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

¹ If a mo­tion is still pending after two years, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall re­port to the Fed­er­al As­sembly each year on what it has done in re­la­tion thereto and on how it in­tends to ful­fil the man­date. This re­port shall be sub­mit­ted to the com­mit­tees re­spons­ible.

² A com­mit­tee or the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall re­quest that a mo­tion be closed if its man­date has been ful­filled. The re­quest shall be ad­dressed to both cham­bers un­less the mo­tion relates to is­sues of the or­gan­isa­tion or pro­ced­ure of a spe­cif­ic cham­ber.

³ A re­quest for a mo­tion to be closed may also be made if the man­date has not been ful­filled but the mo­tion should no longer be pur­sued. The re­quest shall be jus­ti­fied:

a.

with a spe­cial re­port on the mo­tion to be closed; or

b.

in a dis­patch on a Fed­er­al As­sembly bill on sub­ject mat­ter con­nec­ted with the mo­tion.

⁴ If the de­cisions of the two cham­bers on the re­quest to close a mo­tion do not cor­res­pond, the pro­ced­ure for the set­tle­ment of dif­fer­ences in Art­icle 95 ap­plies.

⁵ If a re­quest to close a mo­tion is re­jec­ted by both cham­bers, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil must ful­fil the man­date con­tained in the mo­tion with­in one year or with­in the peri­od fixed by the two cham­bers on re­ject­ing the re­quest.

⁶ If the Fed­er­al Coun­cil fails to com­ply with the peri­od fixed, a de­cision on ex­tend­ing the peri­od al­lowed or on clos­ing the mo­tion shall be taken in the next or­din­ary ses­sion in both cham­bers at the re­quest of the com­mit­tees re­spons­ible.