Ordinance
to the Federal Act on the Privileges, Immunities and
Facilities and the Financial Subsidies
granted by Switzerland as a Host State
(Host State Ordinance, HSO)

¹ The fol­low­ing in­sti­tu­tion­al be­ne­fi­ciar­ies are ac­cor­ded all, or, in agree­ment with the in­sti­tu­tion­al be­ne­fi­ciary con­cerned, only cer­tain of the priv­ileges, im­munit­ies and fa­cil­it­ies set out in Art­icle 3 HSA in ac­cord­ance with in­ter­na­tion­al law and in­ter­na­tion­al prac­tice:⁹

a.

in­ter­gov­ern­ment­al or­gan­isa­tions;

b.

in­ter­na­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions;

c.

dip­lo­mat­ic mis­sions;

d.

con­su­lar posts;

e.

per­man­ent mis­sions or oth­er rep­res­ent­a­tions to in­ter­gov­ern­ment­al or­gan­isa­tions;

f.

spe­cial mis­sions;

g.

in­ter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences;

h.

sec­ret­ari­ats or oth­er bod­ies es­tab­lished un­der an in­ter­na­tion­al treaty;

i.

in­de­pend­ent com­mis­sions;

j.

in­ter­na­tion­al courts;

k.

ar­bit­ra­tion tribunals.

² Dip­lo­mat­ic mis­sions and per­man­ent mis­sions or oth­er rep­res­ent­a­tions to in­ter­gov­ern­ment­al or­gan­isa­tions are gov­erned in par­tic­u­lar by the Vi­enna Con­ven­tion of 18 April 1961¹⁰ on Dip­lo­mat­ic Re­la­tions.

³ Con­su­lar posts are gov­erned in par­tic­u­lar by the Vi­enna Con­ven­tion of 24 April 1963¹¹ on Con­su­lar Re­la­tions.

⁴ Spe­cial mis­sions are gov­erned in par­tic­u­lar by the Con­ven­tion of 8 Decem­ber 1969¹² on Spe­cial Mis­sions.

⁵ Priv­ileges, im­munit­ies and fa­cil­it­ies are gran­ted to in­de­pend­ent com­mis­sions for the sched­uled dur­a­tion of their activ­ity. The grant­ing of priv­ileges, im­munit­ies and fa­cil­it­ies may be ex­ten­ded for a lim­ited peri­od if the cir­cum­stances so war­rant, in par­tic­u­lar if the in­de­pend­ent com­mis­sion’s man­date is ex­ten­ded or if it re­quires ad­di­tion­al time to draw up and pub­lish its re­port.