The representatives of six national cycling federations (Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy and Luxembourg) have met on Thursday, November 30 in Paris and officially declared their opposition to the UCI ProTour "in its current form." Insisting on the creation of a round table assembling all parties involved in the sport (UCI, AIOCC, CPA, AIGCP), the federations aim to "find solutions which suit all, and not only a small core of persons at the UCI. If [the UCI] continues to oppose this, then the federations will organise the meeting without the UCI," according to a press statement.
The federations' representatives also made known that they will support the association of race organisers (AIOCC) in its proceeding before the European Commission regarding the legitimacy of the ProTour, and "deplored the UCI's treatment of the Continental circuit, attempting to privilege only the UCI ProTour." Rudolf Massak (Austria), Laurent De Backer (Belgium), José Grinan Lopez (Spain), Jean Pitallier (France), Renato Di Rocco (Italy) and Jean Regenwetter (Luxembourg) instead "esteem that the European Continental circuit should be managed by the UEC (European Union of Cycling)."
