Federal Act
on the Federal Assembly
(Parliament Act, ParlA)

¹ On as­sum­ing of­fice and at the start of every year, each as­sembly mem­ber must in­form his or her of­fice in writ­ing about his or her:

a.¹¹

pro­fes­sion­al activ­it­ies; if the as­sembly mem­ber is an em­ploy­ee, they must give in­form­a­tion about their po­s­i­tion and their em­ploy­er;

b.¹²

fur­ther activ­it­ies on man­age­ment or su­per­vis­ory com­mit­tees as well as ad­vis­ory com­mit­tees and sim­il­ar bod­ies of Swiss and for­eign busi­ness un­der­tak­ings, in­sti­tu­tions and found­a­tions un­der private and pub­lic law;

c.

activ­it­ies as a con­sult­ant or as a spe­cial­ist ad­viser to fed­er­al agen­cies;

d.

per­man­ent man­age­ment or con­sultancy activ­it­ies on be­half of Swiss or for­eign in­terest groups;

e.

par­ti­cip­a­tion in com­mit­tees or oth­er or­gans of the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

^1bis In the case of activ­it­ies lis­ted in para­graph 1 let­ters b−e, the as­sembly mem­ber shall de­clare wheth­er the activ­ity is vol­un­tary or paid. The re­im­burse­ment of ex­penses is not re­garded as pay­ment for an activ­ity.¹³

² The Par­lia­ment­ary Ser­vices main­tain a pub­lic re­gister con­tain­ing the in­form­a­tion provided by as­sembly mem­bers.

³ As­sembly mem­bers whose per­son­al in­terests are dir­ectly af­fected by any mat­ter be­ing con­sidered must in­dic­ate their per­son­al in­terest when mak­ing a state­ment in the coun­cil or in a com­mit­tee.

⁴ Pro­fes­sion­al secrecy in terms of the Swiss Crim­in­al Code¹⁴ is re­served.