Irish Driving Instructors Association

EFA held it's 6 monthly meeting in Budapest, Hungary on 8th & 9th Octyober 2009

IDIA Chairperson Cathy Bacon (2nd Vice President of EFA) represented the IDIA and Ireland

Matters discussed included

• Report on the EFA Benchmark

• Directive of Services

• Automatic Regulation

• Directive of Professional Drivers

• Developments in Member Countries

EU Projects

• Hermes

• Module Close To

• Eric

• Leonardo da Vinci

The EFA Principals involved in these projects gave an update on progress from the EFA viewpoint.

The information on "Module Close To" and "Eric" was given By IDIA Chairperson, Cathy Bacon

In recent years the activities of EFA and the involvement of it’s members and particularly the board has increased many times.

Current EFA Activities include

• Partner for all EU-Organisations

• Takes part in the preparing of directives

• Clarification of information for Directives

• Central Office for all questions of the Driving Schools in Europe

• Internet-Research

• Translation of important mails and inquiries

• Preparation and organization of Meetings and Congresses

• Established the Benchmark for the Driving Schools

• Has knowledge about the Driving School market

• Is looking for new fields for the Driving Schools

Participates in many projects

• Trainer

• Agile

• ECO-Driving

• ECO-WILL

• MERIT

• HERMES

• Module Close to

• ERIC

• Leonardo da Vinci

Represents Driving School interests in European Congresses and Meetings

• CIECA

• Fit to Drive

• DAS –FAS

• OECD-Kongress WHO