Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ Where the Fed­er­al As­sembly is re­spons­ible for ap­prov­ing the con­clu­sion of or amend­ment to an in­ter­na­tion­al treaty, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may de­term­ine or agree the pro­vi­sion­al ap­plic­a­tion of the treaty without the ap­prov­al of the Fed­er­al As­sembly when it is ne­ces­sary to safe­guard im­port­ant Swiss in­terests and the mat­ter is of par­tic­u­lar ur­gency.¹⁴

^1bis It shall re­frain from ap­ply­ing the treaty pro­vi­sion­ally if the com­pet­ent com­mit­tees of both Coun­cils are against do­ing so.¹⁵

² The pro­vi­sion­al ap­plic­a­tion of an in­ter­na­tion­al treaty ends if the Fed­er­al Coun­cil fails to present the Fed­er­al As­sembly with a draft of a fed­er­al de­cree on the treaty in ques­tion with­in six months.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall no­ti­fy the parties to the treaty of the ter­min­a­tion of the pro­vi­sion­al ap­plic­a­tion.