Federal Act
on the National Languages and
Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Act, LangA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 5 October 2007 (Status as 1 February 2021)


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Art. 7 Comprehensibility

1 The fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies shall en­deav­our to en­sure that their lan­guage is ap­pro­pri­ate, clear and com­pre­hens­ible and shall en­sure that gender-ap­pro­pri­ate word­ing is used.

2 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall take the meas­ures re­quired; in par­tic­u­lar, it shall ar­range for the ba­sic and ad­vanced train­ing of em­ploy­ees and the pro­vi­sion of the re­quired aids.5

5 The amend­ment in ac­cord­ance with the FA of 20 June 2014 on Con­tinu­ing Edu­ca­tion and Train­ing, in force since 1 Jan. 2017, relates to the French and Itali­an ver­sions only (AS 2016 689; BBl 20133729).

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