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

¹ If own­ers or li­censees of copy­right or re­lated rights en­titled to in­sti­tute pro­ceed­ings or an au­thor­ised col­lect­ive rights man­age­ment or­gan­isa­tion have clear in­dic­a­tions that goods the dis­tri­bu­tion of which would vi­ol­ate le­gis­la­tion ap­plic­able in Switzer­land on copy­right or re­lated rights may im­min­ently be brought in­to or taken out of Swiss cus­toms ter­rit­ory, they may re­quest the FO­CBS in writ­ing to re­fuse the re­lease of the goods.⁹⁰

² The ap­plic­ants must provide all the rel­ev­ant in­form­a­tion avail­able to them that is re­quired by the FO­CBS in or­der to de­cide on the ap­plic­a­tion. In par­tic­u­lar, they shall provide a pre­cise de­scrip­tion of the goods.

³ The FO­CBS makes the fi­nal de­cision on the ap­plic­a­tion. It may charge a fee to cov­er the ad­min­is­trat­ive costs.⁹¹