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

¹ The art­icles of as­so­ci­ation shall be drawn up in writ­ing and sub­mit­ted to an as­sembly con­vened by the founder mem­bers for con­sulta­tion and ap­prov­al.

² In ad­di­tion, a writ­ten re­port by the founder mem­bers on any con­tri­bu­tions in kind shall be made avail­able to the as­sembly for con­sulta­tion. The founder mem­bers must con­firm that there are no con­tri­bu­tions in kind, in­stances of off­set­ting or spe­cial priv­ileges oth­er than those men­tioned in the sup­port­ing doc­u­ments.⁷¹⁰

³ This as­sembly shall also ap­point the ne­ces­sary gov­ern­ing bod­ies.

⁴ Un­til the co­oper­at­ive has been entered in the com­mer­cial re­gister, the mem­ber­ship may be es­tab­lished only by sign­ing the art­icles of as­so­ci­ation.