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

¹ The Fed­er­al As­sembly shall par­ti­cip­ate:

a.

in the sig­ni­fic­ant as­pects of the plan­ning of state activ­it­ies;

b.

in de­term­in­ing the stra­tegic goals of units that have be­come autonom­ous in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8 para­graph 5 of the Gov­ern­ment and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Or­gan­isa­tion Act of 21 March 1997⁴⁰.⁴¹

^1bis It par­ti­cip­ates by:

a.

gath­er­ing in­form­a­tion on its activ­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 from Fed­er­al Coun­cil re­ports or ac­know­ledging such re­ports;

b.

man­dat­ing the Fed­er­al Coun­cil:

1.

to make spe­cif­ic plans or to al­ter the main ele­ments of a plan, or

2.

to de­term­ine stra­tegic goals for the units that have be­come autonom­ous or to al­ter such goals;

c.

tak­ing de­cisions of gen­er­al prin­ciple and plan­ning de­cisions.⁴²

² Gen­er­al prin­ciple de­cisions and plan­ning de­cisions are pre­lim­in­ary de­cisions that state that cer­tain goals must be achieved, prin­ciples and cri­ter­ia must be ob­served or meas­ures must be planned.

³ Gen­er­al prin­ciple de­cisions and plan­ning de­cisions shall be is­sued in the form of a simple fed­er­al de­cree. For gen­er­al prin­ciple de­cisions and plan­ning de­cisions of great­er im­port­ance, the form of a fed­er­al de­cree may be chosen.

⁴ If the Fed­er­al Coun­cil does not ad­here to the man­dates it has been giv­en or gen­er­al prin­ciple and plan­ning de­cisions, it must provide jus­ti­fic­a­tion for do­ing so.