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

¹ In ex­er­cising su­per­vis­ory con­trol in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 26, mem­bers of com­mit­tees and del­eg­a­tions shall re­cuse them­selves if they have a dir­ect per­son­al in­terest in any item of busi­ness or could be im­par­tial for any oth­er reas­ons. The rep­res­ent­a­tion of polit­ic­al in­terests, and in par­tic­u­lar those of com­munit­ies, parties or as­so­ci­ations, is not a reas­on for re­cus­al.

² In the event of any dis­pute, the com­mit­tee or del­eg­a­tion con­cerned shall make a fi­nal de­cision on re­cus­al after hear­ing the mem­ber con­cerned.