Government and
Administration Organisation Ordinance
(GAOO)

¹ When pre­par­ing pro­pos­als, the lead of­fice shall in­vite jointly in­ter­ested ad­min­is­trat­ive units to com­ment, set­ting ap­pro­pri­ate dead­lines. In jus­ti­fied ex­cep­tion­al cases, the of­fice con­sulta­tion pro­ced­ure may be waived or may be lim­ited to a nar­row group of ad­dress­ees.

^1bis In the case of con­fid­en­tial and secret Fed­er­al Coun­cil busi­ness, the ad­min­is­trat­ive units re­spons­ible for ad­vance leg­al ex­am­in­a­tion shall be con­sul­ted on im­port­ant and con­ten­tious leg­al is­sues be­fore the Fed­er­al Coun­cil meet­ing if pos­sible.⁷

² Dif­fer­ences shall be re­solved as far as pos­sible through the of­fice con­sulta­tion pro­ced­ure; the lead de­part­ment shall re­port on this to the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.

³ The ad­min­is­trat­ive units that have a tech­nic­al con­nec­tion to the busi­ness or that are re­spons­ible for the as­sess­ment of fin­an­cial, leg­al or form­al as­pects are con­sidered to be co-in­ter­ested.