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

¹ The mem­bers of the com­mit­tees and their chair­per­sons (pres­id­ent and vice-pres­id­ent) shall be ap­poin­ted by the of­fice of the rel­ev­ant coun­cil.

² Un­less oth­er­wise provided by this Act, the chair­per­sons of joint com­mit­tees of both coun­cils and of com­mit­tees of the United Fed­er­al As­sembly shall be elec­ted by the Con­fer­ence for Co­ordin­a­tion. The pres­id­ent and the vice-pres­id­ent may not be­long to the same coun­cil.

^2bis The Conference for Coordination ensures that die Presidents of the Control Committees of both councils do not belong to the same parliamentary group.⁵⁶

³ The com­pos­i­tion of the com­mit­tees and the al­loc­a­tion of seats among the com­mit­tee chair­per­sons are de­term­ined by the strengths of the par­lia­ment­ary groups in the rel­ev­ant coun­cil. Wherever pos­sible, ap­pro­pri­ate ac­count should be taken of the of­fi­cial lan­guages and re­gions of the coun­try.

⁴ The term of of­fice of the mem­bers of the stand­ing com­mit­tees is de­term­ined by the re­spect­ive reg­u­la­tions of the coun­cils.