ECF stands for:

• To promote and encourage cycling throughout Europe and abroad
• Cycling policy at European level
• Cycle tourism as a sustainable economic factor
• Environment-friendly mobility
• Cycling as a health factor
• Cycling as part of intermobility
• Safety for vulnerable road users
  

Origins, Members

The European Cyclists’ Federation was founded in 1983 by 12 bicycle user associations. It has now 51 member organizations in 36 countries. The members

• are active at local, regional and national level.
• promote the bicycle at European as well as international levels and create a favourable climate in transport, environmental and tourism policies.
• put forward the views of cyclists.
• link a dense European network of cyclists and user groups with politicians, industry, media, planners, railway companies and tourism industry.
• have expertise in cycling issues such as town planning, cycling facilities and tourism, and legal matters.

ECF services and activities

• Provides information, suggestions, advice to authorities, organisations, international institutions, industry, transport companies and tourism industry, whether on initiative or on request; disseminate information to members and the media.
• Has expertise in planning, cycling facilities and intermodality.
• Lobbies for the interests of cyclists in international and European institutions. ECF maintains close contact with the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, with the EU parliament, the EU Commission.
• Works on key subjects like bicycles & trains, bicycle thefts, law & cycling, technical standards, European Cycle Route Network.
  
  
  The legal announcement of the ECF in the Moniteur Belge, Belgium
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ECF Founding Documents, 1983 Copenhague, Denmark