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

¹ On­go­ing pro­ced­ures be­fore the Car­tel Com­mis­sion re­lat­ing to agree­ments af­fect­ing com­pet­i­tion shall be sus­pen­ded on the com­mence­ment of this Act; if ne­ces­sary, they shall be con­tin­ued in ac­cord­ance with the new law after the ex­piry of a peri­od of six months.

² New pro­ced­ures be­fore the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion re­lat­ing to agree­ments af­fect­ing com­pet­i­tion may at the earli­est be star­ted six months after the com­mence­ment of this Act, un­less the po­ten­tial ad­dress­ees of a rul­ing have asked for an in­vest­ig­a­tion to be con­duc­ted soon­er. Pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tions may be con­duc­ted at any time.

³ Fi­nal and non-ap­peal­able rul­ings and re­com­mend­a­tions ac­cep­ted in ac­cord­ance with the Car­tel Act of 20 Decem­ber 1985⁵⁶, in­clud­ing mat­ters re­lat­ing to sanc­tions, shall con­tin­ue to be gov­erned by the pre­vi­ous law.