Federal Act on Administrative Procedure

¹In its judg­ment, the ap­pel­late au­thor­ity shall nor­mally im­pose the pro­ced­ur­al costs, con­sist­ing of the au­thor­ity's own fees, the re­gis­trar's fees and cash out­lays on the un­suc­cess­ful party. If the party is only partly un­suc­cess­ful, the pro­ced­ur­al costs shall be re­duced. In ex­cep­tion­al cases, they may be re­mit­ted.

²No pro­ced­ur­al costs shall be im­posed on lower in­stances or ap­pel­lant fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies that are un­suc­cess­ful; per­sons oth­er than fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies that file an ap­peal and are un­suc­cess­ful shall be re­quired to pay pro­ced­ur­al costs provided the dis­pute relates to the pe­cu­ni­ary in­terests of pub­lic cor­por­a­tions or autonom­ous in­sti­tu­tions.

³Pro­ced­ur­al costs may only be im­posed on a suc­cess­ful party if the costs were in­curred through a vi­ol­a­tion of pro­ced­ur­al du­ties.

⁴The ap­pel­late au­thor­ity, its pres­id­ent or the in­struct­ing judge shall ob­tain from the ap­pel­lant an ad­vance pay­ment to cov­er costs equi­val­ent to the ex­pec­ted level of the costs. The ap­pel­lant must be al­lowed a suit­able peri­od with­in which to make pay­ment, sub­ject to the case be­ing dis­missed without en­ter­ing in­to its sub­stance in the event of non-pay­ment. If there are spe­cial reas­ons, the ad­vance pay­ment to cov­er costs may be waived in full or in part.¹

^4bisThe au­thor­ity's own fees are gov­erned by the ex­tent and dif­fi­culty of the mat­ter in dis­pute, the form of the pro­ceed­ings and the fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances of the parties. They shall amount to:

a.

100-5000 francs in non-pe­cu­ni­ary dis­putes;

b.

100-50 000 francs in oth­er dis­putes.²

⁵The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the de­tails of the cal­cu­la­tion of the fees.³ Art­icle 16 para­graph 1 let­ter a of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court Act of 17 June 2005⁴ and Art­icle 73 of the Law En­force­ment Au­thor­it­ies Act of 19 March 2010⁵ are re­served.⁶