{"id":54101,"date":"2013-09-11T19:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=54101"},"modified":"2013-09-11T19:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:48:05","slug":"erc-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/erc-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"ERC Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All parties reaffirm commitment to ERC negotiations<\/p>\n<p>Despite recent reports, all parties involved in the formulation of a new ERC Accord, including the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) and Premiership Rugby, have reaffirmed their commitment to the process. A meeting focused solely on the negotiations will be convened by ERC as soon as practicable.<\/p>\n<p>It was agreed at a scheduled ERC Board meeting in Dublin today (Wednesday, 11 September 2013) that ERC would facilitate the discussions and that the current points of difference, including the share of central revenues, qualification and season dates, would all be on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The Board reiterated that European club competitions must be organised by ERC and that any purported cross-border club tournaments needed the approval both of the IRB, and of the relevant Unions who are shareholders of ERC.<\/p>\n<p>Surprise was expressed at the timing and content of yesterday&#8217;s media announcements by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) and Premiership Rugby, and representatives of both bodies were invited to explain their positions.<\/p>\n<p>It was pointed out that there was a range of proposals made by stakeholders, none of which were acceptable to all parties, and it was agreed that the negotiations towards a definitive solution needed to begin again in earnest.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees at today&#8217;s ERC Board meeting<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre Lux (ERC Chairman)<br \/>\nRen\u00e9 Bouscatel (Ligue Nationale de Rugby)<br \/>\nOlivier Keraudren (Federation Fran\u00e7aise de Rugby)<br \/>\nPhilip Browne (Irish Rugby Football Union)<br \/>\nPeter Boyle (Irish Rugby Football Union)<br \/>\nPeter Wheeler (Premiership Rugby)<br \/>\nRoy Headey (Rugby Football Union)<br \/>\nIan McLauchlan (Scottish Rugby)<br \/>\nDominic McKay (Scottish Rugby)<br \/>\nRoger Lewis (Welsh Rugby Union)<br \/>\nStuart Gallacher (Regional Rugby Wales)<br \/>\nFabrizio Gaetaniello (Federazione Italiana Rugby) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/INTOUCHRUGBY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/erc.png\" alt=\"ERC Statement\" width=\"630\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37039\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All parties reaffirm commitment to ERC negotiations Despite recent reports, all parties involved in the formulation of a new ERC Accord, including the Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) and Premiership Rugby, have reaffirmed their commitment to the process. A meeting focused solely on the negotiations will be convened by ERC as soon as practicable. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12850],"tags":[2209,8658],"class_list":["post-54101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erc-rugby","tag-erc","tag-statement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54102,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54101\/revisions\/54102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}