Federal Act
on National Economic Supply
(National Economic Supply Act, NESA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion’s right to bring claims un­der Art­icles 41 and 43 pre­scribes three years after the date on which com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies learned of the claim and in any event ten years after the date on which the right first arose.

² If the per­son sub­ject to an ob­lig­a­tion has com­mit­ted a crim­in­al of­fence through his or her con­duct, the Con­fed­er­a­tion’s right to bring claims pre­scribes at the earli­est when the right to pro­sec­ute the of­fence pre­scribes. If the right to pro­sec­ute is no longer li­able to pre­scrip­tion be­cause a first in­stance crim­in­al judg­ment has been is­sued, the right pre­scribes at the earli­est three years after no­tice of the judg­ment is giv­en.

³ The claims of parties who have suffered loss in terms of Art­icle 41 para­graph 4 pre­scribes three years after the date on which the party suf­fer­ing loss was no­ti­fied of the for­feit­ure of the un­law­fully ob­tained goods or pro­pri­et­ary as­sets by the Con­fed­er­a­tion, but at the latest ten years from the date of for­feit­ure.