Members of Bert van Marwijk's European Championship squad were subjected to monkey chants during an open training session on Wednesday, with captain Mark van Bommel yesterday branding the incident "a real disgrace".

Having initially been satisfied by the Dutch FA's belief that the abuse was not racially motivated, Uefa announced this morning they had been made aware of "isolated incidents of racist chanting".

 European football's governing body said in a statement: "Uefa has now been made aware that there were some isolated incidents of racist chanting that occurred at the open training session of the Dutch team.

 "Uefa has not yet received any formal complaint from the KNVB."

 Uefa vowed to act should there be a repeat.

Their statement continued: "Should such behaviour happen at further training sessions, Uefa would evaluate the operational measures to be taken to protect the players.

 "Uefa has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to discriminatory behaviour and has given the power to referees to stop matches in case of any repeated racist behaviour."

 It is understood Uefa's stance changed following lobbying from the FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe) network.

 The chief executive of European football's leading campaign group against racism, Piara Powar, said: "Van Bommel has no reason to invent such a claim. It's quite clear it happened.

 "And if there's some confusion within the governing bodies, the KNVB or Uefa, then that's regrettable. In our view, the incident took place."

 He added: "If the captain says, 'My team-mates were racially abused, I heard it, I was there at the ground level', then one expects any FA to back the captain.

 "We're very clear with Uefa that any incident of this kind needs to be looked at."