Qatar must meet a March deadline for specific labour reforms or it could risk losing the 2022 World Cup finals, FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger said.

The German, who was formerly head of his country’s FA and has been a vocal critic of the desert state’s ability to host a World Cup under extreme summer heat, said a proposal would be made to the world governing body’s Exco meeting tomorrow.

“Qataris must deploy, by a March 10, 2015 deadline, the independent commission – tasked with regularly monitoring human rights conditions at World Cup construction sites and note progress – as demanded in the Piper report,” Zwanziger told Sport Bild magazine.

“Until now apparently not much has happened,” he said.

Reports of human rights violations among migrant workers in the energy-rich Gulf state prompted a Qatar-sponsored review of labour legislation by British-based law firm DLA Piper, which made several recommendations including the creation of a minimum wage for each category of construction worker.

Zwanziger added that if the Qataris failed to implement the re-commendations by next year’s deadline it could have consequences for the 2022 tournament.

“Then I would expect that a national federation would put in a request for a vote by the 209 member federations at the FIFA congress at the end of May on stripping Qatar of the World Cup,” he said.