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

¹ If an ini­ti­at­ive is en­dorsed, the rel­ev­ant com­mit­tee of the coun­cil to which the ini­ti­at­ive was sub­mit­ted shall pre­pare a bill with­in two years.

² If the au­thor of an ini­ti­at­ive or the re­quest for the pre­par­a­tion of an ini­ti­at­ive is not a mem­ber of the com­mit­tee, he or she may par­ti­cip­ate in the pre­lim­in­ary ex­am­in­a­tionin an ad­vis­ory ca­pa­city at the meet­ings of the com­mit­tee of his or her coun­cil.¹¹¹

³ The re­port ex­plain­ing the com­mit­tee bill to the Fed­er­al As­sembly shall ful­fil the re­quire­ments for a Fed­er­al Coun­cil Dis­patch (Art. 141).

⁴ The ob­lig­a­tions to con­duct an as­sess­ment un­der Art­icle 4 and the ob­lig­a­tion to es­tim­ate reg­u­lat­ory costs un­der Art­icle 5 of the Busi­ness Cost Re­lief Act of 29 Septem­ber 2023¹¹² ap­ply by ana­logy.¹¹³