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

¹ A per­son acts un­fairly if they:

a.

of­fer, prom­ise or grant an un­due ad­vant­age to an em­ploy­ee, a com­pany mem­ber, an agent or an­oth­er aux­il­i­ary per­son of a third party in the private sec­tor in con­nec­tion with the lat­ter's of­fi­cial or busi­ness activ­ity in re­turn for an act or omis­sion in breach of the lat­ter's duty or sub­ject to their dis­cre­tion for the former's be­ne­fit or for the be­ne­fit of a third party;

b.²⁴

as an em­ploy­ee, a com­pany mem­ber, an agent or an­oth­er aux­il­i­ary per­son of a third party in the private sec­tor so­li­cit the of­fer or prom­ise of or ac­cept an un­due ad­vant­age in con­nec­tion with their of­fi­cial or busi­ness activ­ity in re­turn for an act or omis­sion in breach of their duty or sub­ject to their dis­cre­tion for their own be­ne­fit or for the be­ne­fit of a third party.

² Ad­vant­ages con­trac­tu­ally ap­proved by the third party and minor, so­cially cus­tom­ary ad­vant­ages are not un­due ad­vant­ages.