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

¹ The au­thor­ity may re­fuse to al­low the in­spec­tion of the files only if:

a.

es­sen­tial pub­lic in­terests of the Con­fed­er­a­tion or the can­tons, and in par­tic­u­lar the in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity of the Con­fed­er­a­tion, re­quire that secrecy be pre­served;

b.

es­sen­tial private in­terests, and in par­tic­u­lar those of re­spond­ents, re­quire that secrecy be pre­served;

c.

the in­terests of an of­fi­cial in­vest­ig­a­tion that has not yet been con­cluded so re­quires.

² Any re­fus­al to al­low in­spec­tion may only ex­tend to the doc­u­ments that must re­main con­fid­en­tial.

³ At no time may a party be re­fused the right to in­spect his own sub­mis­sions, the of­fi­cial doc­u­ments he has sub­mit­ted in evid­ence or rul­ings is­sued to him; he may be re­fused the right to in­spect the tran­scripts of his own state­ments only if the in­vest­ig­a­tion has not yet been con­cluded