Federal Act
on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss
(Higher Education Act, HEdA)

¹ If the level of av­er­age an­nu­al ba­sic con­tri­bu­tions de­term­ined by the Con­fed­er­a­tion for the first time un­der this Act is con­sid­er­ably dif­fer­ent from the level ef­fect­ively paid on av­er­age to can­ton­al uni­versit­ies and uni­versit­ies of ap­plies sci­ences with­in a four-year peri­od un­der pre­vi­ous le­gis­la­tion, then the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall re­quest an ad­just­ment of the con­tri­bu­tion rates un­der Art­icle 50 when it sub­mits the first budget ap­pro­pri­ation re­quest for ba­sic con­tri­bu­tions un­der this Act.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall es­tab­lish the four-year fund­ing peri­od and the rel­ev­ance cri­ter­ia un­der para­graph 1.

³ It shall first hear the Plen­ary As­sembly.