Federal Act
on Unfair Competition
(Unfair Competition Act, UCA)

¹ The re­spons­ible can­ton­al bod­ies may ob­tain in­form­a­tion and re­quest doc­u­ments where this is re­quired to es­tab­lish the cir­cum­stances of a case.

² The ob­lig­a­tion to provide in­form­a­tion ap­plies to:

a.

per­sons and busi­nesses that of­fer goods for sale to con­sumers or that man­u­fac­ture, pur­chase or trade in such goods;

b.

per­sons and busi­nesses that of­fer, provide, broker or make use of ser­vices;

c.

private sec­tor or­gan­isa­tions;

d.

or­gan­isa­tions of na­tion­al or re­gion­al im­port­ance which, in ac­cord­ance with their art­icles, are ded­ic­ated to con­sumer pro­tec­tion.

³ The ob­lig­a­tion to provide in­form­a­tion ceases to ap­ply if the right to re­fuse to testi­fy un­der Art­icle 42 of the Fed­er­al Act of 4 Decem­ber 1947⁴² on Fed­er­al Civil Pro­ced­ure ap­plies.

⁴ The pro­vi­sions of the Crim­in­al Pro­ced­ure Code of 5 Oc­to­ber 2007⁴³ and the can­ton­al pro­vi­sions on ad­min­is­trat­ive pro­ced­ure are re­served.⁴⁴