Federal Act on the Privileges, Immunities and Facilities and the Financial Subsidies granted by Switzerland as a Host State

¹In­ter­na­tion­al non-gov­ern­ment­al or­gan­isa­tions (IN­GOs) may es­tab­lish them­selves in Switzer­land in ac­cord­ance with Swiss law.

²The Con­fed­er­a­tion may fa­cil­it­ate the es­tab­lish­ment or the activ­it­ies of an INGO in Switzer­land sub­ject to the ap­plic­able law. It may ac­cord an INGO the fin­an­cial sub­sidies and oth­er sup­port meas­ures provided for un­der this Act.

³IN­GOs may be en­titled to be­ne­fits provided for un­der oth­er fed­er­al acts, in par­tic­u­lar the tax ex­emp­tion provided for un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 14 Decem­ber 1990 on Dir­ect Fed­er­al Tax­a­tion¹ and the sim­pli­fied pro­ced­ures for the hir­ing of for­eign per­son­nel provided for un­der Swiss le­gis­la­tion.

⁴IN­GOs are not eli­gible for the priv­ileges, im­munit­ies and fa­cil­it­ies con­tem­plated by this Act.