Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor may sub­mit writ­ten ap­plic­a­tions to the court or be rep­res­en­ted by a pro­sec­utor in court.

² It is neither bound by the leg­al as­sess­ment nor by the ap­plic­a­tions set out in the in­dict­ment.

³ If it re­quests a cus­todi­al sen­tence of more than one year or a cus­todi­al meas­ure, it must be rep­res­en­ted in court by a pro­sec­utor.

⁴ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may re­quire the pub­lic pro­sec­utor to be rep­res­en­ted by a pro­sec­utor in oth­er cases if he or she re­gards it as ne­ces­sary.

⁵ If the pub­lic pro­sec­utor is not present at the tri­al, des­pite be­ing re­quired to be rep­res­en­ted, the tri­al shall be post­poned.