Any indoor or outdoor meeting within Europe, which invites international athletes and offers a prize money, appearance fee, and/or the value of non-cash prizes in excess of a certain amount is required to have a permit from European Athletic. The distinction between Premium, Classic and Special Premium meetings lies essentially in the number of mandatory events, level of attendance, stadium capacity, as well as commercial conditions and the number of doping controls. Classic Meeting requirements are less stringent than Premium, whereas Special Premium Meetings have a restricted programme of events (and therefore a reduced number of participating athletes). Outdoor Permit Meetings During the European Athletics Outdoor Season 2018 a total of 21 meetings — including Premium, Special Premium and Classic – are scheduled to be held: Outdoor Premium Meetings Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern, Lucerne Palio Città della Quercia, Rovereto Outdoor Special Premium Meetings Street Pole Vault, Athens Outdoor Classic Meetings Outdoor Area Permit Meetings Current or previous Outdoor Area Permit Meetings Indoor Meetings Current or previous Indoor Classic Permit Meetings: AIT International Grand Prix, Athlone Serbian Open, Belgrade All Star Perche, Clermont-Ferrand IFAM Meeting, Ghent Istanbul Athletics Cup Meeting Pas de Calais, Liévin Gugl Indoor Meeting, Linz Orlen Cup, Lodz Czech Indoor Gala, Ostrava Paris Indoor, Paris RIG Games, Reykjavik Combined Events Meeting, Tallinn Sparet Grand Prix, Stockholm Cross Country Permit Meetings During the European Athletics Cross Country season 2017–18 a total of 13 meetings are scheduled to be held: Race Walking Permit Meetings Sponsors The European Athletic Association is the owner of all rights emanating from European athletics competitions and activities. Its current official sponsors are: SPAR Gruyère AOP Eurovision See also European Athlete of the Year European Athlete of the Month List of European records in athletics References External links Official website Athletics organizations Athletics 1969 establishments in Europe Sports organizations established in 1969