Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If the pro­ceed­ings are pub­lic, the court shall give no­tice of the judg­ment or­ally on con­clu­sion of its de­lib­er­a­tions and state the grounds in brief.

² The court shall provide the parties with a writ­ten copy of the con­clu­sions at the end of the main hear­ing or serve it on the parties with­in 5 days.

³ If the court is un­able to is­sue the judg­ment im­me­di­ately, it shall do so as soon as pos­sible and give no­tice of the judg­ment in re­arranged main hear­ing. If in such an event the parties waive their right to have the judg­ment is­sued pub­licly, the court shall serve the con­clu­sions of the judg­ment on them im­me­di­ately after it has been reached.

⁴ If the court has to state grounds for the judg­ment, it shall serve the judg­ment with a full state­ment of grounds on the ac­cused and the pub­lic pro­sec­utor with­in 60 days, or by way of ex­cep­tion 90 days. The oth­er parties shall be served only with those parts of the judg­ment in which their ap­plic­a­tions are men­tioned.

⁵ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity shall give no­tice of simple de­crees or rul­ings dir­ect­ing pro­ceed­ings to the parties in writ­ing or or­ally.

⁶ No­tice of de­cisions shall be giv­en to oth­er au­thor­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with fed­er­al and can­ton­al law, no­tice of ap­peal de­cisions shall also be giv­en to the lower court, and no­tice of leg­ally bind­ing de­cisions shall if ne­ces­sary be giv­en to the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures and to the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the re­gister of con­vic­tions.