Under changes overseen by new ISU President Jan Dijkema, all ISU members will be entitled to a fixed annual amount of $25,000 (£20,000/€23,000).

Those who administer over both figure and speed skating will receive double that amount.

In return, ISU Members must submit an annual report on "their most important initiatives to promote and improve their skating activities".

This follows the installation of a three-person Development Commission consisting of Dijkema's Dutch compatriot Jildou Gemser, along with Finland's Susanna Rahkamo and Japan's Tatsuro Matsumura.

They will replace the position previously held by sole development coordinator György Sallak, the Hungarian who came second in the ISU Presidential race but faced a backlog of opposition over the way he had controlled funding.

Increasing transparency has been hailed as a priority of the new system.

Strategic plans, an efficient application-review system and a results-orientated approach are other aims.

Each project budget will be assessed for its value, rationale and cost-effectiveness.

The total budget reserved for development funding has also increased to CHF8 million (£6.5 million/$8 million/€7.4 million).

"Since the [ISU] Congress [in June in Dubrovnik], the ISU Council has been working hard to restructure its Development Programme," said Dijkema in a release welcoming the changes. 

"It was clearly outdated and did not fit within our objective to achieve good governance. 

"I believe that development, along with marketing, promotion, digitalisation and good governance, are key areas that need reforming. 

"Therefore I am pleased we can now move to the implementation phase of the ISU Development Programme and continue to move forward."