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

¹ The fed­er­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity for the com­mer­cial re­gister op­er­ates the cent­ral data­bases on the leg­al en­tit­ies and per­sons re­cor­ded in the can­ton­al re­gisters.⁷⁷⁴ The cent­ral data­bases al­low the re­gistered leg­al en­tit­ies and per­sons to be found, and their data to be linked and dif­fer­en­ti­ated.

² The fed­er­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity for the com­mer­cial re­gister is re­spons­ible for com­pil­ing the data for the cent­ral data­base on leg­al en­tit­ies.⁷⁷⁵ It shall make the pub­lic data on leg­al en­tit­ies avail­able on­line free of charge for in­di­vidu­al quer­ies.

³ The com­mer­cial re­gister of­fices are re­spons­ible for com­pil­ing the data for the cent­ral data­base on per­sons. The fed­er­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity for the com­mer­cial re­gister shall make the data on nat­ur­al per­sons avail­able free of charge on the in­ter­net for in­di­vidu­al quer­ies.⁷⁷⁶

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tionis re­spons­ible for the se­cur­ity of the in­form­a­tion sys­tems and the leg­al­ity of the data pro­cessing.