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

¹ The Con­trol Com­mit­tees each ap­point three of their mem­bers to the Con­trol Del­eg­a­tion (CDel). The Del­eg­a­tion con­sti­tutes it­self.

² The Del­eg­a­tion su­per­vises activ­it­ies in the field of state se­cur­ity and the in­tel­li­gence ser­vices and su­per­vises state activ­it­ies in mat­ters that must be kept secret be­cause their dis­clos­ure to un­au­thor­ised per­sons may be ser­i­ously det­ri­ment­al to na­tion­al in­terests.⁵⁹

³ It ac­cepts ad­di­tion­al spe­cif­ic man­dates that are as­signed to it by a Con­trol Com­mit­tee.

^3bis The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall in­form the Del­eg­a­tion at the latest 24 hours after mak­ing its de­cision of or­ders to safe­guard the in­terests of the coun­try or to safe­guard in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity.⁶⁰

⁴ The Del­eg­a­tion shall sub­mit re­ports and its pro­pos­als there­on to the Con­trol Com­mit­tees.⁶¹

⁵ It reaches de­cisions by a simple ma­jor­ity of its vot­ing mem­bers.