SPECIFIC REGULATIONS

ARTICLE 1. Organisation penalties into consideration, in accordance applied in order until the riders are separated: The ARCTIC RACE OF is organised with article 2.6.014. of the UCI regulations. • the number of 1st places in the 1st category by AS (ARN) The leader of the general individual time climbs; under the regulations of the International classification shall wear the midnight sun • the number of 1st places in the 2nd Cycling Federation (UCI) and the Norges jersey (yellow1st 2 andnd orange).3rd 4th General category climbs; Place Cykleforbund (Norwegian Cycling Federation stage stage stage stage classification • the general individual time classification. - NCF). It will take place from Thursday 5th 1st €3,615 €3,615 €3,615 €3,615 €7,230 Prize money awarded for the best climber th until Sunday 8 August 2021 in 4 stages 2nd €1,805 €1,805 €1,805 €1,805 €3,610 classification is as follows: • for the final general classification: 1st: €3,000 3rd €905 €905 €905 €905 €1,810 ARTICLE 2. Type of event Total amount of prize money for the best 4th €455 €455 €455 €455 €910 The event, reserved for riders in the Elite climber classification €3,000 th Men’s Category, is featured on the Europe 5 €365 €365 €365 €365 €730 To be entitled to final general classification Tour calendar in UCI ProSeries (2.Pro) 6th €270 €270 €270 €270 €540 prize money, competitors have to complete and awards UCI world ranking points (in 7th €270 €270 €270 €270 €540 the entire race within the official time limit. accordance with article 2.10.008 of the UCI 8th €180 €180 €180 €180 €360 ARTICLE 12. Young rider classification regulations). 9th €180 €180 €180 €180 €360 Only riders born on or after 1st January 10th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 ARTICLE 3. Participation 1996 may take part in the young rider th In accordance with article 2.1.005 of the 11 €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 classification. UCI regulations, the event is open by 12th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 The leader of the young rider classification invitation to teams from UCI WorldTeams, 13th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 is the first young rider in the general UCI Professional Continental Teams, UCI 14th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 individual classification. He shall wear a Continental Teams and National Team of the 15th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 white jersey. country. Prize money awarded for the young rider 16th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 In accordance with article 2.2.003 of the classification is as follows: th UCI regulations, the number of cyclists per 17 €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 • for the final general classification: 1st: €3,000 team at the start will be 6 maximum and 4 18th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 • Total amount of prize money for the young minimum. 19th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 rider classification €3,000 The mere fact of entering and/or participating 20th €95 €95 €95 €95 €190 in the event implies that each team fully 9,090 €9,090 €9,090 €9,090 €18,180 ARTICLE 13. Wearing of the leader accepts all the provisions laid out in these jerseys specific regulations and undertakes to The wearing of leader jerseys is mandatory respect them. Total amount of prize money for the overall from the signature to the official arrival individual classification on time €54,540 ceremony. ARTICLE 4. Race headquarters The race headquarters will be open on ARTICLE 10. Points classification ARTICLE 14. Most active rider prize Wednesday 4th August from 2.30 pm to 6.00 A points classification is established by The most active rider prize is awarded to the pm at: adding together the points obtained in each rider who has made the greatest effort and Radisson Blu hotel of the 4 stages as well as the intermediate who has demonstrated the best qualities in Sjøgata 7, 9259 Tromsø sprints in accordance with article 2.6.017.of terms of sportsmanship. The prize is awarded Licence-holding team managers will be able the UCI regulations. for each of the 4 stages by a jury presided to collect race numbers from 2.30 pm to Points for the 3 intermediate sprints in each over by the director of the organisation. 4.45 pm. stage will be awarded as follows: The most active rider winner of a stage The team managers’ meeting, in the presence 3 – 2 – 1 point (s). wears red bib in the following stage. of members of the Stewards’ Committee, will The following points are awarded for each Prize money awarded for each daily be held at 5 pm. stage: 15 – 12 – 9 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 and 1 classification is as follows: point (s) to the first 10 riders. • €750 for each stage ARTICLE 5. Radio-Tour The leader of the points classification shall i.e. €750 X 4 stages = €3,000 Information about the race will be broadcast wear the green jersey. • Total amount of prize money for the most using the frequency 173,1250 MHz In the event of a tie in the general points active rider prize €3,000 classification, the following criteria shall be ARTICLE 6. Neutral technical support applied in order until the riders are separated: ARTICLE 15. Team classification Neutral technical support is provided by 1°) the number of stage wins; In accordance with article 2.6.016 of the UCI Shimano, with 3 vehicles. 2°) the number of wins in the intermediate regulations, the daily team classification is sprints; established by adding together the three ARTICLE 7. Finishing deadlines 3°) the general time classification. best individual times from each team. In the Depending on the characteristics of the Prize money awarded for the points event of a tie, the teams shall be separated stages, finishing deadlines will be established classification is as follows: by adding together the number of places as being the winner’s time plus 12%. • for the final general classification: 1st: €3,000 obtained by their three best placed riders in In accordance with article 2.6.032 of the UCI • Total amount of prize money for the the stage. If the teams are still tied, they shall regulations, the Stewards’ Committee may points classification €3,000 be separated by the place obtained by their extend finishing deadlines after consultation To be entitled to final general classification best rider in the stage classification. with the organiser. prize money, competitors have to complete The team general classification is established In accordance with article 2.6.027 of the UCI the entire race within the official time limit by adding together the three best individual regulations, the finish of stages 3 and 4 are times from each team in the four stages uphill finish. The rule of the last 3 kilometers ARTICLE 11. Best climber classification In the event of a tie, the following criteria does not apply. The best climber classification concerns shall be applied in order until the riders are each of the 17 climbs selected for this separated: ARTICLE 8. Bonuses classification. 1°) the number of first places in the daily team Time bonuses, applied only to the general Points are awarded as follows: classification; individual classification, are awarded for the • 1st category: 5 – 3 – 1 points 2°) the number of second places in the daily stages and the intermediate sprints according to the first three; team classification, etc. to article 2.6.019 of the UCI regulations: • 2nd category: 3 – 2 – 1 points If the teams are still tied, they shall be 1°) for each of the intermediate sprints: to the first three; separated by the place obtained by their best 3’’ – 2’’ – 1’’ A general classification is established by rider in the Individual general classification. 2°) at the finish of the 4 stages: adding together the points awarded on all Any team reduced to fewer than three 10’’ – 6’’ – 4’’ the climbs counting for the best climber riders is eliminated from the general team SPECIFIC REGULATIONS classification. classification. ARTICLE 9. General individual time The leader of the best climber classification Prize money awarded for the team classification shall wear the salmon jersey. classification is as follows: The general individual time classification is In accordance with article 2.6.017 of the UCI • for the final general classification: 1st: €3,000 42 established by adding together the times regulations, in the event of a tie in the general • Total amount of prize money for the team recorded for each stage, taking bonuses and classification, the following criteria shall be classification €3,000 • a serious breach of Norwegian law; voice, image, biographies or the riders’ ARTICLE 16. Prize money • acts of vandalism committed in the race or sporting performance, nor the brands of their SPECIFIC REGULATIONS The total amount of prize money for the ARCTIC outside the race; sponsors or equipment suppliers, and the RACE OF NORWAY is as follows: • indecent attire or inappropriate behaviour; product, service, brand or commercial name • the general individual time classification €54,540 • any other act or deed which is liable to of the said beneficiary without obtaining • the points classification €3,000 damage the image and/or the reputation of prior express authorisation of the rider, • the best climber classification €3,000 ARN and/or of the event. sponsor or equipment supplier concerned. • the best young rider classification €3,000 • failure to observe the health measures taken • the most aggressive rider prize €3,000 to combat the spread of the SARSCoV-2 virus In addition, the race organisation will • the team classification €3,000 (COVID-19). not use and will not authorise the use of TOTAL AMOUNT OF PRIZE MONEY €69,540 an individual image of a rider within the 21.3. The right of disqualification or exclusion context of commercialisation or of so-called ARTICLE 17. Fight against doping - referred to in sections 23.1 and 23.2 above merchandising products, with the specific Anti-doping tests shall be exercised under the following exception of books, photographic albums, ARN and each of the participating conditions: comics and cartoons in whatever published teams declare it an absolute obligation form, videocassettes, CD-ROMs, DVDs or to scrupulously respect the regulations a) the ARN shall advise the team of its more generally all videograms, in whatever and procedures decreed by the relevant decision in writing, by registered letter with medium or format of which the subject is authorities governing the fight against acknowledgement of receipt or by letter wholly or partly related to the Arctic Race doping, as well as the obligation to maintain delivered personally with receipt, either by of Norway, posters, billboards, road books, a strictly irreproachable line of conduct in fax or by e-mail. autograph books, maps, postcards and this domain. Participating teams hereby This letter shall: official programmes relating to the Arctic commit to applying the aforementioned - state whether the disqualification or Race of Norway. In its role as the organiser regulations and procedures and shall be exclusion is related to the presence of of the sporting event, ARN is the sole and entirely responsible for the strict adherence the entire team or the presence of certain exclusive owner of all rights for the Arctic to these regulations by their riders and member(s) specified by name; Race of Norway. more generally, by all their staff and service - specify that, if the disqualification or As such, ARN retains full and exclusive providers. exclusion is linked to the presence of certain ownership of all images and sound recorded Anti-doping tests are carried out under the member(s) specified by name, the team within the confines authority of the International Cycling Union must, in its capacity as employer, withdraw of the sporting event, notably within all areas and designated officials at the finish of each the member(s) from its personnel for the under the control of the race organisation: stage in the organisation’s trailer. race or, alternatively, waive any right to the start village, finish zone, podium protocol participation of the entire team in the race; area, interview areas, team parking area, etc, ARTICLE 18. Protocol ceremony - state the grounds on which it is based; and which are known as The Protected Zones. After each stage, the following riders must - mention that, to challenge this decision, Consequently, any person subject to this present themselves at the protocol ceremony: the team shall have a period of twenty- regulation under article 1 is prohibited, unless •the stage winner; four (24) hours from receipt of the letter of they have the prior and written consent of • the leader of the general individual disqualification or exclusion to file an action ARN, from recording and/or distributing (in classification; with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) any medium whatsoever) any images and/or •the leader of the points classification; in Lausanne, failing which the team shall be sound from the race and/or any Protected •the leader of the best climber classification; deemed to have accepted the disqualification Zone. In the same way, any recording of •the leader of the best young rider classification; or exclusion for good. images and/or sound from the race and/or •the stage’s most aggressive rider. the protected Zones made with the intention The following riders must present b) If the team has filed an action with it, of a live or subsequent broadcast via a themselves at the final protocol ceremony: • the stage winner; the CAS will immediately appoint a single mobile application (e.g. Periscope, Facebook, • the winner of the general individual arbitrator under the expedited procedure etc.) is strictly prohibited without the prior classification; under the Rules of Procedure of the CAS. and written consent of ARN •the winner of the points classification; After calling each party to evaluate its case, •the winner of the best climber classification; the arbitrator shall decide within the time Article 23 – Sports betting •the winner of the best young rider classification; limits required by urgency of the situation, In order to avoid any risk of a conflict of •the stage’s most aggressive rider; whether to disqualify or exclude the entire interest, the teams and all their members •the 3 best riders of the general individual team or certain member(s). (riders, management, trainers, doctors, classification; The language of arbitration shall be French. etc.) shall refrain from taking part in sports •the 6 riders and the team manager of the The arbitrator shall decide the dispute in betting ventures concerning the Arctic Race winning team in the general team classification. accordance with the laws of . of Norway, either directly or through an The arbitrator’s ruling may not be appealed. intermediary. ARTICLE 19. Penalties Penalties are in accordance with the UCI ARTICLE 22. IMAGE RIGHTS Article 24. regulations. Each team and, therefore, each rider The present regulations are written in French representing it, acknowledges that its and shall prevail in the event of difficulty in ARTICLE 20. Environment participation in the race authorises the interpreting its terms in another language. ARN sets up collection areas which are race organisation and their rights-holders specifically designated to recover waste. or representatives to capture and record, Riders must only dispose of their waste, on any medium and by any means, and as water bottles or any other object in these a consequence to reproduce and to show, specially equipped areas. without any compensation whatsoever, their Riders and followers must behave responsibly names, voices, images, biographies and, in with regards to the environment in all general, their sporting performance within circumstances and respect the legal the framework of the Arctic Race of Norway provisions in force. as well as the brand(s) of their equipment suppliers and sponsors, in any form, or any ARTICLE 21. Objection - Exclusion existing or future medium, in any format, for 21.1. ARN considers the preservation of its the purposes of communication to the public image, its reputation and that of its event of throughout the world, for any use including the utmost consequence. advertising and/or commercial purposes ARN expressly reserves the right to refuse without any limitation other than those participation in - or to exclude from - the listed hereafter, and for the entire period event, any team or members of a team, for which these uses are protected by legal whose presence shall seriously blemish the and regulatory provisions, by legal decisions image and/or reputation of ARN and/or the and/or rulings of any country, as well as event. current or future international agreements,

21.2. Furthermore, ARN may exclude from the including any extensions that may be made SPECIFIC REGULATIONS event any team or any of its members in the to this period of protection. However, when following cases: the race organisation authorises a beneficiary • a breach of the event’s rules, including to use images from the race for purposes those concerning the event’s internal rules of advertising and promotion, it will not (e.g. the rules concerning accommodation); authorise these beneficiary to use the name, 43