Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall on re­quest or ex of­fi­cio con­sider wheth­er and when the of­fend­er should be re­leased on pa­role from the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the meas­ure or wheth­er the meas­ure should be ter­min­ated. It makes a de­cision on such mat­ters at least once each year. It shall first grant a hear­ing to the of­fend­er and ob­tain a re­port from the gov­ern­ing body of the rel­ev­ant in­sti­tu­tion.

² If the of­fend­er com­mit­ted an of­fence in terms of Art­icle 64 para­graph 1, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall reach its de­cision on the basis of the ex­pert opin­ion of an in­de­pend­ent spe­cial­ist and after hear­ing a com­mit­tee com­pris­ing rep­res­ent­at­ives of the pro­sec­u­tion ser­vices, the ex­e­cu­tion au­thor­it­ies and one or more psy­chi­at­rists. The spe­cial­ists and psy­chi­at­rists con­cerned must not be those re­spons­ible for the treat­ment or care of the of­fend­er.