Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall be­gin pro­ceed­ings to is­sue a sub­sequent ju­di­cial de­cision ex of­fi­cio un­less fed­er­al law provides oth­er­wise. It shall sub­mit the rel­ev­ant files and its ap­plic­a­tion to the court.

² In all oth­er cases, the per­son con­victed or any oth­er en­titled per­sons may re­quest pro­ceed­ings be ini­ti­ated by fil­ing a writ­ten and jus­ti­fied ap­plic­a­tion.

³ The court shall ex­am­ine wheth­er the re­quire­ments for the sub­sequent ju­di­cial de­cision are ful­filled, and shall, if ne­ces­sary, add to the files or ar­range for fur­ther en­quir­ies to be car­ried out by the po­lice.

⁴ It shall give the per­sons and au­thor­it­ies con­cerned the op­por­tun­ity to com­ment on the in­ten­ded de­cision and to sub­mit ap­plic­a­tions.

⁵ The pro­ceed­ings be­fore the court (Art. 363 para. 1) shall oth­er­wise be gov­erned mu­tatis mutandis by the pro­vi­sions on the tri­al at first in­stance; Art­icle 390 ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis to the writ­ten pro­ced­ure.²⁵²