Swiss Criminal Code

¹ Un­less the law provides oth­er­wise, a mon­et­ary pen­alty amounts to a min­im­um of three and a max­im­um of 180 daily pen­alty units.²³ The court de­cides on the num­ber ac­cord­ing to the culp­ab­il­ity of the of­fend­er.

² A daily pen­alty unit nor­mally amounts to a min­im­um of 30 and a max­im­um of 3000 francs. By way of ex­cep­tion, if the of­fend­er’s per­son­al or fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances so re­quire, the value of the daily pen­alty unit may be re­duced to 10 francs. The court de­cides on the value of the daily pen­alty unit ac­cord­ing to the per­son­al and fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances of the of­fend­er at the time of con­vic­tion, and in par­tic­u­lar ac­cord­ing to his in­come and cap­it­al, liv­ing ex­penses, any main­ten­ance or sup­port ob­lig­a­tions and the min­im­um sub­sist­ence level.²⁴

³ The au­thor­it­ies of the Con­fed­er­a­tion, the can­tons and the com­munes shall provide the in­form­a­tion re­quired to de­term­ine the daily pen­alty unit.

⁴ The num­ber and value of the daily pen­alty units must be stated in the judg­ment.