Federal Act on the Protection of Designs
(Designs Act, DesA)

¹ If the Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion, based on an ap­plic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 47 para­graph 1, has reas­on­able grounds to sus­pect that cer­tain items in­ten­ded to be brought in­to or taken out of Swiss cus­toms ter­rit­ory have been un­law­fully man­u­fac­tured, then it shall no­ti­fy both the ap­plic­ant and the de­clar­ant, hold­er or own­er of the items ac­cord­ingly.²⁸

² The Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion shall with­hold the items in ques­tion for a max­im­um of ten work­ing days from the time of no­ti­fic­a­tion pur­su­ant to para­graph 1, so that the ap­plic­ant may ob­tain pre­lim­in­ary meas­ures.

3 Where jus­ti­fied by cir­cum­stances, the Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion may with­hold the items in ques­tion for a max­im­um of ten ad­di­tion­al work­ing days.