The AIGCP (Association of Men's Professional Road Cycling Teams) has expressed its opposition to the "Classic Series" that the UCI plans to implement next season as part of a major overhaul.

In a strongly worded statement sent to the media on Thursday, the organization said that it would be located within the current World Tour calendar and would include five monuments (Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Milan-San Remo, Il Lombardia) He stated that he rejects the main elements of the Classic Series, a new category of one-day races that includes.

"The AIGCP's support for the 2020 reforms approved in September 2018 is based on its agreement with all stakeholders, including riders and teams, that the envisaged one-day race competition ("Classic Series") be based on a comprehensive business plan and ownership that recognizes and respects the rights of all parties It was contingent upon the establishment of a model based on.

"Such a Classic Series would be a stepping stone toward the real reform that men's professional road cycling needs.

"However, teams lament the lack of substantial progress in this regard. Indeed, the rights of teams and riders are neither recognized nor respected, and the current approach and the proposed regulatory framework do not deliver the promised structure that will finally enable stakeholders to achieve the economic changes that the sport so desperately needs," the statement said.

Therefore, the AIGCP has formally informed the UCI that it refuses to accept the Classic Series being conducted by the UCI and that no team or contracted rider may be involved in such a Classic Series without the express consent of that team.

The UCI announced plans for a Classic Series in 2018, which will be a series within the World Tour calendar that will include five Monuments and approximately 20 other one-day races.

The UCI's 2020 men's WorldTour calendar lists 21 one-day events, with the same events in 2019 beginning with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race on February 2 and ending with Il Lombardia on October 12, 2020.

The rules of the Classic Series require that the top three Pro Continental teams (now called UCI Pro Teams, with rankings determined at the end of the previous season) be invited.

The organizers of the UCI Classic Series must invite all WorldTour teams, just as the WorldTour may have 20 teams in 2022, leaving organizers with only one or two places for new pro teams would be left with only one or two places for new professional teams.