SPORTING POWER

The General Assembly of the FIA shall be the sole international body governing motor sport, that is to say it shall hold the exclusive right to take all decisions concerning the organization, direction and management of International Motor Sport.  
 
The FIA shall recognize in each country and for all branches of motoring only one Sporting Power which under all circumstances shall remain responsible to the FIA; the holder of this power is the direct motor sport representative of its country within the FIA and is entrusted with having the international regulations laid down by the International Sporting Code of the FIA enforced in its country.  
 
The holder of the Sporting Power may ask the FIA for authorization to renounce this power. If the General Assembly grants this authorization, it behoves the Assembly, on proposal of the World Motor Sport Council, to designate and admit within the FIA the organization which will henceforth exercise this Power.  
 
Upon the decision of the General Assembly, the exercise of the Sporting Power shall be withdrawn, either temporarily or definitively, from any ACNs or ASNs failing to comply with the decisions of the International Sporting Authority (FIA).