World football’s governing body Fifa has taken another step in its reform efforts by scrapping bonuses for its senior executives, according to the Bloomberg news agency.

The development will apply to Fifa’s Executive Committee, a 25-strong body which is responsible for approving lucrative broadcast and sponsorship agreements. The Executive Committee has been at the centre of a number of high-profile corruption cases in recent years and Domenico Scala, chairman of Fifa’s audit and compliance committee, said executives agreed to end the bonuses after he argued that they created a risk of unethical behaviour.

“FIFA’s executive committee is an oversight and decision-making body, they are not responsible for sales,” Scala said. “From a governance perspective we don’t want to provide a bonus to people overseeing the operations.”

Scala declined to say how much the bonuses were worth, only describing them as “significant.” Fifa’s 2012 financial report detailed that it paid $33.5m (€24.8m) to “key management personnel,” who included the executive board and finance committee.