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

¹A per­son acts un­fairly to­wards a cus­tom­er in Switzer­land in par­tic­u­lar if, in long-dis­tance trad­ing, without ob­ject­ive jus­ti­fic­a­tion, on the basis of the cus­tom­er’s na­tion­al­ity, place of res­id­ence, place of es­tab­lish­ment, the re­gistered of­fice of the cus­tom­er’s pay­ment ser­vice pro­vider or the place of is­sue of the cus­tom­er’s means of pay­ment:

a.

they dis­crim­in­ate in re­la­tion to the price or terms of pay­ment;

b.

they block or re­strict the cus­tom­er’s ac­cess to an on­line portal; or

c.

they re­dir­ect the cus­tom­er to a ver­sion of the on­line portal oth­er than the one ori­gin­ally vis­ited without the cus­tom­er’s con­sent.

² This pro­vi­sion does not ap­ply to non-eco­nom­ic ser­vices of gen­er­al in­terest; fin­an­cial ser­vices; elec­tron­ic com­mu­nic­a­tion ser­vices; pub­lic trans­port ser­vices; ser­vices provided by tem­por­ary em­ploy­ment agen­cies; health­care ser­vices; games of chance that re­quire a mon­et­ary stake, in­clud­ing lot­ter­ies, games of chance in casi­nos and bet­ting; private se­cur­ity ser­vices; so­cial ser­vices of any nature; ser­vices con­nec­ted with the ex­er­cise of of­fi­cial au­thor­ity; activ­it­ies of not­ar­ies and court of­ficers ap­poin­ted by pub­lic au­thor­it­ies; au­dio-visu­al ser­vices.