Government and
Administration Organisation Ordinance
(GAOO)

(Art. 2 par. 1 and 2 as well as Art. 43 and 44 GAOA)

¹ The Cent­ral Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion com­prises:

a.

the de­part­ments and the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery;

b.

the gen­er­al sec­ret­ari­ats of the de­part­ments and their oth­er sub­di­vi­sions;

c.

the groups;

d.¹⁸

the fed­er­al of­fices and their sub­di­vi­sions.

² Ad­min­is­trat­ive units in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ters c and d may also have oth­er names.

³ The ad­min­is­trat­ive units lis­ted in para­graph 1 let­ters b-d shall be sub­or­din­ate to a de­part­ment. They are bound by the de­part­ment’s dir­ect­ives.

⁴ Fed­er­al of­fices may be com­bined in­to groups if this im­proves the man­age­ab­il­ity of the de­part­ment.