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The next reform proposal for the scandal-ridden football world governing body Fifa is on the table. Domenico Scala, CEO of “Audit & amp; Compliance Commission”, presented its eight priorities comprehensive paper. He wants to his own words to advance the public debate and make the Fifa future.
In parallel with Scala since last week working a so-called Reform Committee, chaired by the former Director General François Carrard IOC and manned by the usual suspects from the Fifa Business. Also present: the Olympic Strippenzieher Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah of Kuwait. “My report is not a paper of Fifa and also no proposal of the reform committee,” said Scala. “I put the catalog totally independent before. I do not make policy.”
In essence, Scalas squeezed on 26 sides recommendations a mix of the main proposals of former reform commissions of Swiss criminal lawyer Mark Pieth and the former DFB president Theo Zwanziger and the comprehensive approach of the former FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne. Scala has presented a catalog already on 20 July in Zurich the Executive Committee and also discussed about on 2 September in Bern with the Reform Committee of Carrard and Sheikh Al-Sabah.
temporal proximity purely coincidental
Why does he now short and surprisingly went a little to the public, a few days before the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Swiss Attorney Michael Lauber want to express in Zurich at the criminal investigation against FIFA? Where the notice is perhaps a propaganda purpose? The temporal proximity to the highly anticipated concerts of Lynch and Lauber was randomly explains Scala.
He had seen in the obligation to publish its proposals, says Scala. Reason is that “we hear but currently some people are talking about relatively insubstantial reforms”. The latter was undoubtedly meant for Carrard. Carrard was chosen as once Scala from FIFA President Joseph Blatter.
Blatter still pulling the strings in the soccer group headquarters on the Zurich mountain, although he has announced his resignation at an extraordinary election congress on June 2nd. The congress will take place on 26 February.
For Blatter’s successor, there are now half a dozen interested parties, most recently the Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al-Husain again climbed into the ring, the end of May at the Ordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on the first ballot with 73: had lost 113 votes to Blatter. But whether Prince Ali or his adversary Michel Platini, the UEFA president, and South Korean Hyundai-billionaire Chung Mong-joon, they all speak only superficial reforms and hardly go into detail – instead, they fight each other.
These are the eight major areas that urgently for Scala statutes changes required:
- integrity checks for elected officials are central and not in the six confederations be performed. Scala intends to expand these Integrity Check and tighten, and also include the 209 national associations.
- maximum for three terms and a total of twelve years, the most important positions in the Fifa (President, Executive Committee, Secretary-General, Commission lines), the confederations and national associations may be filled.
- The FIFA Congress is to select all the executive members. So far, the members last example DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach in the Uefa or Sheikh Ahmad were determined in the confederations, in Asia continental federation AFC.
- The financial compensation from the FIFA President, the Executive members, the Secretary-General and of all committees shall be disclosed without exception. In addition, persons should provide information with electoral functions in relation to the Ethics Commission “all football-related income and allowances” – the latter need not necessarily be publicly says Scala
- The number and the staffing of more. than two dozen FIFA committees should be reduced. Scala will entrust the management of these working groups of experts from outside in order to prevent conflicts of interest.
- In national associations and confederations to FIFA apply analogously higher ethical standards and the same governance rules.
- The allocation procedure for future World Championships has been revised. In future, the FIFA Congress will decide by open ballot, not the Executive Committee. Scala has this point for the sake of completeness included in his paper.
Scala will separate into the FIFA administration organizationally strictly between daily operations and supervisory functions, the Executive Committee on 40 members expand (also on representatives of clubs and the players’ unions).
All items will be discussed for years and failed last resistance from the confederations and two FIFA Congresses. The Uefa with Platini and DFB boss Niersbach has torpedoed this kind of governance necessary adjustments, for example in the Winter 2013.
Scala differentiates between simple and complex changes in the statutes. Among the simple he considers the term limit for critical because it dependencies that previously could mint over many decades, could be curbed – this kind relationships count in the fight against corruption for basic knowledge.
Among the more complex demands was point eight most importantly, says Scala: The Fifa-core business should continue to be dominated by professionals and not by sport policy interests
Scala garnished his remarks with some bizarre. utterances. The FIFA administration worked very well, he said, describing the history of Fifa since 1998 when Blatter became president, as a “continuous process of reform”.
In contrast, Fifa is referred to in documents of the US Department of Justice as Rico, as dominated by gangsters corrupt organization (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization). For Scala that’s more of a legal and technical aspect, since the classification as Rico allows the authorities to investigate football functionaries and managers under a 1970 law specifically adopted.
In a discussion about what would happen if the FIFA Executive Committee and the Congress should prevent this kind of re-urgent amendments to does not want to get involved Scala. “I think in the Fifa has grasped the seriousness of the situation.”
summary : published with the reform paper by Domenico Scala the Fifa most famous basics in the fight against corruption . Your reaction is also debatable. Too often similar efforts have been prevented in the past.
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