Federal Act
on the Compilations of Federal Legislation
and the Federal Gazette
(Publications Act, PublA)

¹ The fol­low­ing shall be pub­lished in the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette:

a.

dis­patches and drafts of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil on en­act­ments of the Fed­er­al As­sembly;

b.²²

re­ports and drafts of Fed­er­al As­sembly com­mit­tees on en­act­ments of the Fed­er­al As­sembly and the re­lated Fed­er­al Coun­cil state­ments;

c.²³

…

d.

fed­er­al de­crees on amend­ments to the Con­sti­tu­tion as well as on the ap­prov­al of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 140 para­graph 1 let­ter b of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion;

e.

fed­er­al acts and fed­er­al de­crees sub­ject to an op­tion­al ref­er­en­dum;

f.

simple fed­er­al de­crees that are not pub­lished in the AS in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 2 let­ter h;

f^bis.²⁴

Fed­er­al Coun­cil dir­ect­ives;

g.

fur­ther texts that must be in­cluded in ac­cord­ance with fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion.

² In ad­di­tion, the fol­low­ing may be pub­lished in the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette:

a.

re­ports, state­ments or agree­ments of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, Fed­er­al As­sembly com­mit­tees or the fed­er­al courts, un­less these must be pub­lished un­der para­graph 1;

b.

Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­crees and an­nounce­ments;

c.

de­crees, dir­ect­ives and an­nounce­ments from the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion and from or­gan­isa­tions and per­sons un­der pub­lic or private law that are as­signed ad­min­is­trat­ive du­ties but do not form part of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion.²⁵

³ If it seems ap­pro­pri­ate, the pub­lic­a­tion may be lim­ited to the title with the ref­er­ence or source (Art. 5).

⁴ For the cor­rec­tion of texts, Art­icle 10 ap­plies by ana­logy.