Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ The de­part­ments shall man­age the fol­low­ing with an­nu­al ser­vice agree­ments:

a.

the ad­min­is­trat­ive units of the cent­ral fed­er­al ad­min­is­tra­tion;

b.

the ad­min­is­trat­ive units of the de­cent­ral­ised fed­er­al ad­min­is­tra­tion, if they do not keep their own ac­counts.

² The Swiss Fed­er­al Audit Of­fice is ex­emp­ted from man­age­ment by ser­vice agree­ment. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for fur­ther ex­cep­tions.

³ Where groups and of­fices man­age ad­min­is­trat­ive units with their own glob­al budgets, the de­part­ment may del­eg­ate the power to them to con­clude the ser­vice agree­ments with these ad­min­is­trat­ive units.

⁴ In the ser­vice agree­ment, the tasks of the ad­min­is­trat­ive units are set out ac­cord­ing to pro­jects and ser­vice groups. They must be giv­en meas­ur­able goals.

⁵ The ad­min­is­trat­ive units re­port an­nu­ally on the achieve­ment of their goals. At the start of each le­gis­lature plan, they shall re­view the struc­ture and goals of their ser­vice groups.