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

¹ The Fed­er­al As­sembly shall de­cide on ex­pendit­ures and in­vest­ments in the budget and its sup­ple­ments.³⁵ It shall de­cide on new or ex­ist­ing un­claimed ap­pro­pri­ation cred­its and pay­ment lim­its in the budget and its sup­ple­ments or by sep­ar­ate de­cree. It shall ap­prove the state ac­counts.

² It shall take its de­cisions in the form of a simple fed­er­al de­cree.

³ It shall stip­u­late the pur­pose and the amount of the cred­its in the de­cision on cred­its. It may also in­clude in its de­cision the gen­er­al con­di­tions for the use of the cred­it, the sched­ule for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the pro­ject and re­port­ing by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.³⁶