CLIMMAR Working Groups
There are 7 Working Groups active within CLIMMAR. Each working group is responsible for initiating and advising on one or more specific activities. In each Working Group several member / countries are involved. The supervision over the activities is done by the President or one of his Vice-Presidents. The working groups relate to
- Education
- Branch & Market Data
- Exhibition
- Gardening
- Dealers Contract
- Dealers Satisfaction Index (DSI)
- Regulation and Standards
Working group Education
Chair: Wim Overeem
Objectives
- Improving the quality of vocational education for agrotechnics in the participating countries and striving for European uniformity.
- Promoting the influx of well-educated young people into the agricultural industry in the participating countries.
- A well-functioning and active educational working group that meets twice a year.
- Working group meeting at Euroskills
- Working group meeting Paris
- Workshop part 1 (online) & part 2 (live) European internships exchange October Gdansk
Activities developed for 2024
- Workshop part 3: Internships exchange - 24 January 2024
- Event at the Dealer Days in Belgium – 14 March 2024
- Certification Workshop participants - 14 March 2024
- Working group meetings spring and autumn
Working group Branch & Market Data
Chair: Germany (Ulrich Beckschulte)
Objectives.:
- Counting data from national associations about national markets: turnover, membership-levels, relations
- Collect data of enterprises for EU benchmarking due to turnover structures, frames for employees
- Collect market trends and create EU-index
- Compare national regulation on traffic items like driver licences, weights, brakes, regular machinery checks Activities developed in former years.:
Presentation of:
- branch reports due to national figures
- branch reports due to national members averages
- warranty conditions
- trend reports (twice a year)
- special items (extra, if done)
- Keep a high participation level on existing surveys
- Develop existing surveys onto relevant market-aspects
Working group Exhibition
Chair: Hubert Seliawak (PIGMIUR)
Objectives
- Sharing best practices in organising exhibitions,
- Promotion of exhitions organised by CLIMMAR members,
- an attemp to identify the challenges and directions of development of Agricultural exhibitions in the perspective of a few years.
- A survey to group members in order to obtain basic information about organized exhibitions,
- Presentation of collected information at the next on-line meeting.
- Determining the schedule for the presentation of exhibitions by individual organisations,
- After all exhibitions have been presented, start work on the electronic exhibition catalog
- Sharing best practices of organising exhibitions,
- Visiting exhibitions organised by CLIMMAR members,
- Discussion on the future of exhibitions.
Working group Gardening
Chair: Isabella Fontana (FEDERACMA)
Objectives
The group will share at the European level what are the common themes for the different countries to work on, based on the dealers of the DSI results and will work on the first 3 themes that will emerge
The objective of the working group is to support the activities of European dealers by collaborating on topics of common interest through listening to dealer needs
Activities developed in 2023
- objective was to understand the issues to be worked on at European level. a DSI garden, already used by Germany, was shared to understand the issues important to European dealers
- first working group meeting in Brussels during the spring meeting, where the DSI garden already used by Germany was shared and sent to Italian, German and Danish dealers during the spring
- during the summer meeting sharing of issues arising from the DSI in Italy
- during winter, sending the ISD to dealers also for newly participating states
- Follow up by results of DSI of other country that have joined the working group and share the main topic to work on it
- in Italy, at the end of January meeting with main supplier in order to share the main topic raised by DSI
- sharing working themes with the European Garden Machinery Manufacturers Association to understand how to collaborate on key issues
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- follow up at the end of January 2024 online
- meeting in Belgium in March 2024 and share next steps
Participants:
| Country | Name of representative(s) |
| Italy | Isabella Fontana |
| Germany | Ulrich Beckschulte |
| Denmark | Klaus Nilssen |
| Belgium | Hans Verstreken |
| UK | Nick Darking |
Working group Dealers Contract
Chair: Klaus Nissen
Objectives
Fair dealer contracts. We need to reach a situation where the suppliers and dealers are more equal. We seek an equal business relationship – with mutual respect.
Meetings with the suppliers and manufacturers to discuss the CLIMMAR standpoint.
Activities developed in 2023
A position paper on this subject was developed in 2018. Since then covid-19 and other issues has obstructed the further process.
Activities developed in 2024
Establish a new working group and revisit the position paper.