The FIA has to this point refused to touch upon the reasoning behind the brand new statutes.
BBC Sport has requested for remark particularly on Schmerold’s accusations however has acquired no response.
Schmerold mentioned that Ben Sulayem and head of authorized affairs Paul O’Dowd had responded to his objections when he raised them on Tuesday.
He mentioned: “The reply of the president and the pinnacle of authorized was that with the intention to shield the [identity of] people who may be topic to investigation from being revealed to a broader viewers it wanted to be stored to a really shut group.
“Their argument goes that to not share stories of the ethics committee with the total senate protects the people from being exhibited to a broader public. Whoever may be topic of an investigation.”
Schmerold mentioned he didn’t agree with this line of argument.
“If we can not depend on the integrity of a senate member then now we have one other concern,” he mentioned.
“The senate consists of 16 people who see the report. We will need to have the belief that they may take care of the topic in an applicable means. I’d quite have it with 16 folks, the vast majority of whom are actually impartial, than a detailed group of solely two who will not be impartial from one another.”
Schmerold added {that a} proposed new statute that dictates that, within the occasion both the FIA president or the president of the senate is investigated, the opposite receives the report, was additionally a priority as a result of the 2 males are allies.
The president of the senate, Carmelo Sanz De Barros, is a member of Ben Sulayem’s four-person management crew.
Schmerold mentioned: “There’s a robust hyperlink between the people and if solely the 2 of them are liable for the management, it is not impartial any extra.”
He mentioned he was additionally involved by a brand new observe adopted by the FIA management in tabling proposals.
“This time, as with the proposal in June this yr, the world councils have been solely requested to vote by e-vote, with no assembly, with no dialogue, and in parallel to the e-vote of the world council the paperwork have been already despatched out to all of the members within the normal meeting,” he mentioned.
Schmerold isn’t attending the final meeting in individual so as “to indicate our distance to the present developments” and mentioned the Austrian federation would vote remotely.
