Federal Act
on the Elimination of Discrimination
against People with Disabilities
(Disability Discrimination Act, DDA)

¹ Or­gan­isa­tions for per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies op­er­at­ing throughout Switzer­land that have been es­tab­lished for at least ten years may take leg­al ac­tion in cases of dis­crim­in­a­tion that af­fect a sub­stan­tial num­ber of per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall des­ig­nate the or­gan­isa­tions en­titled to ap­peal.

³ These or­gan­isa­tions have a right of ap­peal:

a.

in civil pro­ceed­ings to de­clare that there is dis­crim­in­a­tion as defined in Art­icle 6;

b.

in pro­ceed­ings to grant au­thor­isa­tion for the con­struc­tion or the renov­a­tion of build­ings and struc­tures in or­der to en­force the leg­al rights defined in Art­icle 7;

c.

in pro­ceed­ings by the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies for plan­ning ap­prov­al and for the re­gis­tra­tion or test­ing of vehicles un­der:

1.

Art­icle 13 para­graph 1 of the Road Traffic Act of 19 Decem­ber 1958²⁰,

2.

Art­icle 18 and 18w of the Rail­ways Act of 20 Decem­ber 1957²¹,

3.

Art­icle 11 and 13 of the Fed­er­al Act of 29 March 1950²² on Trol­ley­bus Com­pan­ies,

4.²³

Art­icles 8 14 and 15b para­graph 2 of the Fed­er­al Act of 3 Oc­to­ber 1975²⁴ on In­land Nav­ig­a­tion,

5.

Art­icle 37 of the Air Nav­ig­a­tion Act of 21 Decem­ber 1948²⁵,

6.²⁶

Art­icle 9 of the Cable­ways Act of 23 June 2006²⁷;

d.

against rul­ings by the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies on the grant­ing of li­cences un­der:

1.

Art­icles 28 and 30 of the Air Nav­ig­a­tion Act of 21 Decem­ber 1948,

2.

Art­icle 14 of the Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions Act of 30 April 1997²⁸,

3.

Art­icle 10 of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 June 1991²⁹ on Ra­dio and Tele­vi­sion.

⁴ The au­thor­ity shall give no­tice of rul­ings un­der para­graph 3 let­ters c and d that may be sub­ject to an ap­peal by or­gan­isa­tions for per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies to the or­gan­isa­tions in writ­ing or by pub­lic­a­tion in the Of­fi­cial Fed­er­al Gaz­ette or in the can­ton­al pub­lic­a­tion or­gan. An or­gan­isa­tion that does not file an ap­peal may only par­ti­cip­ate in sub­sequent pro­ceed­ings as a party if the rul­ing is amended such that per­sons with dis­ab­il­it­ies are dis­crim­in­ated against.

⁵ If ob­jec­tion pro­ceed­ings are con­duc­ted be­fore a rul­ing is is­sued, no­tice must be giv­en of the ap­plic­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 4. An or­gan­isa­tion has a right of ap­peal only if it was a party to the ob­jec­tion pro­ceed­ings.