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

¹ The Par­lia­ment­ary Ser­vices as­sist the Fed­er­al As­sembly in the ful­fil­ment of its du­ties.

² They carry out the fol­low­ing tasks:

a.

they plan and or­gan­ise the ses­sions and the meet­ings of the com­mit­tees;

b.

they are re­spons­ible for provid­ing sec­ret­ari­al ser­vices, car­ry­ing out trans­la­tion work and tak­ing the minutes of the res­ol­u­tions and de­bates of the coun­cils, the United Fed­er­al As­sembly and the com­mit­tees;

c.

they keep re­cords and of­fer ser­vices in re­la­tion to re­cords and in­form­a­tion tech­no­lo­gies;

c^bis.⁶⁷ they op­er­ate in­form­a­tion sys­tems used to eval­u­ate data for the ful­fil­ment of the tasks of the Fed­er­al As­sembly, its or­gans and the mem­bers of the Coun­cils; this data pro­cessing may also in­clude par­tic­u­larly sens­it­ive per­son­al data; a Fed­er­al As­sembly or­din­ance shall spe­cify the sources used for this pur­pose and reg­u­late ac­cess au­thor­isa­tions and how this data may be dis­closed;

d.

they ad­vise the as­sembly mem­bers, and in par­tic­u­lar the Presid­ing Col­leges of the Coun­cils and the chair­per­sons of the com­mit­tees on fac­tu­al and pro­ced­ur­al mat­ters;

e.

they in­form the gen­er­al pub­lic about the Fed­er­al As­sembly and its activ­it­ies;

f.

they as­sist the Fed­er­al As­sembly in its activ­it­ies with re­gard to in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions;

g.

sub­ject to the re­ser­va­tion of the com­pet­en­cies of the or­gans of the coun­cils, they are re­spons­ible for all oth­er tasks rel­ev­ant to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of Par­lia­ment.