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

¹ The meet­ings of the coun­cils and of the United Fed­er­al As­sembly are open to the pub­lic. The de­bates are pub­lished in full in the Of­fi­cial Bul­let­in of the Fed­er­al As­sembly. The de­tails of pub­lic­a­tion are reg­u­lated in an or­din­ance of the Fed­er­al As­sembly.

² For the pro­tec­tion of ma­jor se­cur­ity in­terests or for the pro­tec­tion of per­son­al pri­vacy, a meet­ing in cam­era may be re­ques­ted. The fol­low­ing have the right to make such a re­quest:

a.

a sixth of the mem­bers of either coun­cil or of the United Fed­er­al As­sembly;

b.

a ma­jor­ity of the mem­bers of a com­mit­tee;

c.

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.

³ The de­bate on an ap­plic­a­tion for a meet­ing in cam­era is it­self held in cam­era.

⁴ Any per­son who par­ti­cip­ates in a meet­ing in cam­era is ob­liged to pre­serve secrecy with re­gard to the pro­ceed­ings there­of.