Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The private claimant may be ordered to pay pro­ced­ur­al costs in­curred as a res­ult of his or her ap­plic­a­tions on civil mat­ters if:

a.

the pro­ceed­ings are aban­doned or the ac­cused is ac­quit­ted;

b.

the private claimant with­draws the civil claim be­fore the con­clu­sion of the main hear­ing be­fore the court of first in­stance;

c.

the civil pro­ceed­ings are dis­missed or re­mit­ted to the civil courts.

² In the case of of­fences pro­sec­uted only on com­plaint, pro­ced­ur­al costs may be im­posed on the com­plain­ant where he or she has wil­fully or through gross neg­li­gence brought about the pro­ceed­ings or has ob­struc­ted their con­duct, or on the private claimant where:

a.

the pro­ceed­ings are aban­doned or the ac­cused is ac­quit­ted; and

b.

the ac­cused is not li­able to pay costs in terms of Art­icle 426 para­graph 2.

³ If the com­plain­ant with­draws the crim­in­al com­plaint as part of a set­tle­ment ar­ranged by the pub­lic pro­sec­utor, the Con­fed­er­a­tion or the can­ton shall nor­mally bear the pro­ced­ur­al costs.

⁴ An agree­ment between the com­plain­ant and the ac­cused on who is to bear the costs in the event that the crim­in­al com­plaint is with­drawn re­quires the ap­prov­al of the au­thor­ity that or­ders the case to be aban­doned. The agree­ment may not pre­ju­dice the Con­fed­er­a­tion or the can­ton.