Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

¹ The claim for dam­ages against any per­son held li­able pur­su­ant to the above pro­vi­sions pre­scribes five years after the date on which the per­son suf­fer­ing dam­age learned of the dam­age and of the per­son li­able for it but in any event ten years after the date on which the harm­ful con­duct took place or ceased.

² If the per­son li­able has com­mit­ted a crim­in­al of­fence through his or her harm­ful con­duct, then the right to dam­ages or sat­is­fac­tion pre­scribes at the earli­est when the right to pro­sec­ute the of­fence be­comes time-barred. If the right to pro­sec­ute is no longer li­able to be­come time-barred be­cause a first in­stance crim­in­al judg­ment has been is­sued, the right to claim dam­ages or sat­is­fac­tion pre­scribes at the earli­est three years after no­tice of the judg­ment is giv­en.