Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations

The Federation of European Motorcyclists' Associations (FEMA) is a motorcycling advocacy group based in Brussels, Belgium. It was formed on 10 January 1998 from a merger of the Federation of European Motorcyclists (FEM) and the European Motorcyclists' Association (EMA). From its inception it has been headquartered at Rue des Champs 62, 1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 (0)2 736 9047 Fax: +32 (0)2 736 9401 http://fema.ridersrights.org in the offices previously used by its forerunner FEM. FEMA's first General Secretary was Simon Milward who had previously served since 1992 as the General Secretary of the Federation of European Motorcyclists. The main driving force behind the amalgamation of FEM and EMA into FEMA was Neil Liversidge, the National Chairman (1989-2002) of the UK's Motorcycle Action Group known as MAG (UK) Ltd. The merger created a pan-European riders' rights organisation ranging from Scandinavia in the north to Greece in the south and from Ireland in the west to the Czech republic in the east. It also brought together national organisations who continued to compete with each other for members within their own territories such as MAG (UK) and the British Motorcyclists' Federation of the UK, and BVDM, Kuhle Wampe and Biker Union of Germany. Founding member organisations of FEMA were Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK); British Motorcyclists' Federation (UK); MAG Ireland; Luxembourg Moto Initiativ (LMI) (Luxembourg); Federation des Francais Motards en Colere (FFMC) (France; DMC (Denmark); Coordinamento Motociclisti (Italy); SMC (Sweden); Federacao Nacional Motociclismo (FNM) (Portugal); MAG Belgium; Bikers Co-operation (Czech Republic); Biker Union (Germany); Kuhle Wampe (Germany); Bundesverband der Motorradfahrer (BVDM) (Germany); MAG Austria; Cyprus Motorcycle Federation; Motoe (Greece); SMOTO (Finland); MP69 (Finland); Sniglar (Iceland); MAG Holland; ABATE (Denmark).

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