Federal Act on the Protection of Trade Marks and Indications of Source

¹Where jus­ti­fied by con­sumer in­terests, the gen­er­al in­terests of the eco­nomy or of in­di­vidu­al sec­tors, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may define the re­quire­ments un­der Art­icles 48 para­graph 2 and 48a-49 in great­er de­tail.

²It may, in par­tic­u­lar, at the re­quest and based on a pre­lim­in­ary draft of an eco­nom­ic sec­tor, define in great­er de­tail the re­quire­ments un­der which a Swiss in­dic­a­tion of source may be used for spe­cif­ic goods and ser­vices.

³It shall first hear the Can­tons con­cerned and in­ter­ested pro­fes­sion­al and trade as­so­ci­ations, as well as con­sumer or­gan­isa­tions.