Formula One's governing body has proposed raising the teams' 2009 entry fee to 740,000 euros ($1.15 million) each from the current 300,000 to pay for services and equipment.

The proposal, revealed in an advance dossier seen by Reuters, will be put to the International Automobile Federation (FIA) world motor sport council at a meeting in Paris on Wednesday.

If approved, the governing body will then discuss the measures with the 10 teams.

The move comes after drivers expressed anger last week about the dramatic hike in the cost of their competition licences, with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton having to pay 228,000 euros instead of 1,725 in 2007.

However the additional cost to the teams comes in the context of continuing negotiations with commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone and CVC Capital Partners for a new Concorde Agreement controlling the sport and setting out the future division of revenues.

Media reports last week suggested that FIA President Max Mosley, who will be present at Wednesday's meeting with Ecclestone, will push for the teams to receive a far greater share of the money.

Ecclestone and Mosley, who won a vote of confidence from the FIA general assembly in Paris this month after being caught in a sado-masochistic sex scandal, are at loggerheads over the terms of a new agreement.

The FIA document proposed that the teams' entry fee, which had otherwise been set to rise by three percent, should be adjusted to cover the costs of six services.

They were a marshalling and positioning system, light panels supplementing flag signals, a surveillance data recorder, a secure pit lane and garage communications network, weather forecasting and a pit wall intercom system.

The total cost per team for the services amounted to 428,700 euros -- making up a total of 740,000 each when added to the 2008 entry fee plus indexation.

Ecclestone is also due to present the draft 2009 calendar at the meeting.

Abu Dhabi is scheduled to make its debut on what could be a 20-race provisional schedule if the U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis makes a return and none of the current 18 venues are dropped.

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