Thursday 20 November 2014 20:12, UK
Michael Garcia's report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups will be examined by FIFA's Audit and Compliance Committee chairman.
American prosecutor Garcia and judge Hans-Joachim Eckert issued a joint statement on Friday, confirming the full 430-page report will be passed on to Swiss businessman Domenico Scala.
Scala will then recommend what evidence from the report is passed on to FIFA's Executive Committee, which includes the most powerful figures in the sport.
Eckert last week cleared Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments respectively, saying any rule breaches were 'of very limited scope'.
But Garcia responded by notifying FIFA he intended to appeal against the decision and a further twist on Tuesday saw FIFA lodge a criminal complaint over 'possible misconduct' by individuals in connection with the bids, which was also made note of in Thursday's statement.
"The chairman of the adjudicatory chamber (Eckert) and the chairman of the investigatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee (Garcia) met today to discuss the recent developments," said a FIFA statement.
"Both chairmen agreed that it is of major importance that the FIFA Executive Committee has the information necessary to evaluate which steps are required based on the work done by the FIFA Ethics Committee.
"In order to achieve this, the chairman of the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee will receive full copies of all reports of the investigatory chamber...to determine how much of that information should be made available to the FIFA Executive Committee.
"He then shall take the steps necessary to do so. The chairmen also offered to answer any questions the chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Executive Committee might have.
"The investigatory chamber has already opened a number of formal cases against individuals as a result of that inquiry. Neither the recent referral of the reports to the Swiss Federal Public Prosecutor's Office nor the request to the Chairman of the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee will interfere with those ongoing proceedings."
The statement was released a few hours after it was claimed a FIFA executive committee member had been reported to the ethics committee after asking for "hard cash" in return for votes during bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups - but no action was ever taken.
Les Murray, an Australian who was on the FIFA ethics committee at the time, reported the demand after being informed of it by people working for the Australia 2022 bid.
Sources with knowledge of the cash-for-votes demand said the FIFA ExCo member asked for $5million to build a sports centre - Murray has now questioned why his report of the incident was not mentioned in ethics judge Eckert's findings.
FA chief executive Greg Dyke welcomed the update from FIFA, but he is still keen for the report to be made available to the public.
He told Sky Sports News HQ: "A third person having a look at it is a good idea, and I think it being referred to the FIFA Executive Committee is a good idea.
"But I still think the original Garcia report needs to be published.
"This is a bit more positive than I expected but I just want the report to go to the FIFA Executive Committee and for them to decide to publish it, which is why I wrote to them all earlier in the week.
"His (Sepp Blatter) reply seemed to really say 'Look, we want you to talk to everybody who waived their confidentiality'. We'll talk to people who waived their confidentiality, fine, but I hope they are also going to talk to everybody else who is involved in this whole charade, and actually they will waive their confidentiality.
"What is interesting of course is the people who didn't give evidence seemed to get away with it scot free."
