Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall ex­am­ine wheth­er:

a.

the in­dict­ment and the files have been presen­ted in the prop­er man­ner;

b.

the pro­ced­ur­al re­quire­ments are ful­filled;

c.

there are any pro­ced­ur­al im­ped­i­ments.

² If it is de­term­ined in this ex­am­in­a­tion or later in the pro­ceed­ings that a judg­ment can­not be is­sued at this time, the court shall sus­pend the pro­ceed­ings. If re­quired, it shall re­turn the in­dict­ment to the pub­lic pro­sec­utor for amend­ment or cor­rec­tion.

³ The court shall de­cide wheth­er a sus­pen­ded case re­mains pending be­fore it.

⁴ If it is per­man­ently im­possible to is­sue a judg­ment, the court shall aban­don the pro­ceed­ings after grant­ing the parties and oth­er third parties ad­versely af­fected by aban­don­ment the right to be heard. Art­icle 320 ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis.

⁵ If the pro­ceed­ings are only aban­doned in re­la­tion to spe­cif­ic charges on the in­dict­ment aban­doned, the aban­don­ment or­der may be is­sued with the judg­ment.