FIFA: Mark Pieth to leave the presidency of the Independent Governance Committee at the end of 2013

Swiss Mark Pieth will leave the presidency of FIFA's (Federation Internationale de Football Association) Independent Governance Committee at the end of 2013, he announced on the 01/10/2013. He says he does not know whether the Commission will remain active after his departure.

"Today, independent governance structures were put in place and can function without me," he said to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The role of the Commission, set up in November 2011, was to work on concrete proposals to improve FIFA’s governance and transparency. These recommendations included amendments to the judicial system and, as the main point, an Ethics Committee with two chambers (instruction and judgment) and a new Audit and Compliance Committee with independent chairmen. They were adopted by FIFA's Congress in Budapest (Hungary), in May 2012.

Mark Peith has lead the OECD's (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) consulting group on corruption in international markets. In Switzerland, he also helped the Federal Department of Justice and Police to develop…