Government and
Administration Organisation Ordinance
(GAOO)

(Art. 14, 15, 17 GAOA)

¹ As a gen­er­al rule, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall take its de­cisions on the basis of writ­ten pro­pos­als and after the joint re­port­ing pro­ced­ure has been com­pleted (Art. 5).

² The mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and, for the busi­ness of the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery, the Fed­er­al Chan­cel­lor have the right to sub­mit pro­pos­als.

³ Where fed­er­al law des­ig­nates oth­er au­thor­it­ies or bod­ies that may sub­mit busi­ness or pro­pos­als to the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, this shall be done via the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery or the de­part­ment that has the closest tech­nic­al con­nec­tion with the busi­ness in ques­tion.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall hold spe­cial dis­cus­sions in par­tic­u­lar on mat­ters of far-reach­ing im­port­ance. If ne­ces­sary, it shall take in­ter­im de­cisions, de­term­ine the main fea­tures of a solu­tion and is­sue in­struc­tions to the com­pet­ent de­part­ment or the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery on how to deal with the mat­ter.

⁵ The de­part­ments or the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery may at any time, without form­al re­quest, send the Fed­er­al Coun­cil brief­ing notes on im­port­ant pro­cesses and activ­it­ies in their area of re­spons­ib­il­ity.