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

¹ Any per­son who gives cause for the com­mer­cial re­gister au­thor­ity to is­sue a rul­ing or who claims a ser­vice from the same must pay a fee.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the char­ging of the in­di­vidu­al fees, in par­tic­u­lar:

1.

the basis for cal­cu­lat­ing the fees;

2.

the waiv­ing of fees;

3.

li­ab­il­ity when more than one per­son is re­quired to pay a fee;

4.

the due date, billing and ad­vance pay­ment of fees;

5.

the pre­scrip­tion of fee debts;

6.

the share of can­ton­al fee rev­en­ues paid to the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

³ It shall take ac­count of the equi­val­ence prin­ciple and the break-even prin­ciple in reg­u­lat­ing the fees.