Euro-UEFA to decide on 2012 preparations in September

VIENNA, June 27 (Reuters) - European soccer's ruling body UEFA will make a final decision on Ukraine and Poland's staging of Euro 2012 in September, UEFA vice president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder told Reuters on Friday.

Ukraine and Poland's preparations for 2012 have been overshadowed by major infrastructure problems including the urgently-needed modernisation of airports and road and rail networks and the construction of new hotels.

"There was a lively discussion about several issues, but no final decisions were taken," Mayer-Vorfelder said following UEFA's executive committee meeting in Vienna.

"A final vote will take place in Bordeaux," Mayer-Vorfelder said in reference to UEFA's next executive meeting in September.

"Today we just spoke about some of the problems that have to be cleared up, but a steering committee will now look again at the preparations and put forward its definitive findings for the executive committee."

UEFA is due to send a delegation to Warsaw and Kiev on July 2-3, headed up by the governing body's president Michel Platini.

Platini is due to hold a Euro 2008 news conference on Saturday and did not talk to reporters as he left the executive committee meeting.

Platini told Ukraine organisers in January that the months to come would be decisive in determining whether the two ex-communist states were in a position to host the finals.

UEFA officials have so far denied suggestions that they have already drawn up contingency plans to move Euro 2012 to another country.

(Editing by Trevor Huggins)