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

¹ Un­der­tak­ings shall main­tain a man­age­ment sys­tem and stip­u­late the fol­low­ing therein:

1.

the sup­ply chain policy for min­er­als and metals that po­ten­tially ori­gin­ate from con­flict-af­fected and high-risk areas;

2.

the sup­ply chain policy for products or ser­vices in re­la­tion to which there is a reas­on­able sus­pi­cion of child la­bour;

3.

a sys­tem by which the sup­ply chain can be traced.

² They shall identi­fy and as­sess the risks of harm­ful im­pacts in their sup­ply chain. They shall draw up a risk man­age­ment plan and take meas­ures to min­im­ise the risks iden­ti­fied.

³ They shall have their com­pli­ance with the due di­li­gence ob­lig­a­tions in re­la­tion to the min­er­als and metals audited by an in­de­pend­ent spe­cial­ist.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall is­sue the de­tailed reg­u­la­tions; it shall base them on in­ter­na­tion­ally re­cog­nised reg­u­la­tions, such as the OECD prin­ciples in par­tic­u­lar.