Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ The heads of de­part­ment may au­thor­ise the fol­low­ing per­sons to sign par­tic­u­lar items of busi­ness in their name:

a.

sec­ret­ar­ies-gen­er­al or the per­sons rep­res­ent­ing them;

b.

mem­bers of seni­or man­age­ment in the groups and of­fices;

c.

fur­ther per­sons in the gen­er­al sec­ret­ari­at in re­la­tion to the de­part­ment’s re­spons­ib­il­it­ies as an ap­peal au­thor­ity.

² They may also au­thor­ise these per­sons to sign rul­ings.⁵¹

³ The dir­ect­ors of the groups and of­fices and the sec­ret­ar­ies gen­er­al de­term­ine who is to have sig­na­ture au­thor­isa­tion in their do­main. Con­tracts, rul­ings or oth­er form­al com­mit­ments by the Con­fed­er­a­tion for sums of more than 100,000 francs re­quire two sig­na­tures.⁵²

⁴ The open­ing of bank or postal ac­counts in Switzer­land re­quires an ad­di­tion­al sig­na­ture from the Fed­er­al Fin­ance Ad­min­is­tra­tion.⁵³

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may per­mit ex­cep­tions to the re­quire­ment for two sig­na­tures in spe­cial cases.⁵⁴