Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons may stip­u­late that the rul­ing abandon­ing pro­ceed­ings be ap­proved by the Of­fice of the Chief Can­ton­al Pro­sec­utor.

² The parties may con­test the rul­ing abandon­ing pro­ceed­ings with the ob­jec­tions court with­in 10 days.

³ If the rul­ing abandon­ing pro­ceed­ings in­cludes a de­cision on for­feit­ure, a re­jec­tion may be filed against that de­cision. The re­jec­tion pro­ced­ure is gov­erned by the pro­vi­sions on sum­mary pen­alty or­ders. A court de­cision shall be is­sued in the form of a de­cree or a rul­ing.²³⁸