Federal Act
on Administrative Procedure
(Administrative Procedure Act, APA)¹

¹ If it is not pos­sible to es­tab­lish the facts of the case suf­fi­ciently in any oth­er way, the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may or­der the ex­am­in­a­tion of wit­nesses:

a.

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and its de­part­ments;

b.

the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Justice³⁶ of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Justice and Po­lice;

c.³⁷

the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court;

d.³⁸

the com­pet­i­tion au­thor­it­ies in terms of the Car­tels Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 1995³⁹;

e.⁴⁰

the Swiss Fin­an­cial Mar­ket Su­per­vis­ory Au­thor­ity;

f.⁴¹

the Fed­er­al Audit Over­sight Au­thor­ity;

g.⁴²

the Fed­er­al Tax Ad­min­is­tra­tion,

h.⁴³

the Fed­er­al Ar­bit­ra­tion Com­mis­sion for the Ex­ploit­a­tion of Copy­rights and Re­lated Rights.

² The au­thor­it­ies men­tioned in para­graph 1 let­ters a, b, d–f and h shall in­struct a suit­ably qual­i­fied pub­lic of­fi­cial to ex­am­ine the wit­nesses.⁴⁴

³ The au­thor­it­ies men­tioned in para­graph 1 let­ter a may au­thor­ise per­sons out­side an au­thor­ity that has been in­struc­ted to con­duct an of­fi­cial in­vest­ig­a­tion to ex­am­ine the wit­nesses.