Ordinance
on the National Languages and Understanding between the Linguistic Communities
(Languages Ordinance, LangO)

(Art. 20 para. 2 LangA and Art. 4 para. 2 let. e FPA⁹)

¹ The rep­res­ent­a­tion of lin­guist­ic com­munit­ies in the fed­er­al ad­min­is­trat­ive units re­ferred to in Art­icle 1 para­graph 1 let­ters a and b of the FPersO¹⁰, with the ex­cep­tion of the ETH Do­main, must aim to achieve the fol­low­ing ranges, in­clud­ing for man­age­ment po­s­i­tions:

a.

Ger­man: 68.5 – 70.5%

b.

French: 21.5 – 23.5%

c.

Itali­an: 6.5 – 8.5%

d.

Ro­man­sh: 0.5 – 1.0%

² Rep­res­ent­a­tion of the Ro­mance lan­guage com­munit­ies may ex­ceed the up­per lim­it of the ranges spe­cified in para­graph 1 let­ters b to d.

³ When re­cruit­ing per­son­nel, the em­ploy­ers re­ferred to in para­graph 1 shall en­sure that can­did­ates from all lin­guist­ic com­munit­ies pro­gress from the preselec­tion phase to the in­ter­views, provided they ful­fil the ob­ject­ive cri­ter­ia. Where can­did­ates have equal qual­i­fic­a­tions, pri­or­ity shall be giv­en to those who be­long to a lin­guist­ic com­munity that is un­der­rep­res­en­ted in the ad­min­is­trat­ive unit in ques­tion; this ap­plies in par­tic­u­lar for man­age­ment po­s­i­tions.