UCI CYCLING REGULATIONS  new-professional riders as per the joint agreement). The payment will be made  by the UCI ProTeam to the team with which the rider is registered for the  season; payment to the rider is then made by the latter team, after deducting  sums which they contractually owe the rider $^{(2)}$.  (1)  Upon justification of the participation in a stage race starting in July and ending in  August, the registration of these riders may occur in July no earlier than the day before  the first race day of the aforesaid race.  ($_{2}$$^{)}$  The teams concerned may agree that payment to the rider shall be made directly by  the UCI ProTeam in the event the transfer of funds can for legal grounds not be made  through the team with which the rider is registered for the season. If for justified legal  grounds, the funds may neither be paid via the team with which the rider is registered,  nor directly by the UCI ProTeam, both teams and the rider shall enter into a specific  agreement providing for an alternative mechanism of remuneration which, in any case,  ensures receipt of equivalent benefits by the rider.  In all other respects, the relationship between these riders and the UCI ProTeam may  be determined by mutual agreement between the parties.  (text modified on 1.01.02; 1.01.03; 1.01.04; 1.01.05; 1.01.06; 1.01.09; 1.01.15; 1.01.18;  1.07.19).  2.16.034 A rider whose UCI ProTeam is entered in a race, may not participate independently of  his team on pain of being disqualified and fined from CHF 300 to 2,000.  2.16.035 A rider shall not enter into any commitment with an organiser, whomsoever that organiser  may be, with a view to participating in a race, without having firstly obtained the  agreement of his paying agent or of the paying agent’s delegate. That agreement shall  be considered to have been granted if, on being duly requested, the paying agent has  not replied within ten days.  2.16.036 The rights and obligations of the rider and the paying agent shall be summarised in a  written employment contract that shall contain at least the minimum stipulations of the  standard contract given in article 2.16.052.  Any rider in breach of this regulation shall be disqualified and fined from CHF 300 to  2,000.  The rights and obligations of the parties shall also be governed by the joint agreement  concluded between CPA (Cyclistes Professionnels Associés) and AIGCP (Association  Internationale des Groupes Cyclistes Professionnels) and approved by the Professional  Cycling Council.  The provisions of the standard contract and the joint agreement shall be applied as of  right. Any clause agreed between the rider and the paying agent that impinges on the  rights of riders as provided for in the standard contract or the joint agreement shall be  null and void.  (text modified on 1.07.10).  E170421  ROAD RACES  258 