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

¹ Planned con­cen­tra­tions of un­der­tak­ings must be no­ti­fied to the Com­pet­i­tion Com­mis­sion be­fore their im­ple­ment­a­tion if in the fin­an­cial year pre­ced­ing the con­cen­tra­tion:

a.

the un­der­tak­ings con­cerned to­geth­er re­por­ted a turnover of at least 2 bil­lion Swiss francs, or a turnover in Switzer­land of at least 500 mil­lion Swiss francs, and

b.

at least two of the un­der­tak­ings con­cerned each re­por­ted a turnover in Switzer­land of at least 100 mil­lion Swiss francs.

² …¹⁶

³ In the case of in­sur­ance com­pan­ies, «turnover» is re­placed by «an­nu­al gross in­sur­ance premi­um in­come», and in the case of banks and oth­er fin­an­cial in­ter­me­di­ar­ies that are sub­ject to the ac­count­ing reg­u­la­tions set out in the Bank­ing Act of 8 Novem­ber 1934¹⁷ by «gross in­come».¹⁸

⁴ Not­with­stand­ing any­thing set out in para­graphs 1 to 3 above, no­ti­fic­a­tion is man­dat­ory if one of the un­der­tak­ings con­cerned has in pro­ceed­ings un­der this Act in a fi­nal and non-ap­peal­able de­cision been held to be dom­in­ant in a mar­ket in Switzer­land, and if the con­cen­tra­tion con­cerns either that mar­ket or an ad­ja­cent mar­ket or a mar­ket up­stream or down­stream there­of.

⁵ The Fed­er­al As­sembly may by gen­er­al fed­er­al de­cree not sub­ject to a ref­er­en­dum:

a.

ad­just the amounts set forth in para­graphs 1 to 3 above, tak­ing ac­count of any change in cir­cum­stances;

b.

es­tab­lish spe­cial cri­ter­ia for the no­ti­fic­a­tion of con­cen­tra­tions in cer­tain sec­tors of the eco­nomy.