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

¹ An ini­ti­at­ive shall be en­dorsed or a pro­pos­al for the pre­par­a­tion of an ini­ti­at­ive shall be ap­proved if the need in prin­ciple for le­gis­la­tion is con­firmed and a par­lia­ment­ary ini­ti­at­ive is judged to be the ap­pro­pri­ate course of ac­tion.

²A par­lia­ment­ary ini­ti­at­ive shall in par­tic­u­lar be judged ap­pro­pri­ate if:

a.

the ini­ti­at­ive pro­poses a bill re­lat­ing to the or­gan­isa­tion or pro­ced­ures of the Fed­er­al As­sembly;

b.

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil has not pre­pared a bill in time, des­pite a mo­tion be­ing passed to this ef­fect; or

c.¹⁰¹

the pre­par­a­tion of a bill by this means will prob­ably be achieved more quickly than by a mo­tion.

³ The com­mit­tee shall ex­am­ine how it can pre­pare the bill in the time re­quired, tak­ing ac­count of the meth­ods at its dis­pos­al.