UEFA is set to end years of opposition to goal-line technology and have systems in place for Euro 2016 and next season's Champions League and Europa League competitions.
Michel Platini, the UEFA president who is currently suspended from all football-related activities, has always been strongly opposed to goal-line technology but in his absence the organisation has paved the way for its introduction.
UEFA's executive committee, meeting in Paris, has also set out the plan that will be necessary to elect a new president on 3 May, with Platini looking certain to no longer be in the role.
UEFA's general secretary Gianni Infantino told a news conference in Paris: "In terms of goal-line technology and its use in the future, the final decision will be made in January but the executive committee was pretty positive in its mindset.
"If it happens for Euro 2016 then it will also happen for the club competitions for next season, the Champions League and Europa League. This will be in addition to the five assistants."
Infantino said Platini himself had suggested it be considered, and the logistics of introducing systems in 80 venues across Europe would now be looked at.
UEFA will hold an extraordinary congress in Zurich on 25 February, the day before the FIFA presidential election. That would be an opportunity to fire the starting gun on UEFA's own presidential election to succeed Platini, with the election taking place two months later in 3 May in Budapest.
Platini is facing a FIFA ethics committee disciplinary hearing next week over a €1.8 million payment he received from FIFA in 2011 - he says as part of an agreement made 13 years earlier for work he carried out from 1998 to 2002.
If found guilty of ethics code breaches he is certain to receive a lengthy ban, and if cleared would then stand for the FIFA presidency.
UEFA also announced the prize money for Euro 2016 with the 24 countries involved earning a minimum of €8m and a maximum of €27m.
Meanwhile, tickets for the tournament will go on sale from UEFA.com next Monday.
Fans have a month to register their applications for tickets and will be informed if they have been successful in February.
