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

¹ If the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion de­cides to con­duct an in­vest­ig­a­tion, the Sec­ret­ari­at pub­lishes the prin­cip­al terms of the no­ti­fic­a­tion of the con­cen­tra­tion and states the time frame with­in which third parties may com­ment on the no­ti­fied con­cen­tra­tion.

² At the out­set of the in­vest­ig­a­tion the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion de­cides wheth­er the con­cen­tra­tion may ex­cep­tion­ally be im­ple­men­ted pro­vi­sion­ally or wheth­er it should re­main sus­pen­ded.

³ The Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion shall com­plete its in­vest­ig­a­tion with­in four months un­less pre­ven­ted from do­ing so for reas­ons at­trib­ut­able to the un­der­tak­ings con­cerned.