Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil sets out the prin­ciples for main­tain­ing in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions in the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

² Deal­ings with the can­ton­al gov­ern­ments are the re­spons­ib­il­ity of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the heads of de­part­ment.

³ The dir­ect­ors of the groups and of­fices deal dir­ectly with oth­er fed­er­al, can­ton­al and com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies and pub­lic of­fices as well as with private in­di­vidu­als, ac­cord­ing to their re­spons­ib­il­it­ies.