Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor may seek an ap­pel­late rem­edy for the be­ne­fit or to the det­ri­ment of an ac­cused or a per­son con­victed.

² If the Con­fed­er­a­tion or can­tons provide for a chief pro­sec­utor or an at­tor­ney gen­er­al, they shall spe­cify which pub­lic pro­sec­utor is en­titled to seek an ap­pel­late rem­edy.

³ They shall spe­cify which au­thor­it­ies may seek an ap­pel­late rem­edy in con­tra­ven­tion pro­ceed­ings.

⁴ The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land may seek an ap­pel­late rem­edy in re­spect of can­ton­al de­cisions if:

a.

fed­er­al law provides that it or an­oth­er fed­er­al au­thor­ity must be no­ti­fied of the de­cision;

b.

it has re­ferred the crim­in­al case to the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies for in­vest­ig­a­tion and ad­ju­dic­a­tion.