Government and
Administration Organisation Ordinance
(GAOO)

¹ In or­der to es­tab­lish the facts of the case, the in­vest­ig­at­ive body shall ob­tain evid­ence by the means set out in Art­icle 12 APA⁹⁵. However, there is no form­al ex­am­in­a­tion of wit­nesses in an ad­min­is­trat­ive in­vest­ig­a­tion.

² The fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies and em­ploy­ees in­volved in the ad­min­is­trat­ive in­vest­ig­a­tion are ob­liged to co­oper­ate in es­tab­lish­ing the facts of the case.

³ If it be­comes ap­par­ent in the course of an ad­min­is­trat­ive in­vest­ig­a­tion that in­form­a­tion covered by the duty of con­fid­en­ti­al­ity is re­quired from oth­er de­part­ments or from the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery, the in­vest­ig­at­ive body must first ob­tain the con­sent of the head of the de­part­ment or of the Fed­er­al Chan­cel­lor. In oth­er cases, Art­icle 14 ap­plies.

⁴ The au­thor­it­ies and per­sons in­volved in the ad­min­is­trat­ive in­vest­ig­a­tion shall have the op­por­tun­ity to in­spect all files that con­cern them and to com­ment on them (Art. 26-28 APA).

⁵ They have the right to be heard (Art. 29–33 APA).