Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The ac­cused shall bear the pro­ced­ur­al costs if he or she is con­victed. Ex­emp­ted there­from are the costs of the duty de­fence law­yer; Art­icle 135 para­graph 4 is re­served.

² If the pro­ceed­ings are aban­doned or the ac­cused ac­quit­ted, all or part of the pro­ced­ur­al costs may be im­posed on the ac­cused if he or she has un­law­fully or culp­ably caused the pro­ceed­ings to be ini­ti­ated or has ob­struc­ted their con­duct.

³ The ac­cused shall not bear the pro­ced­ur­al costs that:

a.

the Con­fed­er­a­tion or the can­ton has in­curred through un­ne­ces­sary or flawed pro­ced­ur­al acts;

b.

are in­curred for trans­la­tions that were ne­ces­sary be­cause the ac­cused speaks a for­eign lan­guage.

⁴ The ac­cused shall bear the costs of the private claimant's leg­al aid rep­res­ent­at­ive only if he or she has the fin­an­cial means to do so.

⁵ The pro­vi­sions of this Art­icle ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis to parties to sep­ar­ate meas­ures pro­ced­ures if they are un­suc­cess­ful.