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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Comprehensive reforms FIFA limited presidential term of office – Hamburger Morgenpost

Zurich –

So it goes yet: the crisis-ridden FIFA wants to establish a fundamentally new

. should How do that?

With a limited term of office for its future president to a maximum of twelve years.

New term also applies to high-level decision makers

The limit of three times four years which also applies to all other high-ranking decision-makers, and the establishment of FIFA “council” with 36 members, the Executive Committee decided on Thursday in Zurich as part of a comprehensive reform package. “We have taken a big step,” said FIFA interim president Issa Hayatou. “The proposals show the way to a change that is as radical as necessary.”

Now only the Congress on February 26 must agree.

ExCo is the “Council”

So should the Executive Committee, which currently sits Ex-DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach, be transformed into a kind of supervisory board.

The “Council” should then be responsible for the strategic and policy direction, the daily transactions in the management performs a second body, the General Secretariat. Monitors is both the audit and complience Committee.

In addition, it was decided a women’s quota. All members of FIFA committees will in future undergo integrity checks.