Club of bologna proceedings

DISCUSSION 
 
Lothar FISCHER 
I have two questions for Mr. Takahashi. The 
first one is: am I correct in understanding that 
one of your duties is to guard against unfair 
acts of competition? I believe you mentioned 
unfair competition. And my second question is: 
when we look at the development of noise level, 
fuel consumption, smoke emissions and so on, 
are the results you show only from Japanese 
tractors, or also from imported tractors? 
 
Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI 
In answer to the first question: each 
manufacturer presents the figures for his 
tractors, and these figures are then used in 
trade with manufacturers and farmers. In some 
cases, manufacturers may present a kind of 
unfair specification of the machines, so it is 
useful to make public specifications by 
independent institutes. This will contribute to 
fair competition among manufacturers.
As regards the improvement of noise or fuel 
conditions, these figures include the tractors 
imported into Japan. At this moment we don’t 
know the details of how many tractors are 
included. 
 
Giuseppe PELLIZZI 
If it is possible I should like to have a copy of 
your transparencies, Mr. Takahjashi, so that we 
can include them in our proceedings. And now a 
question: how many agricultural machines do 
you test and certify in Japan, per year?
 
Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI 
Regarding the duplication of the transparencies, 
of course we will provide you with photocopies 
for the proceedings. In answer to the second 
question, regarding the number of machines 
that we are testing: at this moment we don’t 
know the exact number, but I
 
am testing tractors, so the number of tractors 
we are testing each year is 20 or 30 tractors a 
year.