25. April 2012

IGC in line with European Parliament on reform of FIFA

The Chairman of the Independent Governance Committee (IGC) welcomes the Recommendations by the European Parliamentary Assembly on the reform of Sports Governing Bodies. The IGC considers the Recommendations a helpful support of the ongoing governance reform of FIFA.

The Reports of the European Parliamentary Assembly and the Independent Governance Committee concur in particular in one of the cornerstones of the reform: the creation of a truly independent and effective investigatory and adjudicatory bodies, able to investigate and try past and future wrongdoings upon their own initiative.

It is the understanding of the IGC that the Executive Committee of FIFA will make such a suggestion to the 2012 Congress in May. Like the Parliamentary Assembly, the IGC has demanded that the ISMM/ISL Agreement be published. It has called upon the Swiss authorities to fully disclose the document as soon as legally possible.