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

¹ Where, fol­low­ing con­sid­er­a­tion of a bill, there are dif­fer­ences between the coun­cils, the di­ver­gent de­cisions of each coun­cil shall be re­ferred to the oth­er coun­cil for con­sid­er­a­tion, un­til agree­ment is reached between the two coun­cils.

² Fol­low­ing the ini­tial con­sid­er­a­tion in each coun­cil, any fur­ther con­sid­er­a­tion shall be lim­ited ex­clus­ively to the is­sues on which no agree­ment has been reached.

³ A coun­cil may re­con­sider any oth­er is­sue only if this be­comes ne­ces­sary as a res­ult of de­cisions taken in the in­ter­ven­ing peri­od or if the pre­lim­in­ary con­sulta­tion com­mit­tees of both coun­cils move jointly for the is­sue to be re­con­sidered.