Government and
Administration Organisation Ordinance
(GAOO)

¹ In ac­cord­ance with the or­gan­isa­tion­al le­gis­la­tion, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall elect the mem­bers of the man­age­ment bod­ies of fed­er­al pub­lic or­gan­isa­tions, in par­tic­u­lar the mem­bers of the man­age­ment boards of fed­er­al in­sti­tu­tions.⁴⁴

^1bis Where the elec­tion is the re­spons­ib­il­ity of an­oth­er elect­or­al body or or­gan­isa­tion­al le­gis­la­tion un­der pub­lic or private law provides for the rep­res­ent­a­tion of the Con­fed­er­a­tion on a man­age­ment body, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ap­point or elect the mem­bers of the cor­res­pond­ing man­age­ment body, in par­tic­u­lar the rep­res­ent­at­ives of the Con­fed­er­a­tion to be elec­ted by the gen­er­al meet­ing and the rep­res­ent­at­ives to be ap­poin­ted in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 762 and 926 of the Code of Ob­lig­a­tions⁴⁵.⁴⁶

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall draw up a re­quire­ments pro­file for each or­gan­isa­tion con­tain­ing the per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al re­quire­ments for a rep­res­ent­at­ive. It shall ex­er­cise its right to elect and ap­point on the basis of this re­quire­ment pro­file.