Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights
(Copyright Act, CopA)

¹The Ar­bit­ra­tion Com­mis­sion takes its de­cisions with a quor­um of five mem­bers: the chair­man, two co-ar­bit­rat­ors and two ad­di­tion­al ar­bit­rat­ors.

²The chair­man des­ig­nates the two ad­di­tion­al ar­bit­rat­ors for each item of busi­ness, who must be com­pet­ent in the mat­ter at hand. One of the ad­di­tion­al ar­bit­rat­ors is des­ig­nated on a nom­in­a­tion by the col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tions and one on a nom­in­a­tion by the users’ as­so­ci­ations.

³ The fact that a tech­nic­ally com­pet­ent mem­ber be­longs to a col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion or to a users’ as­so­ci­ation does not in it­self con­sti­tute grounds for his re­cus­al.