Ordinance
on Swiss Persons and Institutions Abroad
(Swiss Abroad Ordinance, SAO)

(Art. 45 SAA)

¹ In the event of child ab­duc­tions, the FD­FA may provide the fol­low­ing as­sist­ance to the par­ent or leg­al guard­i­an con­cerned:

a.

ad­vising on the sup­port op­por­tun­it­ies offered by the FD­FA;

b.

provid­ing in­form­a­tion on the po­ten­tial course of ac­tion in Switzer­land and abroad;

c.

provid­ing ad­dresses of loc­al char­it­ies, con­tact per­sons and leg­al pro­fes­sion­als;

d.

work­ing with one of the or­gan­isa­tions op­er­at­ing in this area;

e.

try­ing to con­tact the ab­duct­ing par­ent and the chil­dren;

f.

car­ry­ing out dip­lo­mat­ic in­ter­ven­tions with the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies in the coun­try to which the child has been ab­duc­ted.

² The pro­vi­sions of the fol­low­ing agree­ments shall re­main re­served:

a.

European Con­ven­tion of 20 May 1980⁸ on the Re­cog­ni­tion and En­force­ment of De­cisions con­cern­ing Cus­tody of Chil­dren and on Res­tor­a­tion of Cus­tody of Chil­dren;

b.

Con­ven­tion of 25 Oc­to­ber 1980⁹ on the Civil As­pects of In­ter­na­tion­al Child Ab­duc­tion;

c.

Hag­ue Con­ven­tion of 19 Oc­to­ber 1996¹⁰ on the Pro­tec­tion of Chil­dren.