Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible

The Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Credible (short MPCC; German movement for a credible cycling ) is a working group founded by eight UCI ProTeam cycling teams of categories and UCI Professional Continental team on 25 July 2007.

History

The MPCC was founded Team Gerolsteiner and T-Mobile Team ag2r of the six French cycling team Prévoyance, Agritubel, Bouygues Telecom, Cofidis, Crédit Agricole and Française des Jeux and the German teams. Because of the foundation was that not all the cycling team at the meeting of AIGCP signed on July 5, two days before the start of the 2007 Tour de France the Code of Ethics. A representative of a Spanish team is said to have stated that they would not operate doping, but take medicine, as well as any other athlete, after which the representatives of the eight teams left the meeting. The agenda for the exclusion of Relax - GAM Fuenlabrada, Saunier Duval- Prodir, Caisse d' Epargne, Lampre- Fondital and the Discovery Channel had been out of the organization, as the teams of employing more complicated in the doping scandal Fuentes driver violated the ethics code had.

On 10 June 2008, the Team Volksbank was confirmed after a three-month probationary period as an official member of MPCC and was joined by the founding members.

In 2011, AG2R -La Mondiale, Cofidis, Team Europcar, Francaise des Jeux, Garmin - Cervélo, Skil- Shimano and Bretagne- Schuller members of the MPCC. The team mentioned first five took part in the 2011 Tour de France. According to the president of the MPCC Roger Legeay - up to 2008 head of the now-defunct team MPCC co-founder Crédit Agricole - these drivers are checked in addition to the doping controls by the UCI by an internal test system. Indicative of doping abnormalities would thereby result in any of the drivers. The Green Edge Cycling Team joined the MPCC in 2012, the year of the founding team at.

Objectives

The MPCC is committed to strict adherence to the Code of Ethics of the UCI ( " Code de Conduite " ) a. Said this Code of Ethics, already exclude drivers from race when a doping suspicion. All team members must sign the UCI statement. In addition, counts for any of the drivers of these teams, the " Authorization de médicaments à des fins thérapeutiques " ( "Authorization for the therapeutic application of these drugs " ) for corticosteroid injections. This control of the UCI allows drivers to use means the Prohibited List if they have for a medical certificate. Accordingly, the teams none of their athletes allow special arrangements. A violation of a driver to be charged with a two-week ban.

In the wake of the doping scandal involving Lance Armstrong of the MPCC decided end of 2012, further measures which the teams concerned accept: The teams must not allow a driver with a positive drug test to start a race. Drivers, a more than 6-month doping suspension, except such for reporting violations, may not be required. After a corticoid injection, a driver is allowed to participate for eight days at any race. From the first positive doping control in a team to review the internal processes of the team is to be made. The team needs to suspend itself after several positive doping cases within twelve months.

In the wake of the Armstrong affair of the Association of the racing organizers decided AIOCC the end of 2012 the members of the MPCC in awarding wildcards to give priority for his race.

Members

As of end of 2012:

  • AG2R
  • Giant - Shimano
  • BigMat - Auber 93
  • Bardiani Valvole -CSF Inox
  • Brittany Séché Environnement
  • Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
  • Europcar
  • FDJ.fr
  • Garmin Sharp
  • IAM Cycling
  • La Pomme Marseille
  • Lotto Belisol
  • NetApp Endura
  • Sojasun
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