The FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE L'AUTOMOBILE (FIA), a non-profit making world organization and an international association of national Automobile Clubs, Automobile Associations, Touring Clubs, and national Federations for motoring and for motor sport, was founded in 1904 and enjoys consultative status with the U.N. It has its Headquarters in Paris, or in such place as the General Assembly may determine. 
 
The FIA shall refrain from manifesting racial, political or religious discrimination in the course of its activities and from taking any action in this respect.