Federal Act
on Archiving
(Archiving Act, ArchA)

¹ This Act reg­u­lates the archiv­ing of doc­u­ments from:

a.

the Fed­er­al As­sembly;

b.

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion as defined in Art­icle 2 of the Gov­ern­ment and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Or­gan­isa­tion Act of 21 March 1997³, and the units of the armed forces;

c.

Swiss dip­lo­mat­ic and con­su­lar mis­sions abroad;

d.⁴

the Fed­er­al Crim­in­al Court, the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court, the Fed­er­al Pat­ent Court and the fed­er­al ap­peals and ar­bit­ra­tion com­mis­sions;

e.

the autonom­ous in­sti­tu­tions of the Con­fed­er­a­tion;

f.

the Swiss Na­tion­al Bank;

g.

ex­tra-par­lia­ment­ary com­mit­tees;

h.

oth­er pub­lic or private law bod­ies that ful­fil ex­ec­ut­ive tasks del­eg­ated to them by the Con­fed­er­a­tion, with the ex­cep­tion of the can­tons;

i.

former fed­er­al bod­ies.

² This Act also ap­plies to the use of archive re­cords be­long­ing to the Con­fed­er­a­tion by fed­er­al bod­ies and by third parties.

³ The Fed­er­al Su­preme Court shall reg­u­late the archiv­ing of their doc­u­ments in ac­cord­ance with the prin­ciples con­tained in this Act and in con­sulta­tion with the Swiss Fed­er­al Archives (Fed­er­al Archives).⁵