly skilled testing sta-
tions. So perhaps a testing station that today 
may test a car or another product, and tomor-
row an agricultural machine, cannot give the 
service that a testing station specialised on a-
gricultural machines can give.