The head of Austria's motorsport federation says he is "saddened" by proposed changes that will reduce accountability at motorsport's governing body the FIA.
Oliver Schmerold, the chief executive officer of the OAMTC, says the new statutes would be "not good governance" and "not good in terms of checks and balances".
Schmerold said he had communicated his concerns to the president of the FIA, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, but it is his "sad projection" that the changes will be approved by member clubs on Friday.
The changes to the FIA statutes will be put to the vote at a meeting of the general assembly in Kigali, Rwanda.
Schmerold said the likely consequences for the FIA would be that "we lose a certain level of checks and balances [and] we might be questioned by other international bodies about our governance and we could run the risk that things go wrong".
He said the changes, which limit the independence of the FIA's audit and ethics committees, would make it harder to recruit "established and independent individuals" to them.
"The ethics and audit committees would lose that attractiveness so there would be maybe in future only individuals on those committees who are more or less in one way or another depending on the actual leadership," Schmerold said.
"Which individual who is behind good governance and who has shown he has a good professional track record would be ready to take on a position on a committee which is completely controlled by two individuals?"
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