UEM History

The idea of creating a European motorcycle organization starts from the need to face certain themes strictly connected to particular local situations. For example, the necessity to study a "European licence", after the European Union had liberalized the sport activity in its 15 affiliated countries or to find a solution to the great difficulties of the Eastern Europe countries in developing a little international sport activity in the situation of great crisis after the fall of the Berlin wall. All the problems that the FIM, world-wide organization, would have managed and controlled with difficulty in such a short time.
On the 5th September 1995 the representatives of 7 national motorcycle Federations met in Munich in order to create a European Union of the national Federations, like the Latin-American Union that has existed for many years and was recognized by the FIM. The Federations who were present in Munich are those of France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Slovakia, Portugal and Germany (ADAC). A document of agreement was signed in which it is specified that the new organization was not born in opposition to the FIM but inside it, in order to improve promotion, development and diffusion of motorcycling in the Old World and achieve a strict cooperation among the national Federations, especially with those of countries where motorcycling is not yet developed.