B. The International Council of Arbitration for Sport (ICAS)

2. Attributions

S6 The ICAS exercises the following functions :

1. It adopts and amends this Code ;
2. It elects from among its members for a renewable period of four years :
   
   • the President proposed by the IOC,
   • two Vice-Presidents (one proposed by the IFs and one by the National Olympic Committees [NOCs]), who shall deputize
   • the President if necessary, by order of seniority in age,the President of the Ordinary Arbitration Division and the President of the Appeals Arbitration Division of the CAS,
   • the deputies of the two Division Presidents who can replace them in the event they are prevented from carrying out their functions;
3. It appoints the personalities who are to constitute the list of arbitrators and the list of CAS mediators and can remove them from those lists (Article S3);
4. It exercises those functions concerning the challenge and removal of arbitrators, and any other functions which the Procedural Rules confer upon it;
5. It looks after the financing of the CAS. To this end, inter alia;
   5.1 it receives and manages the funds allocated to its operations, in conformity with the financial regulations of the CAS;
   5.2 it approves the ICAS budget prepared by the CAS Court Office;
   5.3 it approves the annual accounts of the CAS established by the CAS Court Office;
6. It appoints the CAS Secretary General and terminates his duties upon proposal of the President;
7. It supervises the activities of the CAS Court Office;
8. If it deems such action appropriate, it sets up regional or local, permanent or ad hoc arbitration structures ;
9. If it deems such action appropriate, it creates a legal aid fund to facilitate access to CAS arbitration and determines the terms of implementation ;
10. It may take any other action which it deems likely to protect the rights of the parties and, in particular, to best guarantee the total independence of the arbitrators and to promote the settlement of sports-related disputes through arbitration.
    

S7 The ICAS exercises its functions either itself, or through the intermediary of its Board, comprising the President and two Vice-Presidents of the ICAS, the President of the Ordinary Arbitration Division and the President of the CAS Appeals Arbitration Division.

The ICAS may not delegate to the Board the functions listed under Article S6, paragraphs 1, 2, 5.2 and 5.3.