High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The national federations of the UCI form confederations by continent. In Oceania, this body is the Oceanian Cycling Confederation, also shortened to OCC. A confederation is an association of sovereign member states, that by treaty have delegated certain of their competences to common institutions, in order to coordinate their policies in a number of areas, without constituting a new state on top of the member states. Under international law a confederation respects the sovereignty of its members and its constituting treaty can only be changed by unanimous agreement.