Government and
Administration Organisation Ordinance
(GAOO)

(Art. 6 para. 1, 25 para. 2 let. a, 32 let. a, 36 para. 1, 51, 52 GAOA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­cide on the pri­or­it­ies, aims and means re­quired for plan­ning.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil's plans com­prise:

a.

gen­er­al plans that en­com­pass all fed­er­al policy fields; these in­clude gov­ern­ment policy guidelines pur­su­ant to Art­icle 18 and the an­nu­al ob­ject­ives of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil pur­su­ant to Art­icle 19 as sec­tor­al plans and fin­an­cial plans pur­su­ant to the Fin­an­cial Budget Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 1989⁶⁹and the Fin­an­cial Budget Or­din­ance of 11 June 1990⁷⁰;

b.

spe­cif­ic plans for in­di­vidu­al fed­er­al policy fields or parts there­of;

c.

fur­ther plans as re­quired.

³ The sec­tor­al and fin­an­cial plans shall be co­ordin­ated as far as pos­sible in terms of tim­ing and con­tent. The in­di­vidu­al areas of re­spons­ib­il­ity are grouped in­to policy fields.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Chan­cellery shall pre­pare the sec­tor­al plans in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 let­ter a. The Fed­er­al Fin­ance Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FFA)⁷¹ shall pre­pare the budget and fin­an­cial plan. In do­ing so, they work with the de­part­ments.

⁵ The plans of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the de­part­ments are bind­ing for their sub­or­din­ate ad­min­is­trat­ive units.