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

¹ The re­spons­ible com­mit­tee in each coun­cil shall de­cide wheth­er to en­dorse a pe­ti­tion or wheth­er it shall re­quest its coun­cil not to en­dorse the pe­ti­tion.

² If the sub­ject of the pe­ti­tion can be presen­ted in the form of a pro­pos­al re­lat­ing to a mat­ter pending for con­sid­er­a­tion, the com­mit­tee shall re­port on the pe­ti­tion to the coun­cil when it is deal­ing with that busi­ness. The com­mit­tee shall de­cide either to sub­mit a pro­pos­al on the mat­ter or dis­pense with a pro­pos­al. The pe­ti­tion shall be aban­doned without a coun­cil de­cision as soon as the mat­ter has been dealt with.

³ Fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the con­sid­er­a­tion of a pe­ti­tion, the Par­lia­ment­ary Ser­vices shall no­ti­fy the pe­ti­tion­ers as to wheth­er their con­cerns have been taken in­to ac­count.

⁴ The pres­id­ents of the com­mit­tees re­spons­ible for the pre­lim­in­ary ex­am­in­a­tion in each coun­cil may re­spond dir­ectly to a pe­ti­tion if:

a.

its aim can­not be achieved by a par­lia­ment­ary ini­ti­at­ive, a pro­ced­ur­al re­quest or a pro­pos­al;

b.

its con­tent is clearly ab­surd, quer­ulous or of­fens­ive.