Standing Orders of the National Council
(SO-NC)

¹ The fol­low­ing per­sons are al­lowed ac­cess to the Cham­ber and its ante­rooms (the Lobby and Ante­cham­ber) dur­ing the ses­sions:

a.

mem­bers of the Fed­er­al As­sembly;

b.

mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the Fed­er­al Chan­cel­lor;

c.

mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Su­preme Court rep­res­ent­ing the fed­er­al courts on items of busi­ness in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 162 para­graph 2 ParlA;

d.

Par­lia­ment­ary Ser­vices staff, as their du­ties re­quire;

e.

staff ac­com­pa­ny­ing mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, the Fed­er­al Chan­cel­lor or mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Su­preme Court, as their du­ties re­quire;

f.

pho­to­graph­ers and cam­era crew bear­ing a pass is­sued by Par­lia­ment­ary Ser­vices.

² Dur­ing ses­sions, ac­cred­ited journ­al­ists and the per­sons hold­ing an entry pass in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 69 ParlA also have ac­cess.

³ The gal­lery is open to the pub­lic, while the press gal­lery is open to ac­cred­ited journ­al­ists.

⁴ In the case of sit­tings in cam­era (Art. 4 para. 2 and 3 ParlA), only the per­sons spe­cified in para­graph 1 let­ters a–d have ac­cess to the Cham­ber and to its ante­cham­bers. The gal­ler­ies are cleared.

⁵ The Pres­id­ent may is­sue fur­ther reg­u­la­tions on ac­cess to the Cham­ber, its ante­cham­bers and the gal­ler­ies; in par­tic­u­lar he or she may im­pose time lim­its on the right to vis­it the gal­lery when there are large num­bers of vis­it­ors.

⁶ The Pres­id­ent may is­sue reg­u­la­tions on the use of the rooms while the Coun­cil is not in ses­sion.