RESIGNATIONS - STRIKING OFF THE ROLLS - EXPELLING - SANCTIONS

a) Resignations : Resignations must be given by 31st March of each year in a registered letter signed by the President and one of the Members of the Committee or the Board of Directors. Past that date, the subscription for the current year shall be due.
Resignations shall be submitted to the General Assembly for recording. They may be recorded at the date on which they are given.  
 
b) Striking off the rolls : Member Clubs, Associations or Federations whose Statutes or activity, in the opinion of either of the World Councils, no longer meet what the FIA expects of them, or which have not met their financial commitments with respect to the FIA or to the other Members of the FIA may be struck off the rolls - in particular when they have defaulted in the payment of their financial obligations on several occasions without being able to give a valid reason and it has been deemed that the sanctions set out in Article 25 are no longer sufficient or adequate.
 
Striking off the rolls shall be pronounced by the General Assembly, on recommendation of either of the World Councils.  
 
c) Expulsion : The Clubs, Associations or Federations which, in the opinion of either of the World Councils, have seriously infringed the regulations of the FIA, may be liable to expulsion.
Expulsion shall be pronounced by the General Assembly, on recommendation of a World Council. 

d) Procedures in case of striking off or expulsion : Every member Club, Association or Federation which a World Council proposes to expel shall be entitled to state its case. To this end :  
 
• the Club, Association or Federation concerned shall be informed by registered letter with official acknowledgement of receipt of the measure proposed against it and of the reasons put forward to justify the said measure;
• the Club, Association or Federation concerned shall be invited - with 30 days' notice - to appear in the person of one of its legal representatives before the relevant World Council and the General Assembly to state its case;
• the deliberations of the relevant World Council and of the General Assembly shall take place without the representative of the Club, Association or Federation concerned being present.  
 
Save if the General Assembly should decide otherwise, striking off the rolls and expulsion shall take effect as from the date of the decision. In either case, subscriptions relating to the current year shall accrue to the FIA.  
 
e) Sanctions : Sanctions such as striking off the rolls, expulsions, or withdrawal of Sporting Power shall be pronounced by the General Assembly in compliance with the procedure provided for in the Statutes.  
 
In addition, the World Motor Sport Council may directly impose the sanctions provided for in the International Sporting Code, and where appropriate the World Council for Automobile Mobility and Tourism may impose fines on or demand the exclusion from FIA bodies or international sporting events of licence holders, executive officers or members of ASNs or ACNs:  
 
1) who have contravened the Statutes and Regulations of the FIA;  
 
2) who have taken part in an event or a Championship not entered on the International Calendar;  
 
3) who have pursued an objective contrary or opposed to those of the FIA;  
 
4) who have refused to apply decisions of the FIA;  
 
5) who by words, deeds or writings have inflicted moral injury and loss on the FIA, a World Council, their Members or their executive officers.  
 
Sanctions proposed by a World Council shall be subject to appeal to the International Court of Appeal which shall take the final decision after hearing the appellants.