Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹Sub­mis­sions may be made in writ­ing or or­ally on re­cord. Writ­ten sub­mis­sions must be dated and signed.

²In the case of elec­tron­ic sub­mis­sion, the sub­mis­sion and its en­clos­ures must bear a qual­i­fied elec­tron­ic sig­na­ture in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 2016¹ on Elec­tron­ic Sig­na­tures. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late:

a.

the format for sub­mis­sions and their at­tach­ments;

b.

the meth­od of trans­mis­sion;

c.

the re­quire­ments for re­quest­ing the sub­mis­sion of doc­u­ments in pa­per form in the event of tech­nic­al prob­lems.²

³Pro­ced­ur­al acts are not oth­er­wise sub­ject to any form­al re­quire­ments un­less this Code provides oth­er­wise.

⁴The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may re­ject il­legible, in­com­pre­hens­ible, im­prop­er or in­co­her­ent sub­mis­sions; they shall fix a dead­line for the re­vi­sion of the sub­mis­sion and give no­tice that the sub­mis­sion if not re­vised, will not be con­sidered.