Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Judg­ments and oth­er de­cisions con­clud­ing pro­ceed­ings con­tain:

a.

an in­tro­duc­tion;

b.

a state­ment of the grounds;

c.

con­clu­sions;

d.

if sub­ject to ap­peal: in­struc­tions on ap­pel­late rem­ed­ies.

² The in­tro­duc­tion con­tains:

a.

de­tails of the crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity and its mem­bers who par­ti­cip­ated in mak­ing the de­cision;

b.

the date of the de­cision;

c.

suf­fi­cient de­tails of the parties and of their leg­al agents;

d.

in the case of judg­ments, the fi­nal sub­mis­sions made by the parties.

³ The state­ment of the grounds con­tains:

a.

in the case of judg­ments: an ap­prais­al of the fac­tu­al and leg­al is­sues re­lat­ing to the con­duct in­crim­in­at­ing the ac­cused, and an ex­plan­a­tion of why any sanc­tions or in­cid­ent­al leg­al or­ders were im­posed and the de­cision on costs or com­pens­a­tion;

b.

in the case of oth­er de­cisions con­clud­ing pro­ceed­ings: the reas­ons for con­clud­ing the pro­ceed­ings.

⁴ The con­clu­sions con­tain:

a.

de­tails of the stat­utory pro­vi­sions;

b.

in the case of judg­ments: the ver­dict and de­cisions on re­lated sanc­tions, costs and com­pens­a­tion and any civil claims;

c.

in the case of oth­er de­cisions con­clud­ing pro­ceed­ings: the or­der con­clud­ing the pro­ceed­ings;

d.

the sub­sequent de­cisions of the court;

e.

the de­cision on the in­cid­ent­al leg­al or­ders;

f.

the de­tails of the per­sons and au­thor­it­ies who are to re­ceive a copy of the de­cision or of the con­clu­sions.