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

¹ The Of­fice of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil and the Of­fice of the Coun­cil of States con­sti­tute the Con­fer­ence for Co­ordin­a­tion.

² The Con­fer­ence for Co­ordin­a­tion has the fol­low­ing du­ties:

a.⁴⁵

It de­cides on the cal­en­dar week in which the or­din­ary and ex­traordin­ary ses­sions are held.

b.

It deals with busi­ness between the two coun­cils and between the coun­cils and the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.

c.⁴⁶

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d.

It elects the Gen­er­al Sec­ret­ary of the Fed­er­al As­sembly. The elec­tion must be con­firmed by the United Fed­er­al As­sembly.

e.

It ap­proves the form­a­tion of new par­lia­ment­ary groups in ac­cord­ance with the cri­ter­ia stated in Art­icle 61.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may par­ti­cip­ate in its meet­ings in an ad­vis­ory ca­pa­city.

⁴ The de­cisions of the Con­fer­ence for Co­ordin­a­tion re­quire the agree­ment of the Of­fices of the Na­tion­al Coun­cil and of the Coun­cil of States. Elec­tions in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 let­ter d shall take place by an ab­so­lute ma­jor­ity of the vot­ing mem­bers.

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