Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ A com­mit­tee is not es­tab­lished if the task can be more ap­pro­pri­ately car­ried out by a unit of the cent­ral Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion or an or­gan­isa­tion or per­son from out­side the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil es­tab­lishes ex­tra-par­lia­ment­ary com­mis­sions and elects their mem­bers.

³ The mem­bers are ap­poin­ted for a term of of­fice of four years.

⁴ If a seat be­comes va­cant, a re­place­ment is elec­ted.