[1] On 5 September 1995, a meeting of representatives of seven national European motorcycle sport bodies took place in Munich, Germany.

This document stated the goals of the new organisation as being: to promote, develop and help spread motorcycling and its diverse sports amongst the constituent nations of the European Union.

With a further meeting on 27 November 1995 in Bratislava, the national federations of Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic all expressed an interest in joining the proposed union.

At a meeting in Paris on 17 February 1996 the "union Européenne de Motocyclisme" was created as a controlling body of 21 national federations.

At an Extraordinary General Assembly held in November 2012, a motion was passed to rename the organisation to FIM Europe.