UEFA Executive Committee

The UEFA Executive Committee is UEFA's supreme executive body. It comprises the UEFA president and 15 other members elected by a UEFA Congress.

Members and vice-presidents
The Executive Committee does not include more than one representative of the same UEFA member association, and each Executive Committee member holds an active office within his member association. The Executive Committee elects a first, second, third, fourth and fifth vice-president, one of whom is chairman of the Finance Committee. The president is entitled to propose candidates.

Term of office
The term of office of the president and Executive Committee members elected by a Congress is four years. Eight members, or seven members and the president, are elected every two years. All members are eligible for re-election. A person aged 70 or more is not eligible for election or re-election. If a vacancy occurs, the next Ordinary Congress elects a replacement for the remaining term of office. If the vacancy occurs in the final year of a term of office, no replacement is elected.

Powers
The Executive Committee is empowered to make decisions on all matters which do not fall within the legal or statutory jurisdiction of the UEFA Congress or another organ. The Executive Committee manages UEFA, except to the extent that it has delegated such management, or unless such management has been delegated by the UEFA Statutes to the UEFA president or the UEFA administration.

Duties
The Executive Committee has the following untransferable duties:
– overall control of UEFA and the issuing of necessary instructions;
– definition of the organisational structure;
– form and supervision of the book-keeping;
– election of two internal auditors and the issuing of their terms of reference;
– appointment of the general secretary and deputy general secretary upon the proposal of the president;
– dismissal of the general secretary and deputy general secretary upon the proposal of the president, or by a decision supported by two-thirds or more of all members of the Executive Committee;
– overall supervision of the UEFA administration, including the general secretary and deputy general secretary, especially in terms of observance of laws, the Statutes, regulations and orders; approval of the annual business plan of the UEFA administration;
– compilation of a written report for presentation to the Ordinary Congress;
– examination of the administration's report to the Ordinary Congress.

The Executive Committee may delegate the preparation and implementation of its decisions or the supervision of business to one or more of its members. The committee is also authorised to delegate management, either fully or partly, to the president, to one or more of its members and/or to the UEFA administration.

Meetings
As a general rule, the Executive Committee meets once every two months, and is convened by the president. The president may invite third parties to attend meetings of the Executive Committee in an advisory capacity. The committee has a quorum of half plus one of its voting members, including the president or, in his absence, a vice-president.





Decisions
Executive Committee decisions come into immediate force, unless the Executive Committee decides otherwise. An Executive Committee member or the president does not take part in the deliberation of any matter or point of issue involving the member association and/or a club affiliated to the member association with which he is associated, or in any case in which a conflict of interest exists.
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