IN PICTURES: Brian Montgomery-EBMA, Moreno-present Coliped Fioravanti, Pietro Boselli-SafetyBicycle taken to the table presentation (courtesy of Bicycling magazine), the room filled with Bologna Novotel operators. SafetyBicycle the computer on which they appear during the three agreements made before the meeting, Peter has served to explain what Boselli and dumping, illustrate key points of the procedure for renewal of the European measure, history of previous renewals (for which Italian operators had never expressed neither in Rome nor in Brussels), the Eurostat statistical analysis of the Italian and European, is complete bicycles for the components.
years and well before the 8th February 2003 we asked why the self-proclaimed representatives of 'the Italian bike industry were so listless and inattentive in the face of developments in the international scenario. To many in Europe is truly scandalous distraction with which the largest exporter of bicycles and components in a few years he had paraded the market-leading position without a jolt of repentance. As one of the deans of the European organizations' industry for years I was in charge of monitoring the dumping Asia. An embarrassing situation to which I responded, not only bringing in Milan continuous and detailed alarm messages (to deliberately misrepresented as an awkward arruffapopoli those who can not keep his post as consultant), but also exposing first person in the 'organization of European projects aimed at the pre-trial manufacturing in Europe. (Standard Cen, Coliped Made in Europe, Liaison with UCI, etc.).
When in the fall of 2002, I was invited by some operators to promote together them to open a frank discussion on issues related to dumping (which even then I knew the theme would be deleted from the tasks entrusted to me by my client to 'environmental incompatibility') enthusiastically, as he had done for years for the initiatives taken by 'EBMA and from' friend Brian Montgomery.
only condition is that my client was informed in advance 'initiative in order to avoid the immediate charges of conspiracy and maybe check financial support to cost of preparation and organization of 'meeting.
Without going into unpleasant details of this preliminary interview between us and the organizers of my client, in essence was a refusal to express any support by expressing the singular justification that everything now would be useless to revive the fortunes of an industry 'now decoction' .
The apparent success of Bologna in 2003 is therefore inexcusable. In the sense that instead of charging the person responsible for a strategic mistake of this magnitude it was decided to make fake cards just to eliminate one of those who had complained of uncomfortably long time ...