The FIA held its General Assembly in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, today, bringing to a close its annual series of meetings of Sport and Mobility FIA Member Clubs from around the world. The week’s activities will culminate in this evening’s FIA Prize Giving Gala at the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia at which the winners of the Federation’s championships will be honoured.

Opening the Assembly, FIA President Jean Todt highlighted the growing collaboration between the two pillars of the Federation – Sport and Mobility – saying that the close links between the two arms are leading to progress across a number of key issues.

“One goal I have always had for the FIA is to build bridges between our two pillars, and this is happening,” he said: “Working together will make us stronger.”

During today’s Annual General Assembly meeting, the following decisions were taken:

Amendments to the FIA Statutes

FIA Drifting Commission

Upon proposal of the World Motor Sport Council to create a Drifting Commission, the Assembly ratified the amendment of the FIA Statutes to include such Commission among the list of Sporting Commissions.

Additionally, the Assembly agreed to the following amendments to the FIA Statutes:

• In order to raise the level of requirements for activities linked to automobile mobility and tourism, the Assembly agreed to make recognition for this competence conditional on the organisation demonstrating the existence of a permanent activity in the field of automobile mobility and tourism for at least the last three years.
• Harmonisation of sanction procedures between the FIA and the FIA Automobile Mobility and Tourism Regions
• New boundaries for the FIA Automobile Mobility and Tourism Regions III and IV
• The transfer of powers for approving the Internal Regulations of the Automobile Mobility and Tourism Regions from the General Assembly to the World Council for Automobile Mobility and TourismThe transfer of powers for electing members of the specialised Commissions from the General Assembly to the relevant World Councils.
• Changes to the composition and terms of reference of the FIA Nominations Committee

Internal Regulations for Region III and Region IV

Amended Internal Regulations for Region I, Region III and Region IV were ratified by the General Assembly.

Amendments to the FIA International Sporting Code

The Assembly agreed to several amendments to the International Sporting Code, including the following:

• The FIA Rally Commission’s proposal that the additional period following the expiry of the homologation of Group A, N, R and RGT cars be extended to eight years instead of four in order to increase participation in FIA regional rallies.
• The addition of slalom (gymkhana) as a motor sport discipline.
• In changes to Sporting Zones, the Assembly ratified that foreign licence-holders will be able to score points in the classifications of the national championships open to those licence holders.

Ethics Committee

With the term of office of the President of the FIA Ethics Committee coming to an end on 31 December 2018, the Assembly re-elected the incumbent President and sole candidate:

The General Assembly approved the nomination and/or re-nomination of three members to the FIA Ethics Committee for a period of four years (2018-2021). Then successful nominees are:

International Historical Commission

FIA Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee

The General Assembly approved the nomination and/or re-nomination of three members to the FIA Anti-Doping Disciplinary Committee proposed by the WMSC. The three members are:

FIA Sporting Commissions

The composition of the FIA Sporting Commissions was approved as follows:

FIA Mobility Commissions

The composition of the FIA Mobility Commissions was approved as follows:

World Council for Automobile Mobility and Tourism

In replacement of Mr Nigel Alexander (AAA Australia) the Assembly approved the appointment for 2019-2021 of:

FIA Mobility Programmes Committee (ProCom)

(New member in bold)

Deputy President AM&T              Thierry Willemarck                         TCB Belgium

Secretary-General AM&T             Andrew McKellar                           FIA Paris

Region I President                          Thomas Møller Thomsen             FDM Denmark

Region II President                         Mike Noon                                      NZAA New Zealand

Region III President                        Tim Shearman                                 CAA Canada

Region IV President                       Jorge Tomasi Crisci                        ACU Uruguay

MPC Chair                                        Ferry Smith                                     ANWB Netherlands

MSC Chair                                        Luis Palma Figueiredo                  ACP Portugal

FIA Mobility Policy Commission (MPC)

(New member in bold)

Chairman                                          Ferry Smith                                     ANWB Netherlands

Vice-Chairman                                Simon Douglas                                NZAA New Zealand

Member                                            Katrina Wotton                                             AAA Australia

Member                                            Danny Smagghe                                            TCB Belgium

Member                                            Alberto Escobar Poblete                             ACCHI Chile

Member                                            Christian Scholly                             ACA France

Member                                            Philip Purnell                                   AASA South Africa

Member                                            Lluis Puerto                                      RACC Spain

FIA Mobility Services Commission (MSC)

(New member in bold)

Chairman                                          Luis Palma Figueiredo                  ACP Portugal

Vice-Chairman                                Alexander Hrdliczka                      ÖAMTC Austria

Member                                            Alfredo Albornoz Guerrero          ACC Colombia

Member                                            David Gabarró                                 RACC Spain

Member                                            Afsar Hossain                                  AAB Bangladesh

Member                                            Devapriya Hettiarachchi              AAC Sri Lanka

Member                                            Juan Carlos Jerez Guirao             ACCHI Chile

Member                                            Georgiana Moga                           ACR Romania

Member                                            Andrea Oliver                                 ACD Dominican Republic

Member                                            Niels van Unnik                                            ANWB Netherlands

New members of the FIA

The FIA is proud to enlarge its membership and international representation by welcoming the following organisations into its structure:

Definitive affiliation of provisionally affiliated Clubs

Change of Competence of Status

Striking off the rolls

Resignations

Honorary Members

It is with pleasure that the General Assembly awards Honorary status to the following Members:

Date of next meeting

The 2019 FIA Annual General Assembly and Prize Giving Gala will take place on 6 December in Paris, France.