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

¹ The com­mit­tee may in­volve the Fed­er­al De­part­ment re­spons­ible in or­der to ob­tain all the leg­al and ma­ter­i­al in­form­a­tion re­quired for the pre­par­a­tion of a bill.

² It shall sub­mit the pre­lim­in­ary draftand its ex­plan­at­ory re­port for con­sulta­tion in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions of the Con­sulta­tion Pro­ced­ure Act of 18 March 2005¹¹⁴.¹¹⁵

³ It shall sub­mit the re­port and bill that it sub­mits to its Coun­cil to the Fed­er­al Coun­cil at the same time in or­der that the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may state its opin­ion there­on with­in an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od; ex­cep­ted from the fore­go­ing are pro­vi­sions on the or­gan­isa­tion or the pro­ced­ures of the Fed­er­al As­sembly that are not laid down by stat­ute and which do not directly affect Federal Council.¹¹⁶

^3bis In the case of a draft bill un­der Art­icle 165 or Art­icle 173 para­graph 1 let­ter c of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion, the dead­line for the Fed­er­al Coun­cil's opin­ion may be set in such a way that it can be dealt with in the next or­din­ary or ex­traordin­ary ses­sion.¹¹⁷

⁴ If the Fed­er­al Coun­cil re­quests any al­ter­a­tion, the com­mit­tee shall dis­cuss the opin­ion of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil be­fore con­sid­er­a­tion of the bill in the first coun­cil.