Federal Act
on Cartels and other
Restraints of Competition
(Cartel Act, CartA)

¹ The Sec­ret­ari­at pre­pares the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion's busi­ness, con­ducts any in­vest­ig­a­tions and, to­geth­er with a mem­ber of the presid­ing body, is­sues any ne­ces­sary pro­ced­ur­al rul­ings. It pro­poses mo­tions to the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion and im­ple­ment the lat­ter's de­cisions. It deals with the parties in­volved, third parties and any au­thor­it­ies dir­ectly.

² The Sec­ret­ari­at provides opin­ions (Art. 46 para. 1) and ad­vises gov­ern­ment­al of­fices and un­der­tak­ings on mat­ters re­lat­ing to this Act.