Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ SEM de­cides on grant­ing or re­fus­ing to grant asylum as well as on re­mov­al from Switzer­land.¹⁴

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall identi­fy states in addition to the EU/EFTA states in which on the basis of its find­ings:¹⁵

a.

there is pro­tec­tion against per­se­cu­tion, as a safe nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin;

b.

there is ef­fi­cient pro­tec­tion against re­foule­ment as defined in Art­icle 5 para­graph 1, as a safe third coun­try.

³ It shall peri­od­ic­ally re­view de­cisions made in terms of para­graph 2.

⁴ It shall provide the com­pet­ent com­mit­tees of the Fed­er­al As­sembly with the list of states in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 let­ter a for con­sulta­tion pri­or to any amend­ment and at least once each year.¹⁶