ENTAM und SPISE – Zwei wesentliche Beiträge zur Harmonisierung der Geräteprüfung in der Europäischen Union

Abstract

ENTAM (European Network for Testing of Agricultural Machines) is a network of European bodies involved in testing agricultural machines which aims to promote the agricultural machinery performance certification by a «third part», to implement standardised tests of the performance, safety and environmental aspects of agricultural machinery and tools, to guarantee the agricultural machinery manufacturers that their machines fulfil the present standard requirements and to allow the farmer to have the necessary and certified technical information about machinery in order to make a correct choice when purchasing a new machine.

SPISE (Standardised Procedure for the Inspection of Sprayers in Europe) is an European working group that aims to harmonise and promote sprayers inspection in the European Union (EU), to exchange information on sprayers inspection activities between EU Member States, to establish a pool of experts for consultations with the European Commission (DG SANCO) and to develop common rules for which Member States are responsible (subsidiarity).

Both ENTAM and SPISE represent two essential elements for the harmonisation of testing of plant protection equipment (PPE) within the European Union and are strongly supported by the activity of the Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) (ex BBA) Application Technique Unit that has been led by Prof. Heinz Ganzelmeier until 2012.

DOI: 10.5073/JfK.2014.10.06, https://doi.org/10.5073/JfK.2014.10.06